Cue the Tears

Brian, being the thoughtful dad that he is, got the girls a new movie. It is about a girl and her horse, a sweet Disney movie. You may be thinking what I am thinking...uh-oh a Disney movie. It seems that all Disney movies are tear jerkers. Why IS that?!?!? We put the movie in and went on to do chores around the house before putting the girls to bed. As the evening continues and Ally has already been put to bed, I see a little blond flash out of the corner of my eye. I look and she is gone but I hear.....sniffling. Is she crying? I go into the room and find Maddie SOBBING in front of her movie. The tears were just streaming down her face. Her heart was breaking over this horse. "Baby, what is wrong?" I asked. "This movie makes me sad." she cries to me. Cue the tears. My eyes start watering. I should have known....that darn Disney movie. Brian and I rewound the movie to the "sad part" where the poor horse gets hurt.We watched it with her and consoled her explaining that it is just a movie and sometimes sad things happen. Well, the movie got better and the horse "pulled through." :-)Maddie was no longer upset.

The lesson I learned from this, other than never leave her alone with a Disney movie :-), is how much I want to protect her from ever having her heart broken. Seeing her sobbing made me want to "hide" her from the world; keep her in a safe place at least till she is thirty. Obviously, that is not realistic but my overprotectiveness is kicking in. I remember calling my mother "overprotective" in a bad way. As a teenager..."Geez, my mom is SO overprotective!" Now I KNOW in my heart how right she was to be just that. (Music to mother's ears, I am sure.)I won't mind being called an over protective mom, at all. Bring it on!

Oh, and don't worry if you do not see Maddie for the next twenty-five years......