Mater: When a crib isn't just a crib

Posted by Pater , Sunday, November 10, 2019 11:50 PM

A crib note is a brief reminder, written in a concealable place as an aid to memory. Cribbing is copying another person's work without their acknowledgement.  Crib biters are inveterate grumblers...okay, okay so maybe Mater is obsessing on a certain item of furniture that's been part of our lives for ten years...

...and maybe said piece of furniture was dismantled today to make room for a Big Boy Bed for AJ4 (with a little help from him and AJ2)...
...and maybe, just maybe, Mater is projecting the sadness that her Avocado Juniors are no longer babies, onto said furniture.   After all, changing-tables become desks, rocking chairs become comfy reading chairs, and diapers and milk bottles are not memories any Mater wants to hold onto.  But a crib's sole purpose is for babies.  No baby, no crib.  So once that symbol is disassembled, dismantled, razed and undone, Mater can no longer deny the reality that her babies are no longer babies, but rather adults-in-training who will be leaving home in a blink of an eye.  But what is the alternative?  Keeping them as babies always?  Putting them back into the crib, figuratively speaking?  Or even literally speaking as well...
No, time to let them grow up.  The Avocado Juniors will always be our babies, even if Mater and Pater can't lift them up and cuddle them whenever we want.  And a crib is just a piece of furniture that we will always associate with the good memories of the formative years of each of the AJs.  But we now need to make space for the next piece of furniture that will help us make memories. So out with the crib and in with the Big Boy Bed...
Now if only Mater can get the oh-so-nostalgic AJ1 to also let go of the past...

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