I couldn’t remember if I had shared this story with most of you, so I thought I would post it.  Some of you have probably heard it numerous times, but it really is a gem.

Hadley is into everything “princess”  so she is loving all of the hand-me-down dresses that she recently got.  One morning I was putting on some makeup and getting ready for the day.  Hadley asked if she could play with some of the makeup.  I only let her use the brushes and she began to “put on makeup”  As she was doing this she was saying things like “I am going to be so pretty,”  “look at how beautiful I am”  “I am a little princess” and things just like this.  Then she asked to put on a twirly dress so she could be a princess.  This was getting to worry me a little because I realize her idea of beauty is something external.  So, I started to talk with her about princesses and beauty being something that is internal and how beauty is really being nice etc…etc…etc…  So after our five minute discussion (where she nodded in agreement the whole time) she then turned to me and said, “mommy, will you lift me up to look in the mirror so I can see how pretty I look?”

Clearly something to work on…

And just now as I was typing this, Hadley and I had a conversation about lunch.  It went like this:

“Hadley, we are having pizza for lunch!”

“Oh…(sad face) I want chicken!”

“What???? Why would you want chicken?  I didn’t even know you liked chicken so much.”

“But, mommy, it is soooooo yummy!!!!”

Who knew.