I’m so happy that we have plans for this weekend. Last weekend, we didn’t have anything in particular to do and George was out for a good part of it, the weather wasn’t very accomodating, and we didn’t do much of anything. It wasn’t a complete bore-fest but it wasn’t exciting either.
At one point on Saturday, Hayley wanted to watch a movie so I asked what she wanted to see. She started looking through the usual selection and wasn’t particularly enthused. I had some dishes to wash and was tired of standing around while she hemmed and hawed so I looked quickly on the shelf and found my old video (VHS! Gasp!) of Fern Gully. I said, “here, watch this. It was one of my favorite movies, it has fairies, you’ll like it.” Actually, that movie came out when I was in college, and it was still one of my favorites. I still remember one of my friends and I used to regularly quote Batty. I’m not sure what that says.
In any case, she watched it and really enjoyed it. She liked it so much that she asked to see it again the next day.
On Monday afternoon, she came home and I asked what sorts of things she had done in school that day. It turns out that every Monday they get their little journal books, and since not many of them can write much of anything, they draw a picture or two of something that they did that weekend. I asked Hayley what she drew.
“I drew a picture of me watching Fern Gully.”
Sheesh! I have never had any problems with letting my kids watch TV or a movie (obviously) and I don’t hide that fact. But still, I was somewhat mortified that the thing that stood out the most for an entire weekend was watching a movie and that she actually drew a picture of herself sitting in front of the TV.
Good thing we have a birthday party to attend today and maybe some fun stuff tomorrow too. She did watch a Princess Stories DVD today though, so I’ll have to be sure to remind her of the party on Monday morning so that she’ll have something good to draw!
(Speaking of birthdays, Breanna turns two on Tuesday. TWO. I am somewhat in shock.)
