Through their eyes

Do you ever think your children are melodramatic? Are they little drama queens (or kings)? Do you wonder why everything is such a big deal? Why having the wrong color shoes is the end of the world or not finding the exact place where we left off in reading the story last night means bedtime tonight is in a complete shambles? Why do kids think the smallest problems are so important? I guess it's because those problems aren't small to them. To us, they overreact to minor glitches. But, if you flip the coin, they overreact to minor joys and we find that adorable. Today, I watched my children hunt for Easter eggs. At first, the oldest one was upset because we had to wait to stage the hunt until the little one came home from church. I thought it was going to get ugly. She was making a big deal of it, but she came to her senses. I thought things might get out of hand when they realized there were only three gold eggs this year instead of four. But, they handled it well. I think on a normal day, these little problems would have been made into big ones. Maybe the excitement of the day made all the little problems stay little. Then, they opened up their eggs and the tiniest treasures became the biggest gifts. So, being dramatic was super cute. Seeing those jelly beans and chocolate eggs through their eyes, watching them help each other find eggs and seeing how surprised they were to find them in odd places - it was the sweetest thing. So, all the drama they saved for their mama today - well... mama loved it.