Donation

Maria goes to a Catholic preschool (All Saints -- love it) and each year on Ash Wednesday, they are given a little cardboard donation box to fill with coins all during Lent. Maria didn't quite understand it so this is exactly what I said to her:

Mama: "It is a donation box. Donation is when you give something and in this box you give money and it goes to people who need it. I think this money will go to someone in another country."

Maria: "oh. cool."

So later that day we were driving to ballet and Maria was holding the box. Jamie wasn't that interested in it, but that didn't stop Maria from telling him all about it:

Maria: "This is a donation box, Jamie."

Jamie: "oh"

Maria: "We give money to it. And since our country has some money, we give it to other countries who don't have any money like Mexico or Japan or maybe even India."

Jamie: "oh. Mexico."