Shya had been harassing me to take her to Wal-Mart Christmas shopping. She wanted to buy me a present she said.. Anyways we decided that we would draw names in our little family, Shya buy for me, Ally buy for Shya, Zoey buy for Steve, etc.. you get the picture.
Well I took Ally and Shya to Wal-Mart and my friend Maria came with us. Shya had my name so I asked Maria if she would take Shya and let her do some shopping and we would meet up later.
When we met up later Shya had bought everyone in our family a present, not just me.. I asked her what she was doing and told her to put all the other's back. She refused and almost started bawling there in the store when I told her not to spend all her money.. The money that she brought with her was the money that she got for her birthday and money that she had been saving to buy herself something.
Kids are amazing.. I was so impressed that she spent all her birthday money on us, her family. She spent 88 cents on herself and bought a cookies and cream candy bar..
This truly is the spirit of Christmas and it was shown to me by my beautiful 9 year old daughter..
5 comments:
We could all take a lesson from Shya. What a great Christmas story. Thanks for reminding me what Christmas is really about.
so did you make her put it all back? :) good for shya, what is money for if not to spend it on everyone else!...minus a little chocolate for yourself.
There is the perfect Christmas present wrapped up in a 9 year old's body. What a sweetheart! You are a lucky Mama. She is following the example of Christ giving of herself. Corrin spent some of her allowance this fall on me by buying a broom. Kids are great!
What a sweetie. Kids usually teach us the best lessons. She probably learned it from her mom.
What a great daughter you have!
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