It never ceases to amaze me the way the mind of a child works.
This week end as the girls and I drove to the store to pick up some ‘egg-coloring’ kits so we could spend the afternoon going through a dry-run of decorating Easter eggs,..we drove over a bridge where below us were train cars filled with coal. “I asked for some of that for Christmas, and didnt get any” Abigail said.
“What?” I asked
“I asked for some of that, you know, coal….for Christmas and all I got was presents” She repeated in a disappointed tone. Then she added “Grandma, the story says that bad boys and girls get coal, and good ones get presents, so does that mean if you are good and you ASK for coal, you can’t get it?”
I smiled and told her “Well if you are good, you would think that you could get whatever you asked for, right? So I am not sure why that didnt work”. And we left it at that.
We went to the store knocked ourselves out getting sparkles and decals and grass and baskets and any other little thing we could use to decorate an egg.
On the way back home out of the blue Abigail said to me, “Grandma,…do you think it would be okay to be bad intentionally this year,… so that I could get coal for Christmas?”
I just love the way a child’s mind works,…and I assured her that I would get her some coal if she was GOOD.
