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LJ Idol Exhibit A: "The Ride Of A Lifetime"

Feb 28, 2013 10:52

The Ride Of A Lifetime
LJ Idol Exhibit A | week 6 |1370 words
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You enter into parenthood knowing that there will be ups and downs over the years, but people don't talk as often about how much of it will simply be weirdYes, there will be diapers and tantrums and that godawful kiddie music that makes you want to blowtorch ( Read more... )

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beldarzfixon March 2 2013, 03:21:29 UTC

Wait, what -- toys don't have feelings?

I find this hard to believe.
=)

halfshellvenus March 2 2013, 03:25:13 UTC

Hahahaha! Oh noez-- I've exposed someone else to the harsh reality!

porn_this_way March 2 2013, 23:41:42 UTC

Given my initial reaction to the first picture was "OMG SQUEE LITTLE ORANGE FROGGY ON A CHAIR" I'm not entirely sure I ever grew into the "toys as inanimate objects" stage of my life either. Oh well, can't win 'em all :P

Your daughter sounds like an incredibly special kid. The toy habitats in storage drawers and that note out of an 11 year old...just wow.

halfshellvenus March 3 2013, 00:14:34 UTC

Isn't that frog cute? He might have been a bathtub squirty toy, but it does not matter! Only the cuteness matters!

Some of the things not shown were pencil erasers with faces (in their "beds" in their homes), all of the Zodiac peek-a-Poohs desuited (God, I do not know why) and stuffed into a single bed, and random incidents of those litte fuzzy keychain creatures from Claire's. Both kids had quite a few of those, and none of them seemed to mind the hole in the head from removing the keychain. o_O

A parent of one of Lauren's friends once described her as "soulful." Both she and her friend were four then (!), but it was an amazingly perceptive label and it's still true!

kittenboo March 3 2013, 15:47:03 UTC

I literally laughed out loud at the hedgehog story, because as a child I totally would have reacted the same way!

halfshellvenus March 3 2013, 18:00:46 UTC

I would have too, but at a younger age! I thought I was safe, since he was twelve!

Gah.

I had a similar fail when he was five, where he said that he thought Baby Hedgie was kind of a Beanie Baby (he isn't), and I said that he was more of a beanbag toy. "Mama, that hurts my feelings." I said I was sorry, though I didn't know why it upset him. It turned out that he still thought Hedgie was real, and the word "toy" was a devastating insult! :O

Clearly, I hit both those phases earlier than both my kids. If only I had known!

baxaphobia March 4 2013, 00:22:03 UTC

Although I am not a parent, nor have i ever wanted to be, I enjoyed reading this and your experiences. Smile.

halfshellvenus March 4 2013, 03:31:01 UTC

Yay-- I was hoping it would still be interesting for those without children. Thanks for reading!

jem0000000 March 4 2013, 06:40:08 UTC

Awwww! That's really sweet.

I still have some of my dolls and toys from when I was little.

halfshellvenus March 4 2013, 19:37:07 UTC

I would probably have a few more myself, but my parents moved so often that after I left home, they wanted to purge the toys while I was still in college and had no place to keep them!

Only a beautiful unicorn (passed down to my daughter), a corduroy teddy bear made by my grandmother (now my son's), and a homemade Eeyore survived.