"Penny Piggy"
A two year-old's favorite pastime.
When I was young, Mama told me a story about a precocious little girl of two (me) who loved putting pennies in her piggy bank so much that she wanted to “Penny Piggy” everything.
She did her “Penny Piggy” with pennies in her piggy bank, of course, but she also loved to “Penny Piggy” clothes pins through a hole cut in the top of a large empty coffee can.
One afternoon, Mama heard this little girl saying, “Penny Piggy, Penny Piggy”. Mama knew she didn’t have the coffee can or her piggy bank down off the shelf so she went to the bedroom to check.
The little girl somehow had gotten hold of Mama’s pearl necklace, a gift from Daddy, and it broke. There were pearls in her lap and on the floor around her. She was sitting beside the hot air floor register and dropping the pearls in, one by one, saying “Penny Piggy” with each of them.
Then in between those, she put a couple of pearls in her mouth and swallowed them with another “Penny Piggy” for each.
I’m sorry I ate your beautiful pearl necklace, Mama. I miss and love you.
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Sweet story
LOL!/OMG! Mom's are the greatest, aren't they. You lived to tell the tale. I can't help but hope the pearls were somehow recovered, but they would've gone straight into the furnace, right? And the ones you swallowed ... ahem ... well ... Mom's are amazing, aren't they.