so me, my sister and my dad decided watching it again.
and then there were the scenes when Bonnie is playing….
and my dad said
OK guys story time with Chibi.
So like everyone else in the world, I cried hardcore with this movie. When it came out I was already done with college, but I remembered, o.k.? I have a bunch of stuffed animals at home, and I had to pick what I wanted to take to college with me, and I just… the first year I came back home for the holidays I discovered that my dad still had the ones I didn’t pick, he still does have them now, waiting for me to be able to live somewhere where I can hold all of them (there’s a bunch, like, my crazy house dream is to have a room called “The Animal Safari” with all my babies I know I’m weird).
But when this movie came out on blu ray, my partner and I went to her parent’s house to watch it because they hadn’t seen it. I think, at this point, we were finally on good terms with each other. But anyhow, her parents aren’t terrible emotional. Not a bad thing, but like… my parents are dorks and huggers and criers, her parents aren’t. So we’re watching Toy Story 3, and I had already seen it like… 3 times by then? And I still get misty eyed at the end, because I still remember, you know? But when the movie was over I looked over and her mom was crying, and I kinda smiled, because you know she isn’t terribly emotional like I said.
But I knew in that moment that she remembered what it was like to see her baby go, too. And you know, she was looking at us, because my partner is her oldest and her only girl, who’s with a girl, and I know in the beginning that was a huge deal but we were getting over it. But I feel like she was looking at us and kind of realizing that her baby had made her decision and was sticking with it.
Like a year or so later (I think) we started looking at houses and her mother proved wholeheartedly that she was supportive by giving us the downpayment we needed (we had a bunch of money saved but not enough, so she was like, “How much do you need?”)
