Proud Mama March 20, 2011

Twice a year, the playgroup that some friends and I started when Ethan was only 18 months old hosts a rummage sale with proceeds going to charity. When the rummage sale first started, Ethan was a toddler and I couldn’t even have him with me while I was manning the tables. Slowly but surely, he grew and started to be more and more a part of the sale, even if it meant that he ran around with his friends while I helped sort donations of second hand clothes and toys. But as my involvement lessened, Ethan and Joshua’s has grown steadily. The first time they were given an actual job was the year one of the moms suggested that the kids run a lemonade stand to help raise more money. Ethan was on staff that first year and for every lemonade stand to come. I vividly remember the moms of the older children asking them to add up prices and make change and me thinking to myself, “He can’t even count to 20 for god’s sake!” Well, that was several years ago, and at this latest rummage sale, Ethan was one of the stand managers. He not only added up prices and made change, he stayed at the stand from start to finish without complaining, helped out the younger kids, made rounds around the rummage sale yelling out advertisements for the lemonade stand and walked around at the end selling trays of the last pastries at reduced prices. He took his job so seriously, worked hard, and was creative and assertive in his advertising. And did I mention he made change? That was a proud, proud day for me…

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