My little orphans...dirty faces, dirty clothes and shaggy hair, gathering fire wood. Really the picture was taken on a family hike after dinner...
Why is it that every child imagines they were adopted or orphaned? I remember thinking I had to be adopted when I was little. No such "luck". I was cut directly from the Damon-Davis cloth and the proof is all over my face and body--stamped into my genetic material. So, why did I wish I was an orphan? My childhood was fine and my family was waaaaay better than Miss Hannigan. (Daddy Warbucks, however, might have had a million or so legs up on my family.) Needless to say, I fantasized about being adopted and finding my "real" parents. I think it is something most kids do. As proof (or payback?) last night Wyatt asked me: "Can we play 'Baby Bus Stop'?" Not knowing what exactly this game was all about I went along. I started to pretend to be a bus driver picking up babies for school. "No, Mom. You are just a lady waiting at a bus stop. " Lorien began to clarify "And your bus is not coming. So you start to look around for your bus and you see two little babies without a Mom or a Dad across the street. You come over to us and decide to take us home." She concluded. "Yhea, because we" (Wyatt makes a waving gesture between he and Lorien.) "are orphans."
So I played along--all the while remembering similar games I used to play as a kid. Why do we do this? Does any one know?
Why is it that every child imagines they were adopted or orphaned? I remember thinking I had to be adopted when I was little. No such "luck". I was cut directly from the Damon-Davis cloth and the proof is all over my face and body--stamped into my genetic material. So, why did I wish I was an orphan? My childhood was fine and my family was waaaaay better than Miss Hannigan. (Daddy Warbucks, however, might have had a million or so legs up on my family.) Needless to say, I fantasized about being adopted and finding my "real" parents. I think it is something most kids do. As proof (or payback?) last night Wyatt asked me: "Can we play 'Baby Bus Stop'?" Not knowing what exactly this game was all about I went along. I started to pretend to be a bus driver picking up babies for school. "No, Mom. You are just a lady waiting at a bus stop. " Lorien began to clarify "And your bus is not coming. So you start to look around for your bus and you see two little babies without a Mom or a Dad across the street. You come over to us and decide to take us home." She concluded. "Yhea, because we" (Wyatt makes a waving gesture between he and Lorien.) "are orphans."
So I played along--all the while remembering similar games I used to play as a kid. Why do we do this? Does any one know?
2 comments:
I think because the grass is always greener somewhere else! However- I was at Aunt Carol's this weekend and saw a pic of Grandma and Grandpa on their wedding. Cassie, it looked like you with uncle Jared. You look JUST like her. It was quite amazing...
I don't think the kids' game is just one of those things kids do. They are probably remembering the time we really did abandon them at the bus station...
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