Comments on: What’s sadder than missing the Sound of Music once? http://www.lesbiandad.net/2007/11/27/whats-sadder-than-missing-the-sound-of-music-once/ notes from the crossroads of mother and father Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:06:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: LesbianDad http://www.lesbiandad.net/2007/11/27/whats-sadder-than-missing-the-sound-of-music-once/#comment-53982 LesbianDad Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:52:09 +0000 http://lesbiandad.net/2007/11/27/whats-sadder-than-missing-the-sound-of-music-once/#comment-53982 Yegods! O woe is you! All umpteen of you! Wow! That is sooooooooo much sadder than my missing Dame Julie on the big screen! I vow now, whenever I begin to feel sorry for myself, to think of four hospital admissions and a baptism. Heavens to murgatroids. <i>Mary Poppins</i> is of course the first thing I think of to follow up <i>Sound of Music</i>. (If you can bear to listen to Dick Van Dyke's "accent," which sounds far more like a speech impediment -- Elmer Fudd comes to mind -- than an accent. But I digress.) Of course Dame Julie had already filmed MP before she filmed SoM (lots of people like acronyms, especially for Events and Things, so I thought I might try here). Got the Academy Award for MP, actually, mid-SoM! Mebbe you knew that. What other movies to watch whilst you're laid up? Kid-friendly, in case 1, 2, 3, or 4 burst in mid-screening? Mmmm. <i>Chitty Chitty Bang Bang</i>? I forget whether we're subjected to Van Dyke's Elmer Fudd version of Cockney. We haven't gotten past <i>Mary Poppins</i> yet. I'll keep thinking. Yegods! O woe is you! All umpteen of you!

Wow! That is sooooooooo much sadder than my missing Dame Julie on the big screen! I vow now, whenever I begin to feel sorry for myself, to think of four hospital admissions and a baptism. Heavens to murgatroids.

Mary Poppins is of course the first thing I think of to follow up Sound of Music. (If you can bear to listen to Dick Van Dyke’s “accent,” which sounds far more like a speech impediment — Elmer Fudd comes to mind — than an accent. But I digress.) Of course Dame Julie had already filmed MP before she filmed SoM (lots of people like acronyms, especially for Events and Things, so I thought I might try here). Got the Academy Award for MP, actually, mid-SoM! Mebbe you knew that.

What other movies to watch whilst you’re laid up? Kid-friendly, in case 1, 2, 3, or 4 burst in mid-screening? Mmmm. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? I forget whether we’re subjected to Van Dyke’s Elmer Fudd version of Cockney. We haven’t gotten past Mary Poppins yet.

I’ll keep thinking.

]]> By: Chumpy http://www.lesbiandad.net/2007/11/27/whats-sadder-than-missing-the-sound-of-music-once/#comment-53927 Chumpy Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:13:02 +0000 http://lesbiandad.net/2007/11/27/whats-sadder-than-missing-the-sound-of-music-once/#comment-53927 4 hospital admissions and a baptism!....is sadder I think. In true life imitates art fashion 3 & 4 also started to sniffle and cough when your two started. Sadly though they just kept on going and 4 got admitted to the paediatric ward with bronchiolitis. Not content to be breast-feeding-twin-roomy, 3 acquired bona fide patient status by developing both bronchiolitis and pneumonia. Despite tremendous brinkmanship on 4s part involving oxygen and feeding tubes both babes were discharged 12 hours in advance of their baptism. Though 3 needed readmission 12 hours after. Needless to say, having missed out on feeding tube before, both feeding tube and oxygen were needed. This stay overlapped with a planned orthopaedic admission hence the quartet of hospital admissions. On account of 2 we are past masters at missing things. We have had to cancel so many things in the past: birthdays, holidays, it is a standing joke with our close friends that in the run up to any prearanged important event someone will become ill. To paraphrase wifey's comments about the surgery- at least I got a sleep! And now with everyone discharged home to recuperate I just have to pick my entertainment. I'm on crutches....so I can't do normal duties.....my discharge information says rest and elevate leg.....haven't watched any films for ages.....never usually have time for TV. What should I watch after The Sound of Music?? 4 hospital admissions and a baptism!….is sadder I think.

