What we buy...

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
Amelia E. Barr

So I'm sure she didn't quite have food in mind, but it applies! We buy food, we eat it, and whaaaa-laaa! It's part of us :) Everyone with me there? Excellent. Onto a new quote.

Alright, fine, let's delve a little deeper. So, lately, what have I bought? Hmm...well groceries, which harkens back to my first theory that food does become us! Ok, let's avoid the whole what I bought thing. Let's just be all philosophical here.

Ultimately, I think what Amelia E. Barr was getting at was that if we look around at the things which surround us, the things that we have procured for ourselves, we can actually see a lot about ourselves. These things sort of make up who we are. Which begs the question "can you actually judge a book by it's cover?" I suppose if your "cover" is the interior of your house and someone were to walk in and look about, yeah, you can. The books you read, the video gaming system or lack thereof, the computers you own, the style of furniture you have...these things all say something about your tastes, your values, what you prioritize in life, etc.

Look about my house right now though and I HOPE you wouldn't judge me. Our house isn't finished. It's not decorated at all and mostly has toys and diapers strewn about. The kitchen chairs and the babies cribs are the only furniture that we've bought/selected. The rest is hand me downs and well, it isn't really the "cover" I'd like to portray.

Except perhaps the toys. Because let's face it...at the heart of it, who I am, is a mom. And I LOVE that! I love my little girls. Like most moms I buy them the things that they need and sometimes the things that they don't need but would like to have. And if you look at those things, what I've bought "says" that I love my babies. Although I hope and pray that they don't get the idea that the only way someone can love them is by buying them things. Obviously I will love them always, no matter how they turn out, I just hope that I can help mold who they will become by using all the arsenal I've been given.