Raising My Girls

After months of eager anticipation and questions of when this day would arrive, the movie SpeedRacer finally arrived in our mailbox from Netflix today.  Oh, the girls were ecstatic when I told them after school.  They wanted to watch it as soon as we walked in the house, but I held them off until their dad came home from work.

They heard his car coming up the driveway at ten ’til six.  The youngest ran to the door to greet her favorite guy.  The older two were shouting, “Daddy’s home! Daddy’s home!”  Such impatient little demons, they are.

Everyone crowded into the livingroom.  The girls laid in the floor, lined up from oldest to youngest.  The youngest was beside herself with excitement as she repeated over and over, “Go Speed, Go!” until the movie finally started.

It all went downhill from there.  LOL!  The youngest one’s excitement slowly waned with each passing minute.  She soon started whispering to her sisters, wiggling around, climbing up into my lap and then back down again.  Finally, after twenty minutes of movie, she asked to go in my room and watch Dora the Explorer.  That was it for her.

Next up was the middle daughter.  She’s eight years old and laste longer than the three year old… but only by another ten minutes!

I’m happy to say that the eleven year old made it all th way through the 2 hour 15 minute movie without any complaints.  She enjoyed it a lot.

So this is how our family movie nights go.  Loads of excitement and anticipation that quickly dwindles down to boredom, annoyance, and nothingness.  Ah well, maybe next time!  I enjoyed the movie though. 

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