Princess Quarter Cup

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

In preparing to put our house up for sale, we boxed many things up so as not to have such a cluttered house.  My daughter lost a lot of toys to the boxes and I thought that she might be upset or complain.  Initially she did ask where this toy was or where that toy was but once she figured out they weren't coming out of the boxes anytime soon, she made do with what she had.

One afternoon (shortly after the "boxing") I noticed she had pushed one of the kitchen table chairs over to the edge of the countertop between the stove and the refrigerator.  On the wall between those two appliances we keep a small wooden board with some pegs on it to hold measuring cups and wooden spoons.  However, those cups and spoons were now part of a very detailed play that was going on.

Princess 1/4 Cup it seems was having some issues with her mother (Queen 1/2 Cup) and father (King 1 Cup).  My daughter had voices for each one so it made it easier to follow along with the scene.  It seems that the King had ordered all the soldiers (played by the wooden spoons) to take the princess to the dungeon.  Now, I did not get to catch the end of the play so I don't know where the dungeon was or if she ended up there.  I think that the dungeon was inside the cat food container (since that is where we keep the 1/3 cup, presumably Prince 1/3 Cup).

I began to wonder why I even bothered buying my daughter any toys at all since it seemed that she was having just as much fun with the cups and spoons as she ever had with any toy that I had bought her.  I am pretty sure though that if I stopped buying her toys altogether I would end up in the dungeon with Prince 1/3 Cup.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon