So Christmas vacation is here. People are taking their much anticipated vactions from work to spend time with their families. Children are out of school for a few weeks only to drive us all up the walls after the second day off. As parents we have to figure out how to entertain our little darlings or go mad. For those of us who have planned for the event there are options.
We could send them to the grandparents. Seems like a viable solution as long as our parents don't get wise to the ploy.
If it weren't for the winter-time freeze we could shoo them outside to play. But as we've all seen lately, snow and extremely cold winds are just about everywhere these days.
Shopping is always a great idea - if you want to be driven crazy by their shrill voices crying out for everything coating the shelves. No, that doesn't sound like a great idea to me either.
Instead, we were forced to do the one thing that we always try to avoid. The thing that is so short lasting that the expense isn't justifiable. The thing that leaves your mind dancing with visions and your children chattering like crazy in the car.
We took them to the movies.
If you can stand - or have been conditioned by your children to enjoy - animated films, then pile up in the car and head on over to your local theater for two hours of colorful delight and loads of laughs while watching Tangled.
This is the classic tale of Rapunzel updated into a fantastic comedy for the whole family.
We laughed all the way through the movie and even clapped when it was over (no, not because it was so horrid we were happy to have survived the experience). It was genuinely good. We chatted and laughed about it all the way home and even now, a week later are still revisiting the film in our minds to share what we thought about it with one another.
This is the movie to see.
So, I'm glad we didn't pawn our children off on their grandparents or that their grandparents were too smart to fall for the trick.
I'm glad the weather hasn't been fine enough to turn our darlings out to play.
I'm glad Santa came and provided all those little things my children thought they'd die without.
And, I'm glad they go back to school in a few days.
