February 4, 2013   44 notes
Kaylee has been asking me for a globe for ages and I kept forgetting and forgetting and last week I encountered a sale on good, cheap, light globes and I ordered her one and it arrived today. Kaylee keeps visiting me where I’m curled up on the floor (don’t even say it. I know) and showing me different things. “Look, Mom! This globe has Antarctica!” “The South Atlantic Ocean is right next to Antarctica!” “China is over here!” Part of me feels guilty that I’m not feeling well enough to show her all the parts of the world important to our family: Taiwan, Calabria, County Cork… but that part of me is being shouted down by the parts that are so darn proud of how much she is learning herself from reading the globe and the parts that know there is always time.

Kaylee has been asking me for a globe for ages and I kept forgetting and forgetting and last week I encountered a sale on good, cheap, light globes and I ordered her one and it arrived today. Kaylee keeps visiting me where I’m curled up on the floor (don’t even say it. I know) and showing me different things. “Look, Mom! This globe has Antarctica!” “The South Atlantic Ocean is right next to Antarctica!” “China is over here!”

Part of me feels guilty that I’m not feeling well enough to show her all the parts of the world important to our family: Taiwan, Calabria, County Cork… but that part of me is being shouted down by the parts that are so darn proud of how much she is learning herself from reading the globe and the parts that know there is always time.

  1. kratlee said: my favorite game i would play with my grandmother is that she would have me spin the globe and stop it with a single finger. then i would get to look up whatever i was touching in the encyclopedia and read it with her.
  2. phd-shakennotstirred said: I got two globes one year…that year the Berlin Wall fell and the following year the USSR dissolved making them almost immediately inaccurate.
  3. 21stgoddamncentury said: Cartographic curiosity is precarious slope.
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