Ava is a very sensitive girl that is afraid to make a mistake. She doesn’t often smile because she always worries. Ava even gets upset if she sees a ‘Big Person’ squish a pesky fly!
Ava is very quiet and loves to read and write. She ‘borrowed’ an old toy doll chest from the ‘Big People’ that she stores all of her favourite stories that she wrote. So far she has 35 stories. She is going to be a writer when she grows up!
Her ‘good deed’ of the day for the ‘Big People’ was to close the big back door that ‘Lily,’ one of the ‘Big People’ children, left open on the way to school.
It was a tough job for little Ava because she is only about the height of your dad’s blackberry. But she pushed with all her might to close the door and scooted back into the vent to get back home safely.
Ava was feeling bad because last week she ‘borrowed’ her dad’s pencil, a golf pencil from the ‘Big People,’ without asking. This morning her dad asked if she had it and she told him ‘no.’ She felt bad for lying.
She knew it was wrong but she didn’t want to get in trouble for taking it without asking. Ava was feeling so bad that she started to cry and decided that she needed to fix this. Ava needed to do the right thing and tell the truth.
She found her dad cleaning the living room with his water bottle top lid, used for the wash bin and piece of foam for the scrubber that was from an old mattress in the ‘Big People’ basement.
He was in a grumpy mood because he didn’t have his pencil to finish his chore list.
Ava quietly told her dad she made a mistake and was sorry she took his pencil without asking.
He was disappointed at first but then told Ava he was proud of her for telling the truth. Her mother was watching and gave her a big hug. She told her it was okay to make a mistake but she always needs to tell the truth.
That made Ava smile.
