Wild Fruit

Authors

Victoria Web Rutherford

Keywords

Nurturing, growth, Foster families

Abstract

Unlike when my parents euphemistically said they purchased me on sale at Kmart, my husband and I actually did get our children from a McDonald’s PlayPlace, where they showed distinctive signs of having been formed from McNugget-clay paste, salt, and ketchup. The older boy, a five-year-old dynamo, was high powered, fast talking, and quick, but he wasn’t childlike. He was a T-Rex, or so he rasped over and over from his perch on the play structure before shaking the tenuous plastic or bounding on top of the tube slide and jolting the riders inside. Brother, an observant two-year-old, was almost imperceptible compared to the full-tilt T-Rex, a quality he took full advantage of when he slipped out of the restaurant under cover of Jurassic chaos. When someone finally noticed and brought him back, the little boy impishly smiled as if to say, “There’s always next time,” and with his proximity to the house-on-fire T-Rex, he knew it was true.

Recommended Citation

Rutherford, Victoria Web (2023) "Wild Fruit," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 62: Iss. 2, Article 8.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol62/iss2/8