Every Day Things
I realized on this trip to Missouri that things that are often common to most adults are not so common to children - especially children whose only memory of life thus far is in Small Town, North Dakota. Ezra has been enthralled with two things on this trip... forests and highways. Odd. Every patch of trees we drive past, he asks "mommy, is that a forest?" Any time we travel on a road with more than two lanes, he asks "mommy, are we on a highway?" As we were driving today, I started wondering from where this fascination comes. Then it dawned on me... living in Small Town, North Dakota, forests and highways are things we rarely (if ever) see. I can't say I miss the highways too much - or at least the traffic. But the trees - oh, how I miss the dense forests and tall, beautiful trees! I'm thankful for Ezra's inquisitive nature. It helped me notice and appreciate many more forests that I would probably have just passed by. Thanks son.
posted by Kirsten at
8:26 PM
3 Comments:
aaahhh...trees...
Your whole experience with Ezra sounds very similar to my experience with Addy when we moved here from Germany. We had conversations such as, "Mommy, is this an Autobahn?" "No, there are no autobahns in the States; it's a highway." "Mommy, is this one of those things that's like an autobahn...what's it called?" "Highway."
She still can't remember the word highway. I guess we don't say it enough in Minot.
I wish we could say the word tree more often in Minot.
Small towns are full of interesting things. Take this for example.
It was posted by a friend from college who travels to Greece each summer to study New Testament manuscripts.
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