Today Brianna and I were playing Barbies. I was Prince Eric and she was Liz and their three-year-old daughter Sarah. It was just a few days after their wedding and they were still on their honeymoon (yeah--don't even try to figure that one out.). She said, "Okay, now, where should they be--Dallas? or Claude? or where?" I just shook my head and said, "Not Claude. How about Paris?" She said, "Okay--Paris is a pretty nice place." So I started by walking Prince Eric into the room and saying ,"During my morning walk, I picked up some great-looking donuts (baguettes will have to wait till I feel up to explaining them.) and fresh fruit for our morning snack." "Oh--nice. Thanks, " says Liz. Then she continues, "Well, as you know, our afternoon routine is to go to the dollar store--the princess dollar store, of course. Yesterday I found a crib and a high chair for Sarah there." :)
As we passed a Dollar General earlier today, our friend Barbara said, "Oh--that's my kind of store." Brianna quickly said, "Oh, we like Dollar Trees better because everything in them actually is one dollar." Right now, Brianna's favorite stores are Dollar Tree, Half-Price Books, and --coming in at number one--the Garland Thrift store. I will be so sad if the day comes when she turns up her nose at the idea of shopping at this kind of store.