Counting Toys

It is rare that I suffer from insomnia but the other night I had trouble drifting off. I suspect it was because I had been out in the heat for several hours. I was too tired to get out of bed but too awake to lie still. I decided to try and remember every toy I ever had and try even harder to remember what became of them.  It was an exercise that was working on making me drowsy until I snagged on a memory.

There was  a children's wooden domino game. They were not regular dominoes but simple pictures painted in bright colors on flat pieces of wood. I remembered how they smelled when I took them out of the box the first time but could not recall how I received them. I was awake now and had to get  up and  look  through a few things. I  found a magnet I had made out of one of the pieces. I have no memories of this domino set other than opening the box, catching the scent of wood and that "new toy" smell and then emptying the box onto the floor, hearing how the pieces "clapped" when they fell , gathering them up again and feeling the weight of them all and then lining them up one by one admiring the shapes and colors. I'd like to find this set again.

Once I got the magnet on the fridge I was exhausted and fell right to sleep.