We have a large canvas photo hung on our wall.
It’s a festive picture, from our trip to a Christmas Wonderland
There are Christmas trees in the background
Covered in lights and baubles.
The boys are wearing pom pom hats, and huge cheeky grins.
People always comment on how lovely the picture is.
How magical, how special. How memorable.
The picture covers a hole in the wall.
The hole was made in anger, a fist thumping the wall.
There will have been lots of anger, fury and shouting.
The hole is too deep to mend by ourselves.
We need someone to help.
Someone who knows what they are doing.
Otherwise, the hole will reappear, probably bigger.
We have a picture on our wall.
We have lots of pictures on our walls.
Lots of happy, smiley faces.
Some are sunsets, some are landscapes.
Some are big pictures. Some are small.
Memories to hold on to.
Memories to cherish.
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Very powerful. A smile can cover up all the sadness and anger. Sometimes when the kids have given me a terrible day, they smile and cuddle and it blocks out all the trouble. #Blogstravaganza
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Such a metaphor about life, especially those that appear so perfect online and on social media. It’s easy to think they have a better life than us when really everyone has their good and bad times. Thanks for linking up to #MarvMondays. Kaye
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V poignant – well done! #RV&HT
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Excellent post – such a good metaphor for adoptive parenting in general, I think. I’d love to include it on the CPV linky – would you be happy to add it at
https://hannahmeadows.com/cpv-stories/, please?
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That’s weird, was just reading your Adrift post, and it wouldn’t let me comment – was going through FTTWR, will go direct. Yes of course, will head over now and also comment on your blog.
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A lovely piece. It’s so true that a smile and good memories conquer the bad times we may have, although not fixed healed in some way. Thanks so much for sharing with #Blogstravaganza, hope to see you again next week xx
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Oh I love this… Sometimes what is ‘behind’ the picture is poignant. #RV&HT
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Very powerful post. Life isn’t all big smiles and beautiful moments but those happy memories are definitely the ones with cherishing x #marvmondays
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We have so many similar holes covered on our walls. It’s all worth it at the end of the end. Beautifully written.
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I love this, so powerful. Very well written. Thank you for linking up.
#RV&HT
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beautiful writing. We have little wonky stars drawn all over the chipped walls. They are smallest’s practising to draw a star like the ones I draw for him on cards and notes. I don’t ever want to rub them off.
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