Happiness Is a New Bottle of Ketchup

As a child, I had a book by Charles Schultz called "Happiness Is." In it, the famed Peanut's character author laid out simple sketches of Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the whole gang with one sentence statements about what defines happiness... Happiness is a warm puppy... Happiness is having someone who cares...

Last week we were going to meet our friends with two first names at the Zoo. I didn't tell the boys what we were doing - just that we had a surprise after rest. During lunch, Ezra and Asher were trying to guess what said surprise might be. Ezra had several good guesses. "Mommy, are we going to a new park? Do we get to play a new game? Are we going for a bike ride?" After many unsuccessful guesses, Asher chimed in. "Are we going to get new ketchup?" What? To Asher, happiness is a new bottle of ketchup.