Sisters Five

We don't have any cool "built-ins" in our house, the kind that someone would tout on a home description "tons of custom built-ins!" The appeal of a built-in bookshelf or corner breakfast nook is alluring because it looks natural, seamlessly part of the house, never to be removed or rearranged: unique and always there. That's what we like to remind our girls about having so many sisters, they're like built-in friends! Sometimes we'll get the exasperated sigh and sometimes they'll agree with us.

When I heard that the new Tinker Bell movie, Secret of the Wings, was about sisters, I was excited to preview it with my girls. We started the evening by getting everyone in and out of the bath, followed by hair trims all around, and ear cleaning for everyone who would hold still. Then I went to bed because I was already tired. No, not really. Then I had them line up at my bedroom door with their jammies on, blankies, pillows and soft critters in hand and called them in one by one to ask, What do you love about having so many sisters?

Clover: because they're nice and tell me I'm beautiful.
Azure: they're nice to me and play with me.

Olive: that they comfort me and play with me and watch over me.

Pearl: I have someone to play with, to sleep with in my room, and I like to sew stuffed animals with them.
Divine: I love that I always have someone to play with, even if they're super annoying. It's cool because I'm the one with lots of siblings and my friends are super jealous and when they're close in age, it doubles the clothes I can wear.

I think they pretty much hit all the high points of having a sister.

I knew they would love the movie, anything with pretty, sparkly, little fairies, but I wasn't prepared for how much I would enjoy it! I found myself chuckling and looking over at Ryan to catch his eye throughout the whole thing from the clever conversation. There wasn't the typical Good vs Evil plot with too-scary-for-Clover characters, just a plot filled with a dilemma that is solved through cooperation and work. It was genuinely a delightful movie that I found myself sad as it came to an end, I was enjoying it so much! It's one of the few movies I'd like to watch again with them.

Pearl turned to me after it was over and asked if we could get another Tinker Bell movie. I told her the next one after this wouldn't be out until 2014, and we both wished it was next week instead.

And did you wonder what poor little Drummer did while we watched Secret of the Wings? He was very busy pulling everything out of his drawer of stripes.

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