What started out as an ordinary day has ended in my household with a life-changing event. Colby loves television and movies, it's his vice so to speak. After watching something he will occasionally ask me "Mom did that really happen?" I thought I had given him a very thorough answer but apparently I had failed miserably at explaining to him that television is not real!
Tonight I had the Oscars on, not because I generally like to watch them (because half the movies I have never even heard of and the other half I don't really care about) but because Idina Menzel is performing "Let it Go" from Frozen. Colby and I have seen it four times. I'm a tad obsessed. Anyways, about half the way into the show, out walked Sally Field. Colby said "Mom look it's Forrest Gump's mom!!!" I said actually baby her name is Sally Field. "No mom, that's his mom, her last name is Gump!" This went back and forth for entirely too long. He kept asking was Forrest there as well. Finally I gave him the best explanation I could that this indeed was Sally Field. This realization had him full of questions and speechless at the same time. Was Sam and Cat not really real? Kevin didn't really get left by his parents twice at Christmas in Home Alone? I have often dreaded the day of telling Colby that Santa Claus is not real, but this I think was harder than that will be when the time comes.
So a little 7 year old boy has went to bed contemplating the world as he knew it and embracing the fact that Forrest Gump indeed is actually Tom Hanks and sadly enough his mom is not Sally Field.
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