I love to listen to the kids tell me about a movie that they've seen or a book they've read. All that enthusiasm and excitement in their voices as their words come tumbling out....
This afternoon Juliana told me about Marmaduke - a movie she watched yesterday at a friend's birthday party. We sat at the table while she told me, in great detail about the story. Of course, it was told out of order, leaving the middle of one sub-plot to start another and then leave that one to return to the resolve of the first one. In fact she started with the ending and then told it again to finish her recap off. The names kept changing and, honestly, I don't know if she was talking about humans or dogs most of the time and I was a little afraid to ask :)
I nodded my head, I said "oh my" the requisite number of times, and I asked a couple of questions. (Admittedly, I also left my body for a minute or two thinking of our plans for dinner.)
After she'd been talking for about 10 minutes she stopped mid-sentence to ask "are you really interested in this?" "Oh, I am definitely interested in this - it sounds like such a fun movie!" I replied.
In the end, I know that it's a story about a dog with an owner named Phil. There is a Bisto or a Busto or maybe a Bosto in the movie (she couldn't exactly remember so it kept changing). And I know that (spoiler alert!) it ends on a gassy note.
Fifteen minutes at the table with my girl and her story.
Time well spent, if you ask me.
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