The Deep Thinker

In this last week, Presley has been doing some real deep thinking and asking hard questions.

Three of the hardest so far:

1) "Is God Real?" I asked what she has heard. She said that they tell her on TV that God is all around your heart. I asked her how that made her feel. She smiled and said that it made her feel good. I smiled back at her and told her that is all that mattered. John and I don't want to ever sway the girls one way or another when it comes to that. I am sure more deep discussions are coming like that in the near future!

2) "Why don't I have Daughter's Day? You have Mother's Day, Daddy has Father's day, but I have nothing." I told her that she has her birthday days. She responded with that isn't anything like Mother's or Father's Day because Nate and all of her other boy cousins also have a birthday so that doesn't celebrate Daughter's Day. Then I told her that I cherish her every day and I don't need just one day to celebrate her being my daughter. She said she wants a Daughter's Day. Then she proceeded with just picking a day for it.....EVERY TUESDAY!

I can't win, so we called Grandma Beth. And came up with a great idea. We'll celebrate us all being daughter's at the Butterfly Garden in Fredricksburg when we go down there. Whew...Presley agreed to that! That EVERY TUESDAY business would have made us go super broke!

Then while we where walking around Walmart, I mention in passing to Presley that all women where daughters. That confused her so bad! She disagreed and said that her grandmother's mom have passed so they aren't daughters anymore. So we had to have an entire discussion in Walmart about that until she understood that even if a mommy passes away, her daughter never stops being her daughter.

3) "Do kids pass away?" Whewwww.....Deep breath. How to I answer that? She asked me this as I drove. My answer to her, "Yes, unfortunately it does happen." I explained that a child could pass away the same as an adult could via accidents or illnesses. I asked why she asked that. She started to tear up and said she never wanted to pass away. She and I were both fighting back the tears. I told her that it is mommy and daddy's job to keep her safe and healthy so that never happens.

WHEWWWWW! How come she thinks of these things? Do any other kids...5 year olds...ask these same hard questions?