Often I find things in my son's pants. I've come to call them pocket treasures. Mostly they are discarded items. Erasers. Beads. Or natural items. Sticks. Mulch. Rocks, plenty of rocks - crystals. Pebbles.
He's sentimental about things too - doesn't like me to throw things out. I have to sneak the McDonald's Happy Meal box into the garbage half the time. I am not allowed to throw out the directions to the Happy Meal toy... the list goes on. And on. We have stick collections by the shed, a rock collection by the recycle bin, and I have a box dedicated specfically for pocket treasures in the junk drawer.
Pocket treasures has expanded into back pack treasures - every evening I unload all the numerous pockets, why so many pockets? But I unload them into the box or the appropriate collection. Each day one or two more items get added.
My question is am I perpetuating this behavior? Should my clean out go directly into the trash? But I don't. I put these pocket treasures in their respective corners and just deal.
Maybe it goes like this - he started it but I finished it. More like I continued it...maybe because I want to see where these pocket treasures will fit into the mosaic of his life.
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