Tender Sister Moment

As the girls climb into the van every day after school I have a little routine.  I always say "Well hello beautiful girls.  I missed you."  To which they reply "Hi mom, we missed you too."  Then I always ask about their day as we are driving off.  Usually I get the normal 'fine'. 

Well Friday Princess E burst into tears.  She began to tell us about how her closest friends were shutting her out that day.  They kept telling her to go away or stop asking so many questions or just whispering to each other and not including her and it really hurt her feelings.  That her other friends were telling her that she should break up with those friends.  She said in a new burst of tears, "but that would just break my heart mom!  They have been my friends for the longest time and I just can't break up with them even if they are mean to me."  I told her that maybe her other friends were right.  That maybe it was time to look at the friends who WERE treating her right and who were kind.

It was about this point that Princess M piped up.  In a tender loving voice she said "Maybe you can try what I did yester day when Piper came over.  You know how she always just wants to go home and we don't know why?  Well she was doing that again yesterday an I just said, I wish I knew what it was like to be you.  And she turned around and said to me, Why?  And I just said because I just wonder what your life is like?  And you know what she turned around and stayed and we talked all about it.  So maybe you can say something like that to your friends and they will want to talk to you."

Of course I was in the front seat beaming ear to ear and wondering where this sage advise had come from deep inside her little self.  And that she was SO sincere in wanting to help her very sad big sister.

Princess E didn't take the advise very well, but I reaffirmed what a great suggestion it was and how great I thought it was that she had thought of it all by herself and used it the day before.  I was so proud of her.

As we were walking up the stairs into the house I said "Hey girls, if you didn't have any other friends in this life, who is the 1 best friend you will always have??"  They both looked at me and said, "um I don't know."  I stopped them and made them face each other and give each other a hug.  "Each other.  Your sister will always be your bestest friend even when no one else is."