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Children are priceless, and so is the way that they think, my own children are no exception. When giving gifts my children always provide the best and most memorable gifts. Gifts that make me laugh and cry, but most of all gifts that help me to remember how cute they were, and how much they have grown up over the years.
One time I recall my children bought me a gift, it was a beautiful mothers day card, which they had bought down at the shop all by themselves. The card was beautiful and filled my heart with pride, at the thought that they had gone out all by themselves without any prompting and had very sneakily hid the card from me. Then they had taken it to their bedroom and written in the card all by them selves with green marker pen, and presented me with this beautiful card.
What made things far more entertaining, was neither of them could read very well. The card was not really a mother’s day card, but a Valentines Day card. When the joy of receiving such a beautiful gift had worn off, I wondered how they had come to acquire the money for the card. I had not given them the money nor had their father, and I knew they had no money themselves. They were only too happy to tell me where they had found their little treasure trove of coins to fund their recent expedition.
My children took me by the hand and showed me where they had found ‘lots of money’ and smiled up at me looking for approval. They had found my hidden coin purse full of rare coins, some of which were very valuable. It was these coins they had chosen to take to the shops and buy a very important mother’s day gift.
I closed my eyes and tried not to be bothered by loosing one possession and gaining something that was worth more than a room full of precious coins, I managed to stay calm but it was a little difficult at first! It did take a while to accept. Possessions are just something that you have, but in the larger scheme of things are never really worth anything. After a few years I would most probably have sold those coins to buy my children gifts at Christmas, with very little regard to what the coins meant to me.
This is because the love and adoration of a child is worth far more than anything else. I have since framed that mother’s day card. I look at it every so often to remind me how lucky that I am to have such special children, who put others before themselves. Special children who are able to still to this day melt my heart with just a single smile.
