The small, big, of things is you just seriously have to seize your moment. You might be the underdog, you might feel like you won’t matter. But trust me, if you do something as small as just step forward, sometimes you make a big impact.

My two girls, for instance, are highly competitive. In fact, their goal in these few recent years, has been only to get each other’s goat and one-up the other. It makes their play time more productive. It also causes them to think outside the box and be creative and do something incredible that they might not have otherwise done had they not had the drive to out-do the other. It also gives my husband and I some major headaches. But it’s all for the greater good. They are still in discovery-mode with life.

Isla (younger by 17 months) has recently made her small contributions and yet made big impacts. Her sister and her can be picking out outfits from their shared closet and want the same pants. Isla has learned she can quickly grab it from Evy and just take off running like a rocket. She’s tiny, but she has developed  an unsurpassable sprint.  They also fought the other day over making a fort. Evy wanted a specific blanket all to herself. It was plenty big for the two of them, but she wasn’t going to share. Isla got fed up with arguing and took the tiny pillow out from under Evy’s head and suddenly Evy stopped caring about the blanket. My recent all time favorite was when Evy wouldn’t share the signing time on the karaoke machine. She wouldn’t share the microphone, so Isla danced instead. She danced until she heard enough of Evy and then just walked over and disconnected the microphone. She looked over to check her big sister’s reaction as she did this. Isla with all her 21 months under her belt, wanted to do a small but big thing that would get back at her 3 year old sister. And it worked. Evy couldn’t figure out what happened and she was so upset. Isla however, was not sad. She found a way around big sister.

Is it bad when I laugh at these moments?  I do try and make things better, but I can’t help but sit back a moment and separately cheer them each on for what they accomplish. You don’t have to be the big guy to win something. Just do something small.

Thank you for reading.