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A Thoughtful Moment - February 2018
Lost Pennies
When my youngest daughter was two-years-old, she had generic terms for things.
For example, any and every unidentified food item was simply called “Beans.” I’d hear it all the time whether it was a vegetable, meat, dessert, or whatever: “What’s this, Mommy … beans?”
Then she developed a generic term for money. All money was “ten dollars.” If you handed her a quarter, it was “ten dollars.” Show her a twenty dollar bill and — yep, you guessed it — ten dollars.
One day, she found a penny on the sidewalk in front of our house, picked it up, and ran over to me excitedly calling out, “Mommy, look! Ten dollars!”
Well, sometimes I wish real ten dollar bills were as easy to find as my cute little curly-haired daughter thought they were when she was two.
But as I looked at the shiny penny in her hand that day, I started thinking about how quickly our lost pennies can add up to “ten dollars” when we aren’t careful about our expenses.
Maybe she wasn’t really that far off referring to lost pennies as ten dollars, after all.
Anon
When my youngest daughter was two-years-old, she had generic terms for things.
For example, any and every unidentified food item was simply called “Beans.” I’d hear it all the time whether it was a vegetable, meat, dessert, or whatever: “What’s this, Mommy … beans?”
Then she developed a generic term for money. All money was “ten dollars.” If you handed her a quarter, it was “ten dollars.” Show her a twenty dollar bill and — yep, you guessed it — ten dollars.
One day, she found a penny on the sidewalk in front of our house, picked it up, and ran over to me excitedly calling out, “Mommy, look! Ten dollars!”
Well, sometimes I wish real ten dollar bills were as easy to find as my cute little curly-haired daughter thought they were when she was two.
But as I looked at the shiny penny in her hand that day, I started thinking about how quickly our lost pennies can add up to “ten dollars” when we aren’t careful about our expenses.
Maybe she wasn’t really that far off referring to lost pennies as ten dollars, after all.
Anon