Gifts from a friend

Our infant teacher at school has a daughter who is 8 years old and a former princess fan herself. In addition to the princess bedding that Faith received a few weeks ago, Ms. Gloria has given her a travel thermos and then yesterday she broke out the "glass slippers" and more shirts. As Faith went through the bag she said, "I love it." to everything that she seen. After I explained to her that the "glass slippers" came from Cinderella's castle she was even more excited. Real princess slippers. Now the marriage to daddy will be complete. She has a princess ring to fit the size of her finger, glass slippers, dresses from Grace, and a crown from her birthday. As I sit back and think before she was born, "I can't handle the princess stuff. It is just too much." Now I realize that it is her world. It is any little girls world where they go if they read stories like this. I feel for other little girls who don't have as much imagination and story time to be able to enjoy this time of play. Do we read other stuff? Of course we do. And in time she may pretend to be those characters too. And what makes it all worth the trouble is when she refuses to wear anything else to the store but her princess attire and receives compliments from people. It makes her feel super special.