Little Girl Bling

If stickers are the currency of childhood; then hair clips are little girl bling!!

So the interaction with the girls’ favorite crossing guard has resumed without a hitch despite our foul weather break. We walk almost every evening now and Miss M continues to be a highlight of our trek. The other day she asked me if I would mind if she give the girls some hair clips. I thought about it and responded gratefully because a girl can’t have too many shoes or hair accessories.

Well, if ever there was an understatement in the history of understatements the words “some hair clips” is a clearly that; for was I was in no way prepared for what I received the next day…a vat full of hair clips!! I am not kidding. Miss M gave me a container about 36 x 24 x 12 in size!! The container was so big that it had a warning label on the side cautioning adults of the possibility of a baby being locked inside! That’s not all, inside there were several smaller containers which had the hair clips color coded and sorted according to design. I was overwhelmed.

Then when I got home my youngest dived in with reckless abandon. She wanted every one in her hair regardless of whether it matched her outfit and nothing was too grandiose for her liking either. There were hair clips with fur on them, heart shaped hair clips, flower design ones, some with a pearlescent finish; I mean enough hair clips to patch a mile. Then when my eldest and saw them she sang Miss M’s praise and wanted to know what we could do to repay her generosity, I reassured her that mother’s day is coming up to which she responded "We'll really have to do something great for her, Mummy".

You know sometimes life gives you events which etch themselves on your psyche; I hope this act of giving is one of them for two such little people - allowing them to realize that sharing does not neccesarily need a reciprocal expectancy attached to it and spontaneous acts of kindness just feel right.

Now I just have to tame my girls’ wishes to be bling-blinging every day and find storage for the multitude. EGAD!!