The Offering

Today was insane.  Start to finish, we were over-booked.  By the afternoon I was exhausted, Christian was in a full melt down, and we were way behind schedule.  We had already watched hot air balloons in the morning, had a big family breakfast at Nick's mom's, had a short physical therapy session for Christian, finished Halloween costumes, and gone to a birthday party.  And we still had several more events on the list.  The next event was a  hay ride, for the kids to trick-or-treat in our neighborhood.

I hurried the kids into their costumes, a mermaid and Mr. Incredible, respectively, and got them out the door.  Although we lasted longer than last year, Tessie called it quits before we finished looping the whole neighborhood, due to straw poking through her mermaid tights.  We got home and decided there was no way we were going to make the next event, the balloon glow in town.  But we did decide to head over to have dinner with some friends.  Tes asked if she could have some candy and I told her to pick out one piece to have after dinner.  She inspected her collection, selected a piece, and then came walking over to me.  When I looked down at her outstretched hand, I saw a miniature snickers bar being offered to me.  "This one is for you Mommy, because you didn't get any candy."  I grabbed her and gave her a huge hug.  After my day of crazed scheduling, most of which went awry, this offering made it all better.  I thanked her and told her what a sweet girl she was, then I snuck the candy back in her basket.  After all, a beautiful kindness like that deserves a little chocolate.