Lily and Clara on the swing.
28 March 2008

The baby went to bed at 7pm last night.  At first, this made us really happy as both children were asleep in bed by 9pm (a rare thing in our household).  But when Damian woke up, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, at 2am, then we were not so happy.

To pass the time through the long, dark night with a wide-awake baby, I wanted to watch a romantic comedy (my favorite genre) but I have seen all the romances in our DVD collection many many times… except for my husband’s favorite romance, The Cutting Edge.

A couple of thoughts about The Cutting Edge:

• It’s actually quite good.

• Exercise montages, ala Flashdance and Rocky, make me laugh. I wish exercising was that fun and/or sexy, and had upbeat and/or heroic background music.  But, alas, it is often simply tedious.

• I love the fact that my husband has a favorite romance movie — one that he has seen so many times (he estimates around fifty) that his family tease him about it.  It shows that he really is a romantic at heart.