Sneaky
I have to wonder if a sneaky kid did this alone, or if a sneaky parent put it back.
Regardless, I did not buy this apple.
Sentiment and Nostalgia
I’m feeling very sentimental. It started when I walked by a campfire. Children (I'm assuming) full of imagination built a firepit on their lawn. There was a group of fist-sized rocks laid out in a circle about a foot in diameter. I n the middle, they had placed twigs piled up on each other and topped it off with a little bit of tinder. I pictured them pretending they were camping, going on adventures and roasting s'mores. I flashed back to our own backyard to when my kids were younger and the games they would play. Later in the day, Sam’s (the “baby” of our bunch) 5th-grade promotion ceremony photos come up in my memory feed. Today that kid is a high school junior. This afternoon I asked him if he wanted to watch a movie. He asked me to pull out some DVDs and then he would pick one from my selections. I chose a variety of genres and he popped in Toy Story. More emotions, seemingly out of nowhere, started to flood my heart. (Yes, we still watch actual
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