The Maraca Sisters

At my school the children accumulate cards for good behavior that they are allowed to spend at a school store. On Friday Mary Clare came home with a pair of blue (her favorite color!)maracas. She was very excited and we had a fun evening having a music parade with piano, tamborine, maraca and bells. Margaret Rose really liked the maracas and Mary Clare told her that she would go to school next week and be good again so that she could bring MR home a pair of purple maracas. MR latched hold to this idea and started giving MC pointers on being good. As we left for school on Monday, MR followed us out the door saying, " Don't talk Mary Clare. Use good manners Mary Clare. Don't bite your friends Mary Clare, etc." Poor Mary Clare looked overwhelmed with the task ahead but promised to do her best. On Wednesday the purple maracas were in her book bag and she couldn't wait to get home and give them to her sister. Her teachers couldn't believe that she'd chosen something for her sister and not for herself. They told me they tried to talk her out of the maracas because they knew she already had some but she insisted she had to have them for Margaret Rose. There was as much joy in the giving of those purple plastic maracas as there was in the receiving. We are blessed to have 2 girls who love each other so much!