The Things we do for our kids.
| April 30, 2010 | Posted by SuperADDMom under ADDventures, iMother |
A while back we started a tea ritual. Before bed, The kids have a light snack ( or lunch as eastcoasters in Canada call it) and a cup of relaxing herbal tea.
So to make it more formal, and special, we took the kids to Value Village and let them pick out their own special tea cup and saucer.
My boy picked a staffordshire, green, stoneware English tea cup.
we paid $2.50 for it. there were others there as well, but we didn’t want the whole set. in hind sight, maybe we should have bought a back up.(or two)
Well, he’s had the cup for well over 6 months I guess, and he just LOVES his tea cup.
He was delighted when he recognized his tea cu on the dresser of Anne’s bedroom, as set decoration, in a scene of Anne Of green Gables a few months ago when we watched it.
Well, he’s not suppoed to leave the table with his cup, he tends to be a bit clumsy on bad days when he’s over tired from a lot of physical exercise.
Yesterday was one of those days, and he left the table with his cup in hand to finish the last drop before bed.
He was watching daddy do something on the Wii and a sound drew his attention….
and Crash….he dropped his cup. it slipped out of his hand by accident because his coordination was off from a busy evening of running and playing and riding his bike.
He fell to the floor in a pile of tears and I had to sit on the floor and scoop him up and rock him and console him, and calm him down, because he was so sad.
He begged me to “poxy” it back together, but I told him he could never drink from it again… after some cuddles and more bouts of tears, he resolved on his own that he would keep it forever as a decoration. Daddy suggested planting a small flower in the cup or cactus plant perhaps…we have not decided.
But now I am searching for and EXACT copy of this cup, because he says he’ll never forget his cup, and he NEEDS his cup back, adn he learnt his lesson and will NEVER leave the table again!
He is so in love with his cup that he told me that if we cannot get this EXACT cup. the only thing that will be acceptable, it to get a white cup, and draw the SAME design back on the new cup.
Tomorrow we’re probably gonna g tea cup hunting….ohh the things we do for our kids
