Please Note: 100% fiction!
“Are you ready to go to your aunts’, Mary?” Mary nodded hesitantly. She’s always been in favor to visit her aunt. I have the coolest aunt, she used to brag to her classmates at school, but lately, she’s starting to rethink this title. “That nod didn’t look promising,” Mary’s mother said, “what’s up?”
“It’s her vase,” Mary blurted, her mother raised a brow, “it’s weird to have a place in her collection of rare plants.”
Her mother laughed, “I think she made that and proud of it.”
“Oh.” Mary was suddenly feeling embarassed.
“But yes, I think it’s weird, too.”
(100 words)
This is Another Story 
We tend to like & keep what we have created.
We also tend to mostly keep our views about others’ treasured things to ourselves so as to not be considered rude.
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I agree. I place everything I made front and center.
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Wow, that’s a big leap from coolest to ‘weird vase’, makes me wonder if there’s more to her hesitation.
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Perhaps, she’s feeling her aunt’s not so cool anymore?
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A long time back I had a Doris Day record; a hot iron was put on it, so it ended up looking like the glass vase. 🙂
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Oh my! Was the hot iron place on it by accident or on purpose?
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It was a accident
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Hit the nail on the head. We like and keep what we make – or what our children or some relative we love makes. Her mother taught her a couple of big lessons. She had to be nice about the vase, but #2, it was okay to feel the way she did about it. Wise mother.
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I think I tend to imagine my fictional parents like that – wise and non-judgmental. I actually made something similar in middle school – a weird-looking blue ceramic pot (I’m not very creative when it comes to this form of art) – my mom never allowed me to display it publicly and ended up chucking in the garbage when we moved.
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Awww, my brother made a blue vase like that. I featured it on my blog once. It sits on my desk and holds pencils since Mom passed.
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A pencil holder, that was what I was going for but it ended up being too wide. I used it to store quite a few things until we moved.
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So you kept it? That’s good. I do put other things in it. The main point is that it is a treasure! The clay statue I made that was on display in my junior high school disappeared, though. We moved a lot!
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I kept it for a few years until my mom tossed it into the trash.
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I admit to keeping a few pottery pieces that nobody could love but their maker :). I’m glad she was able to talk it out with her mom.
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I admit to do the same thing with my crochet pieces. 😄
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No longer ‘the coolest’, because of a vase. That’s a kid for you – fickle. Wise mother. Good story.
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Kids can switch on a dime. It’s weird but I heard they get better when they have grown up. 😄
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Cute interaction between mother and daughter! 🙂
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Thank you. 😊
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Well, that’s it then, isn’t it. Mary’s aunt is weird. Kids!
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That’s kids for ya! 😀
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