We were having dinner last night. Spaghetti and garlic bread, a simple and favourite family staple. I had been updating Beloved on my appointment Monday with the midwife, and told Tristan that the “ladies who help the baby come out” said that he and Simon should come to the office one day so they can hear the baby’s heart beat and even feel the shape of the baby. (How amazing is that? I can’t imagine my OB offering to host my kids for a shared family appointment. Matter of fact, the midwives encouraged it. I made the right choice in going with the midwives for this baby. I’m so happy with them.)<\/p>\n
So Tristan and I started talking about the baby, and he tells me that mommies go away to have their babies. (This also builds on a conversation from a few days before, where we read an “Arthur<\/a>” book about a dog that goes missing and it turns out she’s hidden to have her puppies.) I say yes, mommies go to the hospital to help the babies come out.<\/p>\n “And Padm\u00c3\u00a9 <\/a>went away to have baby Luke and baby Leia,” he observes. I’m nodding in half-remembered agreement of the mythology of the last movie of the second Star Wars trilogy – which the boys aren’t allowed to watch because they’re too violent. Before I can see what’s coming, he looks at me with his solemn, gorgeously clear gray-green eyes and says, “And Padm\u00c3\u00a9 dies when she goes away to have the babies. But you won’t die, Mommy.”<\/p>\n I’m so rocked by the speed with which this previously innoccuous conversation has degenerated that I can only think to say, “Yes, well, but – that’s just a story. That doesn’t really happen. EVER.”<\/p>\n Tristan carries on, unperturbed and in a tone that is both reassuring and seeking assurance. “You won’t die for a long, long time, right Mommy? Not until you’re very old.”<\/p>\n Swallowing hard against a tide of emotion that I absolutely cannot allow to show on my face, I repeat again that it’s just a story, it’s like the cartoons on TV and not real, and change the topic as fast as I possibly can. <\/p>\n Afterwards, I confront Beloved and ask how they know Padm\u00c3\u00a9 dies if they haven’t seen the movie. He has no idea, but thinks it might be in the Star Wars lego video game they love.<\/p>\n That’s it. No more Star Wars, no more video games. We’re going back to all Blues Clues all the time around here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We were having dinner last night. Spaghetti and garlic bread, a simple and favourite family staple. I had been updating Beloved on my appointment Monday with the midwife, and told Tristan that the “ladies who help the baby come out” said that he and Simon should come to the office one day so they can … Continue reading “The one where she bans Star Wars from the house”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ah-me-boys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}