My name is Danielle, and I watch a soap opera. General Hospital to be exact. I started watching it with my mom after school sometime around 6th grade or so. I would sit at the kitchen table having my after school snack, dreaming that someday I would have a great love like Luke and Laura, Robin and Stone, Lucky and Elizabeth, or Brenda and Sonny, or Brenda and Jax haha. When I was 15 and I got my first job, I worked 4-9 after school a couple of nights a week, I would watch GH from 3 until 3:45pm and then hop in the car and my mom or dad would drive me to work. When I moved into the dorm at college, I scheduled early morning classes so that I could watch my soap at 3. When my oldest daughter Libby was born, I remember switching on the TV in the delivery room to get my daily dose of the residents of Port Charles. The show had become a part of my life, something I could depend on. If family issues were bothring me, I could count on the Quartermaine's to backstab eachother and make my family look great!
I always joked that my kids knew the General Hospital theme song from hearing it in the womb. When they were babies, I would nurse them during the show, and put them right down for their naps. Now that we have the DVR, I can watch my show whatever time of day or night is convenient for me. And yesterday I turned it on about 4, right before dinner. The girls were playing on their DSi's and Charlie was sitting on the floor driving his trucks around in front of the TV when he stopped dead in his tracks to stare at the opening credits of General Hospital. He turned and smiled at me and started dancing! I knew that boy was something special!!
After dinner last night I took my girls to see Disney on Ice. We've been going for the past 3 years now. I got a postcard in the mail saying that I was a "VIP" and I could get tickets for only $12 a piece, but only if I went opening night (Wednesday night) at 7pm. Against my better judgement (it was a school night!) I couldn't resist a bargain, and bought tickets for myself and the 2 girls and arranged for Doug to drop us off and pick us up. We worked it out so that Doug could put Charlie to bed at 8, and our little babysitter Lydia would come over and sit with him so Doug wouldn't have to bring him back out when he came to pick us up.
So the show was great. Everything was beautiful! We loved it. I had given the girls each $10 to spend while we were there. I knew that $10 wouldn't go far, seeing how the bag of cotton candy with the mickey ears crown on top is $10!!! But, I thought it was a reasonable allowance. So right away Nina decides she wants a pair of Little Mermaid binoculars, and they are just $10. Good choice! Then Libby buys a sno cone in a souvineir mug - for $10! That's robbery if you ask me! But it was her choice so I bit my tongue.
So after the show we're in the car on the way home and everyone is getting very sleepy. I asked Doug, "are you driving Lydia home or am I?" and I hear Nina in the back seat, very softly saying, "no sno cone, no lydia ... " and she was softly sobbing and if I wasn't chuckling to myself I would have cried! So Doug kicks in and starts trying to please the princess, "let's stop at the gas station and buy a slushie." but that didnt seem to cheer her up. so I gave it a shot, "Let's call Lydia again soon to have her babysit all you kids." and I got no response.
Two minutes later I glance in the backseat and she's ASLEEP! hahaha.
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