Homework: Still life

Our homework assignment was to draw a still life with objects that represented us and our family. I found this to be very interesting. If I had done this like I wanted I would have had an ashtray and cigarette to represent my mother but I don't want cigarettes in my house. Even though I quit smoking eighteen years ago there is no reason to tempt myself. Also I would have used a different ruler to represent my father...one of the long,triangular ones that engineers use. I am the pencil and my sister is the egg. I wasn't sure how to represent her as she is a good person and a good egg. I feel I could have thought this out more had I had longer than a week. I thought this was a very interesting assignment.