Do I Have Enough Bucks, Mommy?

This morning I was scrapping together quarters to get a cup of coffee on the way into the office.  In our current financial situation, I hardly ever buy coffee.  We have it for free at the office so; I don’t take on the additional expense.  However, this morning, I had to train a few co-workers in one of our India offices.  With the time difference being so great, I volunteered to start the training at 5:30 am , my time.  What was I thinking?  I did the training from home and finished just in time for our son to wake up and order his breakfast.  After getting him his eggs and toast, sprinting through the shower and jumping into my clothes, I started to search for coffee money.  I was exhausted and needed a little something to get me thru the hour commute to the office.  My son said that he had some quarters in his piggy bank.  I told him that he was sweet but that money was for him.  He shrugged his shoulders and went back to sipping his juice and watching his morning shows.  Once my husband was out of the shower and had eyes on the boy, I jetted out the door with my dollar fifty in change.  Once in the car, I realized that I had another fifty cents in the door handle compartment.  SCORE!  I was able to get a piping hot pumpkin spice coffee to get me to work.

When I got home tonight, my son came to me with his play wallet.  He was holding it in his little 4 year old hands, tapping on it and asking, “Mommy, do you think I have enough bucks in here to buy you a coffee?”  I welled up immediately.  What an amazing boy.