Within the last month or two, we had some little girls over for a play date and someone lost her pink, heart-shaped princess hair band. Mary was in raptures over finding it in our house and declared it, "the most beautiful thing I have ever seen!"
I mentioned at the time that we couldn't just keep it, that I should ask my two mommy friends who had been over recently if it belonged to their daughters. I threw it in a drawer and never got to that task because, from my adult perspective, it's just a hair band worth a few cents, less than the cost of the gasoline I'd use to drive to her house or the stamp I'd use to mail it to her.
This morning Mary found the treasure in the drawer and was admiring it again. She asked if I had found the owner and I said, "No, and I don't think we'll be able to, it's okay."
Gasping . . . "But Mama! Integrity means doing the right thing even when no one is looking. You have to try to find the owner."
This Mama stared agog at the three-year-old moralizing at her and said she would do her very best.
So, MD or PB, do you think this hair band belongs to one of your little girls?
What the what?! Awesome comeback Miss Mary "Firecracker" Lauer!
ReplyDeleteLittle Miss Mary, you are amazing!!! :)
ReplyDeleteOh, how cute! I love her comment to you. She is beyond her years! That's not our hair band, but hope you find the owner!
ReplyDeleteHa, well it is definitely ours. But wow, what a testament to how you are raising her, what a wonderful little girl. I would love for her to have it, although I know you don't "do" charachters. Either way, she can have the opportunity to return it to us on Friday, we will be at art. Let me know if I can give it to her, although if she returns it and my girls see, they will want to keep it.
ReplyDeletePriscilla: Oh, perfect! We'll be at Art, so I'll have her return it to you then. Since it would be such a reward to her ("the most beautiful thing I've ever seen!"), sure, I'll happily let you give it to her. (I'll try to do it when your girls aren't around.) Thank you!
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