A King family trait...

We have a lot of traits, things we are known for, our height being one of them, our ability to shake a hand properly (thanks Dad), musicality, sometimes humor, loud, hospitable, generally rambunctious but this is one that sometimes flies under the radar.  


"Trashcan moments"...  If you have been fortunate, (or perhaps not so fortunate) to experience the love for you during the afore mentioned "trashcan moment" you may or may not have had to go to the doctor's for an xray to determine the interior orthopedic damage.  if you haven't experienced this then you haven't lived.  :)  I don't know what comes over us... it's like in that moment every ounce of us wants to crush you, except it's because we LOVE you so much.  And sometimes, let's face it, love hurts...  


I feel like perhaps Steinbeck experienced this moment from one of my ancestors and wrote us into his book The Grapes of Wrath in the character of Lennie.  Fortunately, at least not to my knowledge, none of us cursed with this great capacity to love with such brutish strength has killed anyone... yet.  :)  Mind you, this is not a character trait that ALL of the King kids share, and you can imagine how those "encounters" end up.  :)  Bruising of some kind and then tears  And so it continues... I honestly have to be careful when I hold little babies, because I am truthfully afraid I will squeeze the life right out of them. 


So recently I was tagged in this post and it's true, so true.  

It's been called many things, those of us who have experienced these moments may have said things like, "I love you so much I could throw you in a trash can", or "I just want to squish the life right out of you", or even "I could punch you in the face I love you so much", more recently and far less aggressively one of our youngest says, "I love you all the lost baby animals"... OH MY GOODNESS!! Can you feel the love people?  Would we ever do those things to you??  OF COURSE NOT!!  But we are just absolutely overcome with our love for you...  May you be completely consumed by a "trashcan moment" one day in your life and feel absolutely, totally, and in all other ways loved.  :)  

TRASHCAN MOMENT!!!!