....we are already booking tour dates.
Letter to my son, five years gone
8 years ago
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
The Winner Takes it All.....
...yes...the ABBA song is running through Ezra's Mommies' minds. I guess it could be Dancing Queen or, god forbid, S.O.S.. You are wondering why these songs are running through the minds of an ABBAless household or you are wondering why we have placed these said songs in your head and why would we do such a thing....well...
....it was date night. And, a very special one at that. Our cool babysitter was coming over to put E to bed while we saw a late show. Yup...a LATE show. Being at the movies after babe is in bed is a whole new world for these Mommies. It was our first. Imagine, two bug eyed parents running through the theater, giddy with excitement to the ticket window to purchase tickets for Dark Knight.
I know...you are asking,"you purchased them ahead of time, right"?
No.
We were those naive parents standing in a line with SOLD OUT flashing in our woeful eyes. What to do? Well, there was another movie at a time that would work and we would be home in time.....I think the conversation went like this,"Mamma Mia, Sure! We like musicals and after all we are getting married too."
We race each other up to the top floor (Momma took the elevator while Mommy took the excalator...it was a race. Mommy lost, but a darn good sport about it) and took our seats with popcorn and soda in hand for what would be the most interesting cultural events we have had in a very long time.
Mamma Mia! Holy Moly! We know we've have been out of commission for a while...but, we do believe we left Earth for about 2 hours.
First of all, as we settled in for the ride, Momma mentions to Mommy, "You know, I don't really like ABBA songs." Mommy shrugs it off and grabs the popcorn bag.
As the movie begins, and the first song is sung, we start to notice that the people next to us are singing along. People were laughing and clapping at every joke with much vigor. Meryl Streep flailed her body with much vigor. By the 8th song, the people next to us are still singing wildly as well as the people behind us and we are noticing that maybe we aren't so IN to this movie. We start searching the crowd and it appears we may be the only ones, but we hold each others hands and laugh till we cry at our situation. No one noticed....we hope....we are sure they thought we were enjoying the movie as much as they were. I think people stood up and started dancing at the closing credits....people were so into this movie. Sadly, we were not. We were virgins to being out late without Boy. Three whole years of movie theater deprivation....and, we so looked forward to it. And, I guess you can say we will never forget it.
We made it home after a glass of wine at our favorite neighborhood wine bar and a discussion about whether we know movie culture anymore and admitted to enjoying ourselves at least a little. Then as we pulled out the check book to pay our awesome babysitter, we did the math.
movie tickets + popcorn and soda + babysitter + a healing glass of wine = we will see Dark Knight on DVD.
....it was date night. And, a very special one at that. Our cool babysitter was coming over to put E to bed while we saw a late show. Yup...a LATE show. Being at the movies after babe is in bed is a whole new world for these Mommies. It was our first. Imagine, two bug eyed parents running through the theater, giddy with excitement to the ticket window to purchase tickets for Dark Knight.
I know...you are asking,"you purchased them ahead of time, right"?
No.
We were those naive parents standing in a line with SOLD OUT flashing in our woeful eyes. What to do? Well, there was another movie at a time that would work and we would be home in time.....I think the conversation went like this,"Mamma Mia, Sure! We like musicals and after all we are getting married too."
We race each other up to the top floor (Momma took the elevator while Mommy took the excalator...it was a race. Mommy lost, but a darn good sport about it) and took our seats with popcorn and soda in hand for what would be the most interesting cultural events we have had in a very long time.
Mamma Mia! Holy Moly! We know we've have been out of commission for a while...but, we do believe we left Earth for about 2 hours.
First of all, as we settled in for the ride, Momma mentions to Mommy, "You know, I don't really like ABBA songs." Mommy shrugs it off and grabs the popcorn bag.
As the movie begins, and the first song is sung, we start to notice that the people next to us are singing along. People were laughing and clapping at every joke with much vigor. Meryl Streep flailed her body with much vigor. By the 8th song, the people next to us are still singing wildly as well as the people behind us and we are noticing that maybe we aren't so IN to this movie. We start searching the crowd and it appears we may be the only ones, but we hold each others hands and laugh till we cry at our situation. No one noticed....we hope....we are sure they thought we were enjoying the movie as much as they were. I think people stood up and started dancing at the closing credits....people were so into this movie. Sadly, we were not. We were virgins to being out late without Boy. Three whole years of movie theater deprivation....and, we so looked forward to it. And, I guess you can say we will never forget it.
We made it home after a glass of wine at our favorite neighborhood wine bar and a discussion about whether we know movie culture anymore and admitted to enjoying ourselves at least a little. Then as we pulled out the check book to pay our awesome babysitter, we did the math.
movie tickets + popcorn and soda + babysitter + a healing glass of wine = we will see Dark Knight on DVD.
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