Orphans

When I was little, a few of my 8 siblings and I would often get kicked outside for the duration of the day, for obvious reasons, so we would steal some eggs from the fridge, go out back, and play orphan. What were the eggs for you ask? Well imaginary orphans have to eat too okay?! The eggs were OBVIOUSLY for making soup, which we concocted by digging a wide hole in the ground, throwing some grass and other "herbs" in there, cracking an egg, and mixing it together with a stick! Genius! We never ate it of course, but I do remember being pretty tempted here and there. But that's not all that our imaginary orphan lives consisted of. We would also go to the kiddie pool (which was almost always full of nasty rain water), find a board of some sort, and wash various rags we found around the house as if we were down at the river with our washboard. We would also pick tons of dandelions (because let's face it, our yard was 3/4 weeds), peel the stems apart, and put them in the water to make "jewelry". We would also make dandelion necklaces out of the flowers. We would then sell the jewelry back and forth amongst ourselves. I'm sure there were points where we attempted to sell it to random strangers walking along the street as well. We would also build sweet forts in the bushes in our backyard. Good times as an orphan.