The Box
Leah and Railee had dumped out their toy boxes. My husband told them if they cleaned it up, they could play with the new box. We had just bought a dehumidifier for our home and we let the kids play with the boxes we don't need. As they rushed to clean up Railee kept looking at the box. Leah was talking about what they could turn the box into. I thought nothing of it until later that evening after the kids went to bed about how happy they were over a box. A BOX. They have a ridiculous amount of toys and they want to play with the box so much that they cleaned up all the toys to do so. The more I thought on this, the more I applied it to real life. We overlook the little things, we overlook what they could be. They are seen as "just a box" and not a car or airplane or a tunnel. People get so caught up life and what it is and not what it can be. "It is what it is" needs to be put to rest. That saying needs to stopped being used. That's a way of accepti...