"You forgot to give me my five dollars!"

Richard and I recently decided that we would give AK an allowance of $5 each week that she is with us.  AK and I had read the Berenstain Bears' Trouble With Money book which talks about how Brother and Sister are ultimately given an allowance to help them learn how to handle money.  Of course, AK thought the idea of an allowance was quite grand! 

With life being as busy as it has lately, I had completely forgotten that we'd started this practice until that particular book was pulled out for bedtime reading on Sunday.  While Richard read the book, I raced around trying to find five $1 bills for AK's allowance!  I managed to find enough and brought it back to her room just as Richard finished up the book.  We discussed the idea of the allowance again to remind AK how it worked, and agreed that any monies she needs for certain school events might come out of her allowance (we're talking $1 or $2 a week that she's with us, so still plenty to save and play with!). 

I put the whole allowance thing out of my mind until the next week AK is with us, but tonight, she had other ideas...  We did the usual bedtime routine and were just about to head downstairs when she came running out of her bedroom...  yelling "Mommy, you forgot to give me my five dollars!".  I have to admit...  I had to work hard to not laugh...  while the accountant in me is furiously calculating in my head exactly how much it would be each month to give her an allowance EVERY DAY!  Ha ha ha!  She didn't seem too upset when we reminded her it was a weekly event, and not a daily one, so part of me wonders if she was trying to trick me into giving her an allowance off of the agreed-upon schedule!

Too funny of a story to not share!  xo