Legos = Childhood Career Testing??

A few weeks ago, our friends and neighbors Mike and Maria returned from a trip to visit family with a few ‘goodies’ in their suitcases. One of those fun items included a box of LEGOS from Mike’s house. Not only do we have children in our community who play with them, but we have a few ‘big kids’ who like to as well. Tony, Mike, and I spent an hour or so playing with these legos and I found it quite interesting to see what each of us created. Now… I am kind of predictable. I made square houses as a child and I made another one on that day. Tony decided to make a prison with a cop car and Mike engineered his dream home… Each one was so different from the other. I created different rooms in the ‘house’ with those long, skinny lego pieces. Tony thought of EVERY detail including a CEILING lamp in the prison and a TOILET. WHAT?! And Mike carefully crafted each ’side of his home to balance the other sides out and had a windmill at the top of it! I have a hunch that if you had watched us play with legos as childhood friends – you would have noted that Mike had a future in some kind of engineering/building design, Tony might  have a knack for detail and have a desire to work with people who felt ‘trapped’, and I wanted to have a family. Although it’s a bit of stretch, I DO stand by the idea that you can see people’s skills, or lack thereof, come through in their lego ‘art.’ I was a bit frustrated with my predictability that day, so I added a boat and declared that my house was now a HOUSEBOAT and had a little deck off the side of the house. Add a few pirates in the boat and on top of the house… and suddenly, NOT so boring anymore!!!

See for yourself:

We are headed to Lake Webster, aka Conner’s Cove, for the holiday weekend and are SOOOOO excited to sit on the porch and do NOTHING but relax, eat, and be with family!