Sometimes joy isn't universally experienced ...

My beautiful, beautiful mug arrived last week.  I was thrilled! I now had one more item to add to my "Few of My Favourite Things" list!!  I pictured the cups of tea we'd share, the wonderful women who crafted it, the wonderful women who'd inspired me to comment enough to receive it ~ what a joyful moment in time receiving that package was ... in my mind's eye.

Seems it's arrival wasn't univerally embraced. Daughter #1 and Daughter #2 (birth order numbers, to me, they're both off the scale in terms of importance) feigned excitement - sort of.  One clearly enjoys any opportunity to get her picture taken ... the other was reassessing her role in the priority list of my life.  And Little Dog - she rejected it outright.

As I went to create space in the kitchen cupboard for my beautiful new mug - the Daughters hatched a plan.  Daughter #2 continued to show her 'joy' at this rival's arrival ~ and Daughter #1 went online to seek out the name of a good Mug-napper.

When they came to the realization that the mug was here to stay ~ they chose to deal with things the way they usually do ~ as competitors. There is nothing wrong with your screen.  The colour always gets sucked out of the room when they behave this way.

Mustering whatever acceptance they can find - Daughter #2 finds some solace in the knowledge that when it comes to one on one combat ~ she still rules (notice the colour is still sucked out of the picture) ... and Daughter #1 resigns herself to the fact that she may be #3 at the moment - but it's a photo opp ~ life isn't all bad.

And in my usual method of dealing with things ~ I gave them a job to do to keep their minds occupied with higher thoughts and greater purpose.  All's well that ends well.

THANKS PNN - THIS MUG'S A KEEPER!