We went to see Disney’s “The Game Plan” at the local drive-in this weekend. The little girl in the movie, who steals the show in my humble opinion, had a Bedazzler. While I don’t remember a thing about it, my eldest daughter said she always wanted one. (And of course, I didn’t get her one.) In case you don’t know what it is, it is a little press that embeds little jewel-glittery things on just about anything.
The movie was cute and very-family friendly. But a wicked sub-plot ran through it, but only in my car. (The hubby had the boys in his car, I got the girls as we don’t all fit in one vehicle.)
And the silly Bedazzler kept getting mentioned all through the movie, opening up more opportunities for her to remind me how we deprived her of a happy and glittery childhood like, “I always wanted one of those, I wished more than anything to have one of those, I asked for one of those every Christmas, Everyone had one but me, I remember I cried when I didn’t get that for my birthday, etc.) Of course she forgot how I helped stock her expansive bead collection that took up 1/4 of her bedroom for most of her preteens, and my efforts protecting it from her younger siblings eying it up like hungry crows.
Next time I am driving in the boy car. They eat more but their memories are a lot shorter.
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“I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.†~ Rodney Dangerfield
13 responses so far ↓
1 Karen Vogel // Sep 30, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Oh, boy, do I know what I would give your eldest daughter for Christmas! And nothing else, mind you….
2 Joe // Sep 30, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Drive-in! Wow! Sounds cool. I saw 3:10 to Yuma on a night out with the wife this weekend (the first in…a long time). I think either you need a mini van or to switch cars. LoL! Laters Mary.
3 Mary // Oct 1, 2007 at 8:34 am
Karen – Oh, yes. I am hoping to find a used one on ebay unless she makes some kind of atonement between now and then.
Joe – Yes, the drive-in is really fun and we are lucky to have one around. I don’t think my husband and I have seen a movie together (with no kids around) in 100 years. I got rid of the minivan a couple of years ago (for smaller SUV) and kind of regret it now. (One of the few times I was wrong.)
4 Joe // Oct 1, 2007 at 11:45 am
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5 Karen Vogel // Oct 1, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Aaack – you have no e-mail contact, so I’ll tell you here – the powder really didn’t work very well….you just need to hide your chocolate somewhere else….
6 Writing Nag // Oct 2, 2007 at 11:47 am
those Bedazzler commercials in the 70′s were awful. So funny…I think it went Bedazzler commercial, LightBrite commercial, and some Ron Popeil commercial between every kid show.
7 Keli // Oct 2, 2007 at 12:56 pm
I think you’ll find a whole new set of blog material should you ride in the boy car. Isn’t the grass always greener on the other side (or in the other car in this case)?
8 New Diva on the Blog // Oct 2, 2007 at 1:58 pm
How could you be so heartless–witholding the Bedazzler is cruel and unusual. I know ’cause I don’t have one either.
9 Mary // Oct 2, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Karen – what was that about chocolate powder? (My email contact is on my About page.)
Writing Nag – yeah, it was so bad I even wanted a LiteBrite myself.
Keli – I probably will get some good stories but its the smells and sounds that usually keep me out of the boy car.
And New Diva – I am crying for you now, your poor thing. But for only 19.95 (online purchase) you can be healed. Praise the Lord!
10 Paula // Oct 2, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Whatever cruelty you exhibited by withholding a Bedazzler is more than made up for by the fact you supported her BEAD collection. I can only think of the stray beads crunched underfoot, caught in crevices or sucked up by the vacuum (this is what happens with my son’s itsy bitsy legos).
11 Mary // Oct 2, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Paula – you are so right. We still are finding beads in cracks and crevices. We laugh and try to remember where we got them from as each bead had a particular story that went along with how we got it.
12 Julianne // Oct 3, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Your daughter’s bedazzler is my Snoopy Slushie Machine. I always wanted one and never got it. I’m 32 years old and I still remind my mother of this deprivation every time we buy the kids a slushie.
13 Deborah Robinson // Nov 28, 2007 at 4:11 pm
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