I am reminded again of the joy one little one receives when given the privilege of helping mommy with the dishes. The old kitchen chair comes up to the sink, and the tea towel is happily clenched in hand, and the dishes are there to dry. What fun!

I watched this little one helping her mother and I watched her helping me when she is in my home, that is how I know whereof I speak. Another reason I know the great joy this simple task brings to little ones is because...

...only 53 years ago I was standing on an old kitchen chair, in another kitchen, clutching a tea towel, and helping my mother dry the dishes. My how time flies.

I was only going to share the first two photos, but then I saw this one with her bangs down and another sweet, little smile on her face, and I just had to share.

I close with this comment from Harriet Beecher Stowe expressing a feeling from my heart, as I reflect on these pictures;

"I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourself."

God bless you little one!