Pirates

Last weekend was glorious.  Jarrett got to spend two whole days away from work and instead spent the time with us.  Did I mention how nice it was?  It was the first Saturday in a very LONG time where Jarrett didn’t race off  sometime after lunch and head into work.  He was around almost the entire weekend.  We ate meals together, we watched movies together as a family, we went out to eat as a family, and we went swimming together.  It was so special in fact, that all the kids made a comment about it.  Isabelle questioned, “Daddy no work?”  Gabriel  repeated, “Dad, it is so nice you aren’t going into work” And Michael said, “Dad- now let’s play Star Wars video games since you don’t have to leave.”  While I appreciated having the extra help around the house, I also let Dad enjoy the quality time with the kids. 

Last weekend we watched the 1950's Disney movie called Treasure Island.  I saw the movie at the library and remember watching it with my mom and dad as a child.   I thought it would be fun to rent it and watch it with my family.  When I showed Dad and the boys the movie they wanted to watch it right away.  At first the boys couldn’t understand what the pirates were saying.  They said, “They talk like the olden times” Going to our standard of how Jarrett and I watch movies, we turned on the closed captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing.  Thank goodness for subtitles.  I actually thought of it as a win-win, while we didn't have to constantly translate what was said, instead, the boys could read it!  That counts as an educational activity then right?

Anyway, the boys could obviously tell the movie hadn’t been made in recent times and that the setting was “a long time ago” as Michael likes to say.  After the movie ended I could tell the boys were still very interested in the timing, the life of pirating and curious if pirates actually are real.  Jarrett and I had just watched Captain Phillips a few weeks ago and so when Gabriel asked me if pirates are real, I responded, “Yes, but they don’t dress the way the pirates in this movie dressed.”  My answer must have thrown off his hypothesis of when pirates were living, because I could see him sitting at the kitchen table still thinking about the movie we had just watched.  Meanwhile, Michael, who has a question for everything, continued to interrogate Jarrett about pirates, how many there are, where they live, what they did with their treasure; you name it.  He had a question. 

I went to see what Isabelle was doing and when I returned to the room, the boys and Jarrett were still talking about pirates.  That’s when Gabriel’ jumped back into the conversation and said, “So Dad, I think I’ve got this figured out.  First came dinosaurs, then came pirates and after that came people, right?”  

We may need another history lesson.  Just saying…

Until next time,

Angie