Two Coats

Amanda took Lily and Noah shopping yesterday. Our church participates in a program called "boot buddies" where congregants take a name of a child and buy winter clothes for that child. Amanda intentionally chooses a girl around Lily's age. Lily used to have a real problem with this because she would want the stuff that Amanda would buy for the little girl.

This may seem like a form of torture, but this is slowly teaching Lily about how other kids don't have the stuff that she does. Based on what Amanda tells me, it went pretty well last night. The good news is that Lily needed a coat for the winter too and Amanda found them on sale.

Lily seems to be getting better at this idea of giving stuff away. We'll see how it goes someday if we take Noah to buy a ball for a little boy who needs one.