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Date: 15 September 2008 10:40:09
.... love the film MammaMia.
I can't believe that I've succumbed to the mortal sin of seeing the same film twice, on two consecutive days. But I have. And I have a sneeky feeling I may be seeing it again before too long.
My sister came over on Friday and, for the first time in a while, we had a real girly night out. Smudgelet had a sleepover birthday party at his friend's house (the parents of that friend must be certifiably insane - I wonder really whether I ought to have let him stay in the care of two people who were mad enough to have eight small boys rampaging their house all night!). Which meant, of course, that I was freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. We decided to make the most of it (and the distraction) and when the local paper informed us that there was a singalong showing of MammaMia on in twenty minutes' time, the Smudgemobile was swiftly called into action and we shot along to the cinema... slightly nervous of deliberately putting ourselves in a potentially embarrassing situation, especially when we discovered the cinema was half empty, but determined to make the most of it anyway.
It.
Was.
Brilllllliantttttt.!
As was the meal we shared at one of my favourite eating places afterwards - goodness, we were almost as late to bed as the Smudgelet. (But at least we didn't have to be separated at 2.30 for talking too much!)
It was almost unavoidable that we should take the Smudgelet with us the following evening to see it again, sitting either side of him and singing tunelessly in the poor boy's ears. He didn't particularly enjoy the film as he was in "one of those moods" (Understandable, but frustratingly resistant to distraction) but yesterday he began to join in as we played my old ABBA tapes in the car on our long drive to take my sister home and to call in for a visit elsewhere... and now he's desperate to go and see it again, properly.
Hmmm... can I bear to see it a third time? ... ;o) Oh, in the spirit of maternal sacrifice I may just have to force myself to go! :D
Wish I had someone to go and see Grease with, though. :(