Zzzzzz's memories

As I do when I get the chance, which is pretty much never, I claimed the couch for a nap this afternoon. To lull me to sleep I searched for a movie to fill the empty house with familiar dialogue; it helps to lull me to sleep. If it’s a movie I’ve never seen, it keeps me awake, if it’s one I love like a favorite dessert, I sleep because I do not have to watch to enjoy, I only have to listen and remember. Baby Boom with Diane Keaton was my HBO afternoon nap-classic today.

My daughters and I have watched that movie so many times, we know the dialogue. The whole message of the movie regarding a woman’s roll in life as a wife and mother and as a career woman, is required watching for females. What I remember most about the movie is the first time we watched it.

My oldest daughter was about four when we watched that first time. At the ending, while the credits rolled, my daughter climbed up onto the coffee table and launched herself into my arms. We danced around the living room to the wonderful Bacharach music. It was a stunning mother daughter moment my daughter comments on whenever Baby Boom is mentioned. Today I watched the movie through fluttering eyelids and when the ending came I was sitting up and bawling. That little girl who held onto me so tightly that day as we danced is twenty-eight now. Where has the time gone? Why did it have to pass so quickly?

What movie brings you to tears?