A Lesson in Giving as taught by my Threenager
Yesterday my parents (Gigi and Dude to Molly and Cooper), gave Molly $2 to spend at Dollar Tree (her favorite store). She couldn't WAIT to spend it and talked nonstop about how excited she was to look for My Little Pony stuff. She started putting some things together like... "Hey mommy... what happens if I have THREE dollars?" "Hey mommy...what happens if I have like TWENNY dollars?" "...Do YOU have twenny dollars?" She catches on quickly, this one. After she realized more money would buy her more STUFF, our trip to Dollar Tree became even more urgent. And the incessant line of questioning quickly wore on me so I said, "If you go get in bed and rest reaaalllly good, I'll give you one more dollar to spend and then you can get THREE things at the store when you wake up tomorrow." That did the trick. "Goodnight, mommy!" The next morning I gave her a dollar in change because that's all I had which meant a mi...