Wednesday, 10 March 2010 -- Day 80 (93)

My daughter, Maddy, was home sick from school again today. Sitting on the couch w/ her watching Snow White, I realized just as the witch transforms herself into the old hag, who will trick the little princess w/ the apple, that she looks like Marty Feldman. You know him, he was Igor in Young Frankenstein; very unmistakable with his bulging eyes. I wonder if he was the model for the witch's disguise. The dwarf Happy looks like Santa Claus. Never noticed that before. My girls used to love all the Disney animated movies, which is probably why they return to them when they don't feel well. Comfort movies are just like comfort foods. Snow White was the first book that Kenzie memorized. I remember standing in the doorway of the bathroom of our previous home w/ Mom behind the video camera, as she most often was, recording Kenzie "reading" a book at the age of two. She had the page turns down and everything. I still haven't found the courage to watch any of those videos, but it's encouraging that simple memories can comfort me and that a Disney movie can help them break through.