Riley came over and we built a fairy house in the backyard. Although she told me there were no such thing as fairies- I convinced her otherwise. This is so unlike me – I don’t even know how to talk about Santa Claus b/c I never grew up believing in Santa Claus, Easter Bunny or other magical creatures. But once I got going describing fairies to her – I couldn’t stop!!! Part of me was ashamed that I was lying to a 5-year-old, but the other part of me was thrilled that I was instilling in her a sense of wonder about “another world.” There is something important about kids going up with this wonder of an outside world. I don’t know what it is exactly, maybe just for the fact that they do grow up so fast and the harshness of the real world leaves no room for fairies.
Anyways – here’s a picture of our fairy house. It was built mainly out of sticks, landscaped with white rock, the roof was covered in moss and decorated with sweet pea flowers. And although you can’t see it from the picture there is a locust shell protecting intruders on the roof (the boys idea of course). What’s crazy about this photo is that I could not get a clear picture of it – it kept turning out kinda foggy…I’d like to think it had something to do with the fairies.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:04 pm
hey there! I caught a glimpse of your blog while I was using your computer last week. I can totally relate to almost all your posts.
For instance, Andy thinks that lying to children about Santa, fairies, etc is wrong, but my own childhood was ruled by all things magical and imaginary, and I can’t imagine not encouraging our children to do the same. It’s something we’ve debated more than once.
Also (in regard to your previous post) my family are all huge fans of greeting cards. I can’t count the number of times I’ve given 2 cards to someone because I couldn’t just choose one. Andy thinks this is totally silly and unnecessary, of course. but we’re the opposite of you two–I still get him (often multiple) cards and he usually doesn’t get them for me. I know it’s not because he’s being unthoughtful, it’s just not a meaningful gesture to him. But when he does get me one (usually with a picture of an cutie animal on it), I treasure it!
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:43 pm
yeah – it’s crazy how I am seeing more and more that i am so much the way I am b/c of my “family origin”. and knowing that andy is the same way about some silly things, just proves it to me more.
October 29th, 2008 at 1:42 am
People should read this.