You see it every Thursday, #TBT or Throw Back Thursday- and
that’s exactly what I am doing today. There are many cool and fun things I
remember doing as a kid. But not everything was saved or could be stored in a
box in the attic. Don’t get me wrong, my parents stored a ton of my stuff,
report cards, baby clothes, stuffed animals, awards, trophies; you name it- if
it fit in a box it was saved. Which is totally cool because as I grew older, I
was able to look back on my childhood and see that I made straight A’s all the
time (well mostly!) and ran the fastest mile in elementary school. But seriously, when I got married and moved
into my own home, I was given all my old toys and things, to share and show
with my own children. One of the coolest “hand-me-downs” that I was able to to Cooper (and Addison- but she is more into babies and kitties right now) was a
block set that my Papa made. Papa hand made every single wooden block,
cylinder, triangle, rectangle, car in this set- you name it… probably 50 or so
pieces, all different sizes. The coolest part was, he made THREE sets of these,
one for me, Allan and Natalie- his grandchildren. And now that Papa has great
grandchildren, my blocks are still just like new and the love and sweat that
went into them has been passed on 20 something years later. I guess they should
be considered “vintage” toys by now. Anyway, it is so cool to see Cooper
playing with these blocks. I mean the kid loves them. I've always said it, but
Cooper has the engineer brain like his Daddy. He loves, inventing things with
the blocks, building sky scrapers, making me “wine racks”, stacking them on his
4-wheeler. He always has a block in his hand or on the ground in front of his
work bench. So, I am going to save as much stuff as possible (without looking
like a hoarder) so Cooper and Addison can forever cherish pieces of their childhood like I have been able to.
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| Current situation at 7:30am! |
