Yesterday we went shopping for a pair of dinner shoes for Hannah. Her choices were all shoes with heels although we told her they were not suitable for her. But her disappointed expression told us that it was tantamount to her happiness.
We were sad to have to say No and even sadder that she thought that high heeled shoes would make her happy.
Howerver, it turned out that she did not know better. A few minutes later without buying any shoes, she forgot about them and was instead looking forward to a planned visit to the park and hoping fervently that it would not rain.
The weather did hold up and we did go to the park. At the park, she was truly happy and we were happy that she was happy with things that a child should be happy with.

We hope she would always remember that material things would not give her true happiness.