Somewhere in middle America, a beautiful little girl woke up on Christmas morning and fell in love with suede boots.  Her mother let out a sigh of huge relief, envisioning future shopping trips together.  In Milan. Paris. London. NYC. The two, for sure, were related and bound forever by common hobbies.

Enchanted.  The kindergartner tossed the boots on before opening her second present.  Trotting around in her new shoes she was side tracked for some time, which tickled her mother pink.  However.  In the end, she was equally as thrilled with a Nintendo DS as she was with the boots.  The kindergartner proclaimed that it was the best Christmas ever.  She did not part with the above said items all morning. Even to powder her nose in the ladies room, just minutes before attending Christmas mass.

One of those treasured presents ended up... in the throne.  While she was powdering her nose. "I don't know how.  It just fell in, Mama.  I fished it out of the toilet with my hands."  Well. Insert non Christian words here. The mother (whom just minutes ago was envisioning mother/daughter shopping trips) was found googling how much rice it took to save the electronic product from the urine induced trauma, to revive the said item.  Celebrating the birth of Jesus in an incredible cathedral the mother mourned the premature death of gift, caused by a careless middle child.

The extremely good looking and very compassionate mother of said kindergartner was troubled while sitting in the pew.  Was this the beginning?  Or the end?  How does one properly teach a child consequences, especially those arising from honest mistakes?  She thought while using all of her newly acquired investigative Catholic skills she just learned from her NetFlixed movie "Angels and Demons" noticing that the focus of the alter was the Alpha and the Omega.  The beginning.  The end.  A sure sign, duh.

Should the extremely good looking and very compassionate mother of said kindergartner:

A.  Pronounce the death of the gift, with no chance of revival.

B.  Proclaim that rebirth of gift is possible; as item was purchased from a store with a great return policy.

C.  Introduce Catholic guilt.  For the first time.

Found. On the ceiling of Holy Trinity.

Talk amongst yourselves.  Because I would HATE to be in that predicament.