The Twilight of My Peace

Twilight, the movie, opened last Friday. Lily went with a group of friends to celebrate one of their birthdays. My minister, who is the mother of the birthday girl, took them all. She said she wanted to know what they were watching, and I was glad to delegate that task to her.

I tried listening to Twilight, the book, on my iPod. I'm clearly not the audience. I couldn't finish it. I think it's the equivalent of soft porn for teenagers, and I'm not sure how I feel about that. Lily has read every book in the series.

Lily spent the weekend cleaning up her room. She emptied photo frames and put pictures of the "hot" guys from Twilight in them. She even framed her ticket stub.

The walls used to have posters of large cats from the zoo, zebras and horses. One horse poster survived the Twilight purge. The rest of the frames are filled with Twilight-obelia and "hot" guys.

She showed it all to Paul and me. We made sincere grunting noises. They seemed to satisfy her. Later, Paul said, "At least they're hot guys she'll never meet."

Buddy (her horse) stood at the fence when we drove up from school today. Lily asked me to cancel her riding lesson because she had too much homework, and hasn't been riding much lately anyway. That was convenient for her teacher so we canceled.

Buddy was still at the fence when I walked down to the mailbox. I petted his friendly self and wondered if he could compete with a hot vampire. I think both of us shared this sad moment. He cannot.

I hope she'll come back to us soon. Maybe there's room for both hot guys and forgiving horses. That one horse poster remains.

Horses are forever. Vampires are just immortal.

Comments

[I Gallop On]

Poor poor Buddy. Maybe if you put like a gallon of hair gel in his mane????

I took my 12-year-old daughter to see Twilight on Friday night too. I was amused by the behavior of all of the tween girls. It was a pop culture moment if ever I've seen one when some of them way up in the back started shouting "You're gorgeous!" to Edward the main vampire heart throb up there on the screen. It was all giggling and high spirits and fun. I finished the book last night, and I can say that I found it refreshing that the teenage characters seem to exercise restraint, something which seems to be lacking in some films made for their age group. I was reading those awful Barbara Cartland romance novels when I was 13. Her book "The Shiek" got passed around the seventh grade until it was hanging in tatters. And while I read mainly science fiction these days, I know I would have loved the Twilight series back then. My son actually bought his sister a poster of Edward and the other hot vampire boys. I'm waiting for it to appear on the wall of her room this weekend, and I'll have to warn her poor horse to gird herself for what may be coming. ;-)

Kimberly

[Paige]

honestly i hate twilight and i'm 15, it has no plot and what kind of self respecting book has the line "i'm not afraid of you" after another character tells a joke, i mean really??? trust me get her to read some good books like bartimeaus or black beauty and she should be over it
good luck!!
Paige