Pencil Thief

   Our Lydia likes to write stories at night.  We don't have laptops in the rooms, so she is "forced" to write them by hand.  I use the quotation marks because I don't think she minds very much.

   However, these are the famous triangular Ticonderoga pencils and they require a special pencil sharpener to be sharpened.

  Which is downstairs on the main floor.

  And we don't want kids wandering around after they are in their bedrooms at night.

  So the logical approach is to snaffle all the available pencils she can find every day, sharpen them up, and haul them up to her room.

  So sometimes it is hard to find a decent pencil around here!

 But who am I to argue with the creative impulse to write stories?

  More Ticonderoga pencils are on the way.  Thank you, Amazon.