I took Thursday evening off this past week…no working…no blogging…nope…I was going to relax…my son asked me if I wanted to watch Enchanted…the Disney animated movie that I had rented from Blockbuster more than a week ago…the movie that I had originally hoped to see at the theaters…the movie that I missed because I was too busy…but now it was time to sit back and watch a fairytale…I was in the mood to lose myself in a fairytale.

I sat down in my lounge chair…put my feet up on the hassock…got a cup of my Chamomile tea…and a piece of my sister-in-law’s fabulous chocolate chip cake (don’t know how she keeps those chips from falling to the bottom of the cake…but it is truly delicious and you get a chip in every bite…and there is also a thick chocolate icing too…yummy)…and I lost myself in an Enchanted evening.

As the animation unfolded and the birds began to sing, my son said to me…”I do love Disney fairytales”…”Ah,yes,” I said, “I do too, I do too”…of course he proceeded to fall asleep after the first 30 minutes…while I was glued to every scene…from the moment Giselle began to sing…and the birds began to chirp…and then she met her Prince…yes…just like the best fairytales.

But then…but then…this animation came to life…yes…Giselle and the other characters came to life…wow…and they came to life in Manhattan…wow…my favorite city…and then Giselle met another fabulous guy…wow,wow,wow…who was played by Patrick Dempsey (Mr. McDreamy)…this movie just got better and better…of course there were ups and downs that Giselle had to face along her fairytale journey…like the evil queen Narissa…but she had a cute chipmunk to help her…and Robert (Mr. McDreamy) to guide her…and Robert’s cute daughter gave her a credit card to go shopping for a dress to go to the ball (an unlimited credit card I might add)…what a fairytale this was…oh…what a fantastic fairytale.

So…as I sat and watched and lost myself in this Enchanted evening…I realized that as I approach my 50+ years…it is still great to lose yourself in fairytales…even if they don’t come true in real life…at least it’s a great way to have an Enchanted evening.

Judi

P.S. – When I awoke this morning…Saturday morning…I heard the birds singing outside my window…and for a moment…before I opened my eyes…I thought of Giselle…when she started to sing…the birds and bees came into her house and cleaned it all up…they did her laundry…they tidied things all up.

I started to think of what song I could sing…yes…before I opened my eyes I tried to remember the song that Giselle sang…but I forgot…my 50 year old brain just couldn’t recall the song…then I opened my eyes…no fairytale ending for me today…nope…guess I’ll have to do my own laundry and clean my own house myself this weekend.