The great thing about low expectations

..is that one is very easily pleased! Eric came back from my parents' house yesterday with a "video game" which he thought was the best thing ever! What it actually was, was a talking calculator of the kind which my dad gets sent every so often because he donates to charities for the blind; when you push a button, a voice says the number as it appears on the display. Not only was his "video game" a calculator, but it was a broken one! Something had broken inside the liquid crystal display so it has a big dark blob on the low end. Nevertheless, Eric was absolutely thrilled with it.

It reminded me of the first birthday party invitation Faith got last year when she had just turned seven. "They're going to have lunch and cake and riding scooters!" she kept telling me, in a manner that suggested she couldn't imagine so many wonderful things all happening at once. And they both still get a thrill from riding the escalator at the mall. The world is an exciting place when one is not yet jaded.