Last night seeing my bedside table, it struck me...what a story it has to say, if it could, that is...
As a child, the bedside table had a few toys and a bedside light, a picture of my favorite God.
As a middle school student, a few games got added along with Enid Blyton books and God was sent up on to the wall, as Tom Selleck replaced him
High school brought on more pics of hunks and books ranging from Chase to Linda Goodman. Toys barring a pink teddy bear were passe!
College and all pictures were replaced with the one crush, and the boyfriend's picture surreptitiously kept in one of the Sidney Sheldon books (never was a M&B reader, I would rather live it ;-)), his gifts, flowers, love notes etc...moisturizer being the one exception..and a reluctantly placed alarm clock to get to class on time, again the meeting with boyfriend was more successful than any alarm!
Marriage changed all pictures and a baby of course rendered everything else totally null and void and took centre stage, alarm clock and baby stuff dominated.
As years passed, family photographs, pain killers, lotions replaced everything!
And today....oils for joints, night creams, medicines etc, etc!!
Journey of 5 decades as seen on the side table!
As a child, the bedside table had a few toys and a bedside light, a picture of my favorite God.
As a middle school student, a few games got added along with Enid Blyton books and God was sent up on to the wall, as Tom Selleck replaced him
High school brought on more pics of hunks and books ranging from Chase to Linda Goodman. Toys barring a pink teddy bear were passe!
College and all pictures were replaced with the one crush, and the boyfriend's picture surreptitiously kept in one of the Sidney Sheldon books (never was a M&B reader, I would rather live it ;-)), his gifts, flowers, love notes etc...moisturizer being the one exception..and a reluctantly placed alarm clock to get to class on time, again the meeting with boyfriend was more successful than any alarm!
Marriage changed all pictures and a baby of course rendered everything else totally null and void and took centre stage, alarm clock and baby stuff dominated.
As years passed, family photographs, pain killers, lotions replaced everything!
And today....oils for joints, night creams, medicines etc, etc!!
Journey of 5 decades as seen on the side table!
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