Reading all the wonderful movie reviews on some of my favorite blogs has made me nostalgic for the days when movie going was as easy as thinking about it. Well not quite, but it was fairly simple and required no advance planning. In the post child world it requires a full fledged project plan. Here’s a brief description of my movie watching ventures before and after the birth of my daughter.
Before Kids:
Its evening time…
1. Think about watching a movie.
2. Is it a weekday or weekend? …don’t care!
3. Convince husband to go with you.
4. Argue about which movie to watch the chick flick /drama or action movie?
5. Win argument. Grab a quick bite and head to the movies.
6. Watch previews and decide which ones you want to see next.
7. Movie starts… watch movie.
8. Wake up husband after the movie ends.
9. If husband does not want to go, call up girlfriends and plan a girls movie night for Friday. On Friday, watch a total girly movie and discuss it later.
After Kids:
1.Think about watching a movie… keep thinking for a long time
2. Hear about a really good movie. Keep wanting to see it.
3. Think about options…
a. Hire a baby sitter? Little angel(not quite) will not stay with a baby sitter!
b. Take little angel with you? Might get kicked out of the theatre because of a screaming toddler!
c. Convince girlfriends to do a girls night out(and their husbands to watch the kids).
Though difficult, 'c' is the only real option for you and also for your girlfriends.
4. Husbands agree? Finalize a date…. someone cancels, plan again and so on..
5. The day arrives, either yours or someone’s kid falls sick.. cancel plan.
6. Start the planning cycle again.
7. On the planned day, assuming that everything else goes smoothly, everyone meets at someone’s place.
8. Argue about what to feed adults and kids for dinner. Arrange for food for adults and kids.
9. Try to feed kids who have no interest in eating.
10. Try to make kids go to bed.
11. Once they are in bed, give instructions to husband about handling them if they should wake up.
12. Head to the movies.
13. Watch previews and wonder when in the world will you ever be able to see all these cool movies(somehow they seem more interesting now that you know you can’t watch them all)
14. Movie starts… struggle to keep your eyes open.
15. Think about going straight to bed after movie ends.
16. After the movie ends, talk about how much fun this was.
17. Say “We should do this again sometime soon”
4 comments:
LOL!I hear you girl,this is the story of my life too:)but thank god for DVDs,I do manage to catch up on most of the favorites:)
fuzzy,
yep...thank god for DVDs
That was an interesting read. :-) And what fuzzylogic said.
oh i'm sorry... are you talking abt my life?! :)
yeah.. and we still want to have babies even after hearing these stories
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