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It all began with our neighbors' decision to hold a garage sale and asking if we would like to participate.
Now, my wife Karen saw this as a great excuse to clean up around our house while our kids saw it as an opportunity to make a little extra money by selling items they no longer wanted. Happily. They began sorting and choosing and getting ready for sale their old books, their toys, and their other once-upon-a-time cherished possessions. My daughter Tracy decided to sell her long-abandoned Fisher-Price Kitchen Center. But little did I know just what her decision would soon mean to me.
Tracy was three when she became the proud owner of the center and she wasted no time getting down to the business of pretend cooking for her dolls, her stuffed animals. And of course. for her daddy. Imaginary meals consisting of plastic fruit served with tiny imitation canned goods were presented on little blue plastic plates for our make-believe consumption. Pretend coffee was brewed atop the cartoon-like representation of a stovetop and served in tiny teacups.
Tracy remembering as she poured. Just milk. No sugar. Right, Daddy? Happy hours spent creating imaginary culinary offerings continued for some time until slowly.
These delights gave way to newer creations consisting of honest-to-goodness ingredients. The kitchen center was eventually replaced with her newest favorite childhood domestic device. An easy bake oven. Her earliest attempts at baking were destined to end up as small misshapen pods of blackened batter. But soon enough, they began morphing into more recognizable and edible.
tiny cakes. and pies. Her improvement hastened further experimentation and successes soon followed. But as time went by, the days of miniature bake creation soon faded into obscurity. Real dinners and real baked desserts made in our real kitchen replaced the make-believe world created with the help of her pretend appliances.
The Easy Bay government was placed in a cabinet awaiting further orders, and the kitchen center was removed to a remote corner of our basement.
Something else was happening during this time. My little culinary creator was growing up right before my eyes. And the thing is... I never saw it coming. When the two-day garage sale was over, The unsold, unwanted items were gathered up and deposited at curbside as trash.
And by morning, all that remained was the kitchen center.
Now, Tracy viewed its rejection with a nonchalant Oh well. But I took it far more personal. How could I have been so insensitive as to toss out such an important piece of my daughter's childhood? Slowly, I began to realize why her blue and white plastic kitchen center suddenly mattered so much to me. Uh Perhaps the disposition of the center curbside represented nothing more than the reluctant acknowledgment of my own mortality.
And the admission. That I was in fact. growing older. Steve. As she blossoms into the early stages of womanhood, I grudgingly concede the reality that Daddy's little girl is growing up.
And it's to this end. I remain a prisoner. trapped within my own internal battle of conflicting opinion. bouncing back and forth between the desire to forever hold on to my little blue-eyed blonde baby dear, and my fervent wish to set her free. How strange is it, the paradox that we as parents anxiously await and indeed celebrate our cherubs' earliest childhood achievements and then We wait for the next.
In the next. chubby little legs taking their first uncertain steps. First words. First tooth. First grade.
I mourn the passing of the days when I was still the slayer of her dragons. The Great Daddy. An hero. I missed the simple things that meant so much to her, like running under a lawn sprinkler on a hot summer day. or making snow angels after a winter storm.
I miss all things related to pigs. and Pooh Bear. And I miss her snuggling between Karen and me after a scary dream had chased her to the security of our bed. Oh, how I miss the days of tickle monsters and timeouts. and of all those bedtime readings of Clifford the Big Red Dog.
And of course. Good night, Moon. It's during these private moments of quiet contemplation that I've come to realize It's best to remember the past, indeed, to celebrate all that was. and then look forward to all that has yet to be. High school.
and boyfriends. Driving lessons. the college years. Beginning a career. walking down the aisle.
Becoming somebody's mommy. But for right now, My little girl is 14. Mm. going on 40. I kind of like this time too.
On the final night before its scheduled banishment into trash eternity. Tracy's Kitchen Center. It vanished. Another beautifully performed piece by Stephen Resiniak. And special thanks to Faith for doing such a great job on the production.
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As a Jewish athlete my identity is something I am proud of. But I also know what it feels like to be singled out for it. That's why this new commercial for the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate. That aired during the big game really hit home. It's about showing up for someone when they're targeted, even if you don't have the perfect words.
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