Lemonade

I love remembering when my children were younger. At that time, I wondered if I could explain things well enough. For example; my youngest daughter was about 3 and we had been having a lot of car trouble.She asked me if it was going to be okay? and patted my hand. So I told her that when "Life hands you lemons, make lemonade." At about the same time, my father had that old car towed away. She asked "Was it broken?" and he said, "No, it's a lemon, and they are going to take it to the junkyard" A few weeks later, we were watching TV. The program had a segement featuring a junkyard with one of those machines that flatten the cars. This caught her attention and it seemed to trouble her a little. {or so I thought} so I asked her if she was going to be okay? She didn't answer me because she was concentrating so hard. About that time the machine picked up this little yellow car and dropped it into the crusher. I asked her if she knew what they were doing? I didn't know why she was suddenly smiling until she said "Making lemonade."
Mother of four

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