Souvenirs
When I travel, I typically like to bring home little mementos from the place I’ve been visiting. Not so much to remember the trip, but more to say, “yep, been there, done that.” I don’t like a lot of clutter so I try to keep things fairly small and functional. Someday, when I have a house I can actually “live” in, I will put my “travel shelf” back up and be able to display all the little things I collect.
(Yes, it’s a shelf of Vegas, Disney and NYC stuff. Zip it. I’m working on that!)
This last trip, this trip to Nebraska? I brought a different kind of souvenir home. One that I think I would have preferred to have left there (no, I’m not talking about the cow farm smell stuck in my car). It’s not really a “shopping” area, we don’t really go anywhere with memento-type stuff while we’re there. And yet, with this lovely, little reminder, I will never, ever forget this trip to Nebraska for as long as I live.
What could I possibly have brought home that is so memorable, you ask?
A child that says, “No!” To absolutely everything. Oh my lands! “No. No. No.” She started the last morning we were there and she hasn’t quit. (And she never will quit, I get that.) And she’s very emphatic about it most of the time. She means business. Sometimes she even shakes her head while saying no just to make sure there is absolutely no confusion about what she could possibly mean.
This is one souvenir I could have completely done without.