It was a joy for Karen to watch her daughter, Rosy spin around playing ‘pin the tail on the donkey’. “Look at her” Karen said to James. “She’s having so much fun with that game”.
“Yes, she is easy to please. But, her birthday party was yesterday. Don’t you think we should take that thing down?”
Karen stared back at her daughter, who was in bliss with some colored pieces of paper. “No..let her enjoy it, while she still can.”
Karen smiled knowing that simple childhood joys fade away far too fast.
(92 words)
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Written for the following prompts- Linda G. Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday “Rosy”, Sammiscribbles Weekend Writing prompt “Spin” and The Friday fictioneers photo prompt.
I’m not usually a fan of multi-prompts but dang if you didn’t do a bang up job!
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Thank you so much! That truly means a lot to me.
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Sweet story!
Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos
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Thank you! Don’t you wish you could go back to those days?
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Yes (agreeing with Dale) a seamless mashup. And why not leave the party games going? Play on.
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Absolutely! You’re only young once
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A perfect combination of prompts! Yes, please, let a child be a child as long as possible. Adulthood looms, and it seems endless at times.
That sounded bleak. Didn’t mean it to be. Actually, I wouldn’t go back, and I’ve had a wonderful, blessed life with many bumps along the way. It’s just that I think we push our youngsters into adulthood way too fast these days.
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Yes! That time goes by so fast. Thank you for the kind words.
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