Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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.
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...that video truly sounds adorable. I'm sorry that it's so very hard for you, I can definitely relate.
ReplyDeleteAfter my mom died, I found a video of my brother, myself and she was in bits and pieces of it... I watched it too soon, broke down crying, put it on a shelf at my then boyfriend's house and someone destroyed it. It's the only tape I had of my childhood and it's gone. Now that I think I'd be able to handle it, it's no longer there. If I'd waited to take it from the shelf at "home" then it would've been there for me now.
I hope you find enough comfort to have an easier time going through your video-logged time with your mother. It's really good that you're allowing yourself the time to ease into it because, in my impatience, I damaged myself further than the event itself had on its own.