Wednesday, December 10, 2014

The Kindness of Crushed Strawberries

"Friendship... is not something you learn in school.  But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
~ Muhammad Ali

One of my daughters and several of her school friends designed their own Secret Santa gift exchange this year.  The girls all sit together at lunch and they decided that each day or every other day, they would bring small treats for each other and then something a little bigger at the end.  I have not been asked to buy anything, so I was curious about what passed for treats.  Today, my daughter shared that her Secret Santa had brought her pink lemonade and pink marshmallows.  Pink lemonade?  "Yes, she knows I like pink," my daughter explained, "so she crushed strawberries into lemonade for me."  My daughter could not stop talking about the homemade lemonade with the crushed strawberries as I marveled at the impact of a little thoughtful kindness.

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