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Today was Trinity’s first day of Winter break. We’d planned on a movie to celebrate, but when Jon and I got home from some holiday errands she was settled in front of the T. V. watching “Once Upon a Mattress”, with Tracy Ullman and Carol Burnett. Grandma went home, and we did a rushed dinner so we could make the movie. We’d already bought tickets on-line. But Trin was having such a good time with the movie, and none of us seemed eager to go out.
Jon and I came up with a novel idea. We asked Trin if she would rather stay home and watch “Once Upon a Mattress,” or see the movie at the theatre. She thought we’d be insulted that she wanted to stay home rather than go out with us. We were trying to pretend that we actually wanted to go out for her sake, when what we truly wanted was to stay home, desperately so. It was almost a GIFT OF THE MAGI moment, you know the O’ Henry story. Anyway, Trinity finally confessed that she’d rather stay home. When we said, sure, she gave me a huge hug, and went dancing back to the living room, where she preceded to dance and sing to the musical. I was so glad that I hadn’t put a false face on things and pretended I wanted to go out to the movie. I was so glad that all three of us told the truth, and got to do what we wanted to do, instead of what we were supposed to do.
I got to go up and have a nice long bath complete with candles. Trinity watched her musical, then she and Jon played video games. When I came down she was playing Lego Star Wars, and being an evil Princess. Hmm, choking powers.
A good time was had by everyone. I think much better than if we’d gone out to see the movie. We’ll probably go out and see it while she’s off school, but tonight we wanted to hibernate. It was worth the price of three movie tickets to be able to relax tonight. I guess, it says something about all three of us that we’d rather stay in than go out. Maybe that we’ve all been a little too busy lately, and a nice, slow night at home was just what the doctor ordered.