Alright, here is my confession for the day–I STILL have a dozen sippy cups tucked up in my kitchen cupboard. I have not been able to bring myself to throw them out even though my three children are all in the later years of high school and in less than a year, the eldest will be marching off to college.
I don’t know what is worse–the fact that I still have the sippy cups, or the reality that my kids’ friends occasionally use them?! My kids don’t, I think because they are sort of embarrassed that their sentimental mom has not been able to part with them–and they prefer “grown-up” goblets and glasses anyway. But, when their friends visit and go searching for something to put a beverage in, they will stumble across the sippy cups and get so overwhelmed with nostalgia and adolescent silliness, that they will want to drink their orange juice in one of the brightly-colored plastic cups. And, I grumble when I have to try to wash them or feel a pang of “days gone by” when I stack up the cups and lids in their separate places in the cupboard above the coffee maker.
Now that I’ve kept them so long, I may as well just hang on to them don’t you think? After all, what is 5 or 10 more years when I’ve had them for nearly twenty. I imagine that I MIGHT have a grandchild or two in 5 or 10 more years and then I can let them drink their orange juice out of the “vintage” sippy cups. Now you see why my kids are embarrassed by their sentimental, pack-rat of a mother? Or, one of these days I may actually be ready to let them go (the sippy cups, not the children.)
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