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My children send me photographs of dead things.

I opened an email today from my daughter, the subject line was, “things that make me think of you”.

There weren’t any words in the email, only a photo.

A photo of a dead Praying Mantis.

A dead Praying Mantis whose belly was full of baby spiders.

My children send me photos of dead things.

I am winning at parenting.

dead preying mantis

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  • Alex aka Whoa Mumma February 26, 2013, 2:09 pm

    Awesome. LOVING what you’ve tagged it under.

  • river February 26, 2013, 7:03 pm

    Wow! I love it. Wow.
    Great capture, V.

  • Elephant's Child February 26, 2013, 8:56 pm

    Of course you are winning at parenting. Did you have any doubt? We certainly don’t. Your love and care and support for them is a HUGE part of who you are.

  • Alison Webster February 27, 2013, 10:39 am

    Why exactly does this image remind Victoria of you? From a daughter’s point of view though, this is similar to the things I do to my own mother as a way of (lovingly) teasing her. It’s like the silly games we used to play when I was little and the whole point was to get Mum to pull a funny face or grimace! Then I was satisfied she understood and reciprocated how much I loved her (and still do of course).
    One of those games was turning over my empty boiled egg shell in the egg cup and pretending I hadn’t eaten it after all. I couldn’t move on with my day until I’d received the requisite groan and eye-roll!
    That’s winning parenting 🙂

  • Punky Coletta March 1, 2013, 11:43 am

    Ahhh! The pic totally creeped me out! But it is also really a good picture. I mean, interesting and just cool looking. But I’m still creeped out!