How do I look? How do you “look”?

Saturday, upon arriving home from helping a friend tile a back splash, I pulled into a well cleared driveway and sidewalk free from snow and ice…compliments of my neighbor who did this in exchange for me fixing their furnace earlier in the day. As I pulled into my parking spot I noticed something dangling in the small tree I had transplanted in our front yard this past Fall. It was white so I was thinking it was one of those plastic grocery bags or perhaps an escaped page from the morning newspaper. Nope, it was a diaper. Yes, a diaper dangling from the branches, apparently a victim of being tossed out the window by our dear Matthew. How do I know it was a work of Matthew? It was a perfectly clean, new diaper…minus the velcro tabs. The only other marks on the diaper were a ragged edge compliments of the snow blower that launched it from the driveway across the sidewalk and onto the final resting place of the tree branch. As I sat in my car looking at the pristine view of a fresh fallen snow cover I took a moment to think about the past week and all of the things that we consider normal in our home and wonder how we may “look” to a perfect stranger, to our neighbors and sometimes even our own extended family. Here is just a few events of just the past week: Our brand new blinds on our front picture window, $5.00 vinyl…
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