Imagine…..

Let’s say you are aged 5 years and younger and are staying in yet another place away from home without your toys, books and things to do and are bored. What would you do? For my kids it was easy. They played restaurant! We’ve been on the road for the last little bit and have stayed in 5 different places in the last 5 days so it has been stressful. James and I were busily getting ready to go to our next meeting and they were busily looking for things to do. I noticed that suddenly things seemed very organized. The table in the room was covered with Ethan’s special blanket for a tablecloth. James had a piece of paper and was taking orders. “What would you like to drink?” he asked. They went around the table where everyone else was sitting. Soda was the general consensus, though one of them wanted apple juice. (This is kind of funny since they don’t get soda very often – only a few times in the year!). He carefully “wrote” this down and then went and got each person’s water bottle and set it in front of them. Then he wanted to know how old they were – a common question we get when we go to restaurants since some of them are the right age to still eat for free! Ethan declared himself to be the ripe old age of 7. John said that Elizabeth was his girlfriend and they were both 10. Guess its time to have a talk with them about dating! Finally, he wanted their orders. Ethan wanted pizza and tacos and other things. They all wanted brownies and ice cream. Elizabeth wanted chocolate cake and ice cream and John wanted tacos and brownies. Actually, the majority of their orders were dessert foods!

Then they switched. James was still taking orders but this time Ethan was “cooking”. Again, drink orders were taken. Then food orders. This time, when he asked their ages, John and Elizabeth discussed it. He thought they should be 17. She thought she should be 12 and he should be 17. Then they ordered again – tacos and chocolate cake and ice cream!

Isn’t it funny to sometimes see life through the eyes of a child? I would never have guess that they were paying such close attention to the happenings around them but apparently they are! It’s so nice to know that they enjoy life and the things we are all living right now. We get to do things that I never even thought about doing as a child but they all take it in stride and enjoy every minute of it.