The Chocolate Orangeness of Life

Everyone in the house seems to be creating a blog today so I am joining them. The title comes courtesy of my second daughter who, as a little girl lacking any knowledge of a cruder vocabulary, would angrily declare: "You are an orange!!" and if further insults were required: "You are a chocolate orange!!" Her tone and demeanor left no doubt as to what she really meant and we have no clues as to why a chocolate orange had these connotations.
Today, I thought it a good title. Not because of its origins, at least not today. Some days life is my daughter's kind of chocolate orange and some days it is a creamy, sweet chocolate orange but today it is neither. Today is New Year's Day, it is reflective and I am left wondering what a chocolate orange really is.
Where and how does my mind store the concept of a chocolate orange? Does it come under "Oranges I have known" or "Chocolates I have known"? It is quite different to orange chocolate - that definitely comes under chocolates I have known. Anyway, by inflection alone, my daughter created another category that was neither chocolates or oranges but "chocolate oranges" I have known.
And that is life at its best really. Creating new categories and opening new possibilities or closing them down.
Now Daughter Three has just read what I have written and told me Daughter Two's first post read "I have now got a blogspot account...yay me." so I am feeling rather wordy. Let me introduce myself quickly and I will write more tomorrow.
I am female and am mother to five chilidren - three girls, two boys. As well Daughter One has provided me with three grandchildren. Most of these offspring simultaneously fall into the categories of "beautiful people" and "chocolate oranges I have known."
We live in Perth, Western Australia with a menagerie of cats, dogs, birds and fish.
I also come under the category of "chocolate oranges one has known." So if you want to explore this category, come back again - you never know where it might lead your mind.