How sad....

My beautiful daughter, Selah, has a plethora of dressy-dresses. We get lots of hand-me-downs, especially from families within the church, and no little girl really wears-out her church dresses.

So at the beginning of this month, I took out Selah's fanciest dresses and had her put them in order of her preferance. We would wear them to all the fancy-dress days at church.

This past Sunday rolls around, I pull out that day's fancy-dress and she gets dressed. She look adorable. Mind you, it *is* a bit of an "old-school" dress. Plaid, pleated, white collar with lace, a big ribbon - oooooh, just adorable.

Well, as I am fixing her hair, she decides her dress isn't "pretty". Oh great. Here I am getting four babies ready for church (dh has to be there early) and we are RARELY early, if you know what I mean (translate: running late as usual). Yet I knew this had to be dealt with.

Me: Selah, you know, there are some little girls who don't have ANY dresses at all. Not one.

Selah (looking approriately sad): Ooooohhh, that's so sad.

Me (feeling like a good momma indeed): Yes my dear, some little girls don't have such pretty shoes, fancy dresses, hair bows and such. You are very blessed.

Selah (still looking a bit sad): Oh Momma, we should go to them.

Me (imagining family mission trips with my caring children): Yes, honey, we should go there and give what we can.

Selah (with just the hint of mischief): Yes, Momma, we should go there *right now* and give them THIS DRESS!!!

Somehow, that didn't go exactly as I had planned. *sigh*

But she did wear the dress to church anyways.......you know, there really ARE little girls without...........oh, forget it.

*Michigan Momma*