I’m linking up again today with Melissa from Making Things Up for Six Word Fridays. The word for this week was perfect for so many reasons. We emptied out Connor’s room so it’s really and truly a big boy room – all the baby stuff is gone from the closet, all the too-small clothes have been put away. Yes, we’re keeping them, just in case. But he was really concerned they were going to disappear.
Don’t worry, honey. They will be kept.
So that’s what I was going to write about. But today’s activities presented another topic, and I just couldn’t resist.
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She kept them for 25 years
Or it might have been 30
Such a long time, a lifetime
So far anyway (I’m still alive)
I knew she kept our things
But I didn’t know about these
They come in cases and boxes
And are just as I remembered
I’ve been flooded, overwhelmed with memories
First it was all our books
Toby Zebra and the Lost Zoo
I had forgotten all about it
Then toys – different bits and pieces
All evoking a time, a place
Long forgotten, remembered in an instant
Suddenly I am four, six, eight
An influx of memories this week
Little People and their many accessories
Looking at them, they seem old
But to him they are new
Collections mentioned as they’re brought out
Adult siblings claim ownership, teasing (mostly)
But it’s another’s turn to play
Making new memories of his own
