7pm...8pm...9pm...10pm...Eva is still going strong. For the most part she goes to bed with a hitch. At 8pm. I should have know that 4 hour nap would come back to bite me. Kyle has long since headed off to dreamland leaving me with this super storm Eva and a cluster feeding Emmy. So after a few attempts to read books, I resort to watching "Pincess TB" (also known as Princess TV/Disney's Tangled). Since I am working on my Mommy-of-the-year certificate, I go ahead and pop some popcorn. Get Eva's "banket" and "Dappy" and settle in for the 100 minutes production of the story of Rapunzel. If you haven't seen it or don't know the story...
King and Queen give birth to a baby girl with blond hair that has special powers to keep you young if you sing to it so she was abducted my a witch who locks her in a tower and poses as her mother to keep herself young until the girls 18th birthday when she runs away with a hot guy and discovers who her real parents are and then kills the evil witch and they all live happily ever after.
So that's pretty much the gist.
So I am watching this with my daughter and it occurs to me that this baby was abducted by a woman. Loves the woman as her mother. Runs away with a guy she met minutes before. Falls in love with him the next day. Kills her only known mother. Is reunited with her family who she wouldn't even remember. And lives happily ever after like nothing ever happened... I ask.... How did she not have any psychological repercussions from her abduction and years of isolation.
Ok so I am an adult and I guess "then Rapunzel went through years of extensive counseling... and lived happily ever after" wouldn't go so well for Disney. I still like this brave tale of a young girl overcoming obstacles and stay true to what she believes even through adversity.
Real life is scary but fairy tales are scarier.
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