pieces and ponderings

My kids make me laugh…they make me laugh a lot.  Last weekend…during all of the furniture re-arranging (see earlier post)…was one of those times.

This is a cabinet that was moved during the re-arranging.  It belonged to my grandparents…an old-fashioned television cabinet, which housed their first TV.  Later on, when they replaced that first television, my grandmother had shelves made for the cabinet because she liked it so.  I like it too, and have filled the shelves, storing nick-knacks and trays and pictures, etc.

The cabinet was in our dining room, but got moved with the re-arranging.  It’s now in the room where my grandparents’ parlor furniture sits.  I like it there, too.

After children, numbers 1and 3, moved the cabinet; I walked through the room and noticed that child number 1’s kindergarten picture and two of his college debate trophies sat atop the cabinet.  It made me laugh.  His high school senior portrait is also in that room and he calls the room his shrine…so he just added the memorabilia to his shrine, he informed me.

While he was explaining this to me, child number 2 was listening…she cut her eyes at me and I knew what would soon be happening.  When her older brother went back to his room…she headed to get all of her trophies.  The next time I walked through the living room…her awards had replaced her brother’s.

Child number 4 was not to be out-done.  As soon as his older sister’s attention was directed elsewhere, his recently-acquired-math-competition trophy (the biggest trophy in the house) was centered between his sister’s accolades.

When his older siblings realized what had happened there was much laughter and kidding one another.  The trophy shrine has remained the whole week…and has made me smile every time I see it.