In true life imitates art fashion 3 & 4 also started to sniffle and cough when your two started. Sadly though they just kept on going and 4 got admitted to the paediatric ward with bronchiolitis. Not content to be breast-feeding-twin-roomy, 3 acquired bona fide patient status by developing both bronchiolitis and pneumonia.

Despite tremendous brinkmanship on 4s part involving oxygen and feeding tubes both babes were discharged 12 hours in advance of their baptism. Though 3 needed readmission 12 hours after. Needless to say, having missed out on feeding tube before, both feeding tube and oxygen were needed. This stay overlapped with a planned orthopaedic admission hence the quartet of hospital admissions.

On account of 2 we are past masters at missing things. We have had to cancel so many things in the past: birthdays, holidays, it is a standing joke with our close friends that in the run up to any prearanged important event someone will become ill.

To paraphrase wifey’s comments about the surgery- at least I got a sleep! And now with everyone discharged home to recuperate I just have to pick my entertainment. I’m on crutches….so I can’t do normal duties…..my discharge information says rest and elevate leg…..haven’t watched any films for ages…..never usually have time for TV. What should I watch after The Sound of Music??

]]> By: LesbianDad http://www.lesbiandad.net/2007/11/27/whats-sadder-than-missing-the-sound-of-music-once/#comment-53591 LesbianDad Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:21:35 +0000 http://lesbiandad.net/2007/11/27/whats-sadder-than-missing-the-sound-of-music-once/#comment-53591 <i>Smart thinking, Robin!</i> As the TV Batman used to say to his "ward." That is one cheery thought. And how 'bout they make it a double bill with Mary Poppins? My only dilemma would be how to keep the kiddle(s) from climbing the curtains over the course of the night. But I'm there, man. Smart thinking, Robin! As the TV Batman used to say to his “ward.” That is one cheery thought. And how ’bout they make it a double bill with Mary Poppins? My only dilemma would be how to keep the kiddle(s) from climbing the curtains over the course of the night. But I’m there, man.

]]> By: perkl8 http://www.lesbiandad.net/2007/11/27/whats-sadder-than-missing-the-sound-of-music-once/#comment-53583 perkl8 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:36:33 +0000 http://lesbiandad.net/2007/11/27/whats-sadder-than-missing-the-sound-of-music-once/#comment-53583 I know it wouldn't be the same (I've been to the one at the Castro and I really do understand) .... but I wonder if we east bay dwellers could convince the Parkway or El Cerrito to show this for a baby brigade night? I know it wouldn’t be the same (I’ve been to the one at the Castro and I really do understand) …. but I wonder if we east bay dwellers could convince the Parkway or El Cerrito to show this for a baby brigade night?

]]> By: Liza http://www.lesbiandad.net/2007/11/27/whats-sadder-than-missing-the-sound-of-music-once/#comment-53553 Liza Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:37:06 +0000 http://lesbiandad.net/2007/11/27/whats-sadder-than-missing-the-sound-of-music-once/#comment-53553 Too bad! I thought of you this weekend when I heard an interview with Christopher Plummer. Too bad!

I thought of you this weekend when I heard an interview with Christopher Plummer.

]]> By: LesbianDad http://www.lesbiandad.net/2007/11/27/whats-sadder-than-missing-the-sound-of-music-once/#comment-53550 LesbianDad Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:05:27 +0000 http://lesbiandad.net/2007/11/27/whats-sadder-than-missing-the-sound-of-music-once/#comment-53550 Slowly, but surely (woe is me). Good thing we mooched the DVD from the Know-It-All-Brother-In-Law. Slowly, but surely (woe is me). Good thing we mooched the DVD from the Know-It-All-Brother-In-Law.

]]> By: Vikki http://www.lesbiandad.net/2007/11/27/whats-sadder-than-missing-the-sound-of-music-once/#comment-53549 Vikki Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:27:11 +0000 http://lesbiandad.net/2007/11/27/whats-sadder-than-missing-the-sound-of-music-once/#comment-53549 I hope that everyone is on the mend, including you and your broken heart. I hope that everyone is on the mend, including you and your broken heart.

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