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_____________________March 2,2008______________________

An old photo of Molly but I thought this needed an illustration.

I had lunch with my church, at my aunts house.
The kids are just wonderful. Theyre so full of wisdom and joy. One tells me there is no such thing as luck and explained it beautifully....better than any adult ever has.

So in return, I told her about belly wishes....you have to rub your belly, or preferably someone elses belly, WHILE youre making the wish...then, when youre done, you pat your belly to make it final.(proper belly rub wishing protocol is essential)

At that point the wish is complete and all you have to do is wait.

And they knew a lot about making wishes already. They told me that you cant tell anyone what a wish was until it has come true, or else it wont ever come true...so, I was wondering, at what point you could determine a wish wasnt coming true and therefore it is safe to tell someone what you had wished?
A query we have all no doubt pondered at some time or another. And that is when Hayden, the oldest at 6, told me that I should make the wish for something to happen at a certain time...that way I would know when the deadline had passed that it was ok to tell someone what I had wished because it wasnt coming true anyway. While Molly Katherine, barely 4, said simply with a huge innocent smile "Dont be silly, wishes always come true."

Its funny how those two years can make such a huge difference in a childs outlook. THeyre very different people to begin with, that I grant, but the 4 year old answer is full of wide eyed enthusiasm and belief in a world of magic , while the 6 year old answer, still holding a ton of the magic of youth still in tact, has become practical and logical, and accepts the idea that wishes just might not come true, sometimes....on occasion.

I just know theres a lesson to be learned here....Ill have to come back to that soon.

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