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When my oldest son was still an only child and later when he had his first brother... I found out little things could be a pain. These days everything is trying to get smaller and smaller. Small is BIG! Ok I love little things. I have a ton of them. I do not know why I bother having so many little things. They don't make me happy and I loose them and then replace them and end up with a ton of little things. But my sons had so many little toys that I bought a plastic snow shovel just for scooping them up and tossing them into the toy box or whatever container they belonged in. Looked a lot like someone shoveling coal into a coal shute.
The worst thing about them is they are easy to miss when you are cleaning up. Like a match box car. One hid itself behind a chair leg one day. My house was really clean because I was expecting company. But I missed this silly little car. I did not see it. But my sons foot found it. He stepped on it and it moved on its tiny wheels and it turned and the poor kid had a broken leg because of it. There are few sounds that make a woman scream. But this one did make me scream. I am not a screamer. But I was screaming in pain because I knew my son was suddenly in a lot of pain. This break was too much for the local hospital. So they sent us to the Childrens hospital in the state capital. We were there for 12 hours. I was nursing my 3rd son so I had to take him with me. He was just a tiny thing. But for the whole 12 hours I had to hold my new little son and deal with all that was going on. I never put him down for 12 hours. By the time my husband picked us up My arms were hurting so bad I could barely let go of the baby to let my husband take him. he was such a tiny thing too. Only about 10 -15 lbs or so at the time. After that for a long time those cars weren't allowed in my house at all. It took years before I would let my kids have them.
Now I have tons of tiny things. I have to have special places to put them. I have little bowls, cups, containers, drawers etc to hold all of these tiny things. I have to gather them all soon and go through all of them because we are moving in a few months. This is a new pain. Well, a renewed pain. Since we have been married we have moved no less then...11 times. Little things I have found can cause a big pain in the butt, a big headache, arms that ache, legs to ache and a huge back ache. But I am so addicted to little things. Little trinket boxes, little tiny dolls, little odds and ends. I think that as we change we like most of our things to be little.
until next time...