― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Having been
away on business for a couple of days, I feel very indebted to my mom friends
who pitched in to make my three-ring circus run as smoothly as possible. I was wondering how to pay them back this
morning when an opportunity arrived via e-mail.
Today we were
celebrating my son's teacher's birthday at school, and the Room Mothers had
asked all the moms to send in a flower with each child to make a bouquet for
the teacher. A mother in the class (who
has five children!) e-mailed me to thank me for the reminder and to say how
sorry she was that she had forgotten, but she was out of town on a college
visit with her older children. She wrote
that she wanted to cry because her son would be so upset about not having a flower. I wrote back to tell her that as I was taking
a cake to school for the teacher, I also would take a flower to give to her
son, so that he could give it to his teacher.
At school, I gave a small bunch of flowers to her little boy and told
him that his mother sent these for him to give to his teacher. I took a photo of the little boy and the
teacher with the flowers, and e-mailed it to the mother. She wrote back, "I owe you." Not at all.
I was actually thrilled to do it.
She gave me an opportunity to pay forward -- in a very small way -- the
many kindnesses that I had just been blessed with while I was away.
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