Auntie Em! Its a Twister....

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So my almost 5 year old decided to rent the Wizard of Oz the other day from the video store. I was thrilled as this movie is much more my style than the marathon of Barbie movies we seem to have been watching lately. We sit down to watch the movie and it brings back so many memories of when I was a kid and they only showed the movie once a year and it was a HUGE deal. I mean HUGE with popcorn and pop (even in the living room - gasp!) I got to stay up late and sleep in my sleeping bag on the living room floor and....ok enough about me back to the story.

So the tornado starts up and my daughter starts asking questions. Then the tornado lifts the house in the air...more questions.....the house lands on the witch...more questions.....the the little munchkins come out....different questions (that is for a different day). I am not so 'in' to watching this movie anymore. Can't we just watch it for pete's sake. But the question that keeps coming back is - Mommy is there going to be a tornado here? Will the tornado pick up our house and land on a bad witch.

Now I can think of a few bad witches I would like it to land on and my mind starts to wander and I get a wicked faraway look in my eyes......oh yeah back to the story again.

So I reassure the little one and tell her that there will not be a tornado and if there was it wouldn't pick up our house and that there is no such thing as an evil witch (although that was really a lie because there are some and if my house were flying so help me.....oops sorry)

So fast forward 2 days and ---you guessed it----tornado! My husband and I knew the weather was starting to get kind of ugly so we decided to go downstairs and play. While the kids were distracted in the toy room we got the radio and the flashlight and some blankets, the phone, etc.
We cleared out the mound of crap under the stairs. By this time the kids are bored and out watching tv with us and of course the weather keeps coming on every 2 minutes. And being the genious she is...she caught on pretty quick that the guy on the tv kept saying tornado...and then pretty soon he says the name of our town and the word tornado...and you can see the wheels-a-turnin'. I am sure she is wondering about this time....
1. mom lied and there really are tornadoes
2. we are in the basement because she thinks the tornado is going to take our house away (lied again)
3. there are only 2 females down here and I know I am not the witch so it has to be mom.

We made it through the tornado warning. We read about 40 books by flashlight under the stairs and listened to the radio. There were no freak outs, no panic attacks and glad to say my children handled it well too! I know she is only almost 5 but I did realize that it is time to start telling her the truth about some things. Tornadoes happen and they are scary even for adults. And there is no yellow brick road that is going to take you to the land of Oz to see a wizardwho will help you with all your problems. However she should know that she will be surrounded by men with no brain, no heart and no courage. Hopefully it won't be all in one man - but she should be prepared!!