So I was tidying up and putting away the endless glasses and mugs that were in the sink and on the counter, wondering how is it that two empty nesters can generate so much dishware? As I put the mugs away in the cupboard I had a flashback to when my kitchen cabinets were filled with plastic. Lots of plastic, as in those colorful Tupperware tumblers with spouted lids for todders, otherwise known as sippy cups. Remember the double-handle cups with the weighted bottoms that wouldn't tip?
That transition: from bottle to spill-proof baby cup to a cup without a lid. What progress! When did those little people learn to drink out of regular cups? It all happened without very much thought. I can see so clearly a grinning, bright-eyed toddler with chubby hands grasping a two-handled cup and banging a high chair tray. Now, I marvel that those same baby hands are wide and masculine, with hair on the knuckles, or slight and feminine with polish on the nails. Those soft little hands of my wee ones now haul a suitcase halfway around the world, salute Colonels and Generals, or grasp the controls of a military airplane. It only took a blink of an eye and those sippy cups have been replaced with big kid cups.
But wait, adults do have sippy cups! We just know them as travel mugs, or Starbucks coffee to go...
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