You know how life can
become mundane with kids. With kids, you kinda need some routine, because everything
else is unpredictable. You can’t predict their moods, their state of health,
etc.
But Treasure surprised
me with her ability to see through the mundane.
We were at a Uniqlo
store. And seriously, I saw the most awfully dressed mannequins ever. Who wears
maroon socks, with nude coloured court shoes? Then again, who wears socks with
court shoes, no matter what their colours are?! I was pretty displeased with
this visual merchandise display. And I paused to take a few seconds to examine
the horrid put-together. Very, very, very unsettling. At the back of my head, I
wondered if the visual merchandiser had ever been trained.
As I was looking at
the mannequins (as ridiculous as it sounds), I was holding Treasure’s hand. She
let go of my hand, stepped next to the mannequins and declared, “Take photo!” She
must have thought that I, for some odd reason, would want to remember this
moment.
Of course, being the
kindly mother that I was, I obliged. To the stares of a couple of even weirder
passer-bys (who obviously never had children asking them to do funny things), I
took out my hand phone and snapped a couple of shots.
And here are the pictures. You know what, Treasure was right. I do want to remember this moment. It reminds me of the fun we can have with our kids, in the midst of everything that seems mundane. (In case, you are wondering, that is Queenie checking out the mannequin’s clothes.)
