Puddled

'Puddled' - an Olde English word meaning 'a bit strange' or 'confused'
'Puddle' a pool of muddy rainwater.

In the years before I met my husband, he lived with a young widow who had a four year old son. He raised the boy as his own for twelve years until the relationship with the widow broke down; the boy was sixteen years of age at that time. When the boy grew up he married and had a child of his own; a daughter. She is now four years old. She is the child in the photograph. I am the photographer and the wife of the man who raised her father as his own. She calls me Grandma and I call her Granddaughter. As I was taking this picture of her puzzling over her own reflection in the puddle, I was reflecting on our relationship; Who is this child? Who am I to her? Who is she to me? All we know is that we both enjoy splashing in puddles, that we are family and that we love one another. It seems to be enough.