the gilmore calendar
last night justin and i were sitting in bed, watching season six of the gilmore girls on dvd. milo stirred in his crib, and i was reminded of a night nearly nine months ago: justin and i were sitting in exactly the same place (our couch used to be where our bed is now), watching season two of the gilmore girls (ah, the golden year of jess!), and milo's movements were strong enough that justin got to feel him for the first time. (i can't figure out how to link to the post on my mac, but here's the address to it: http://johannesghost.blogspot.com/2006/04/2gether-4ever.html).
justin and i got hooked on the antics of the two lorelais four years ago, when we spent january and february of 2003 in south america. gilmore was on chilean tv three or four times a day; we watched it mid-morning while we got dressed, in the afternoon when we napped while it was hot, in the evening while we got ready to go out to supper, and as we went to sleep. we watched them all out of order, but we pieced together the whole first season and part of the second. later in the trip, when we got to montevideo, we picked our hotel in part because it had a tv, and we needed to make sure that horrible paris wasn't getting the best of rory. it was on that trip that we talked out all of our kid issues (or, at least, the ones we had then, pre-hans) and decided to start trying to get pregnant in may or june. we got home, found our house, got pregnant, and got too busy to keep up with the citizens of stars hollow.
forward to last winter, when we were bogged down by snow and anxiety; justin discovered he could request the gilmore girls dvds from the library. we watched seasons two and three over the course of the winter and spring; it was my safety valve, my periodic escape from my fears. when rory graduated from chilton, i got choked up envisioning milo in a cap and gown. the last weekend before i checked into the hospital, i went back and watched all of season one (in order, this time), finishing the last episode while i got dressed in the crazy heat that monday afternoon.
later, after my mom had gone home and the visitors slowed to a trickle and justin went back to work, milo and i moved on to season four. it was during the horrible, hellish period when he was a month old, when i was going nuts with the nursing/pumping/running the leaky supplementary system merry-go-round. i was miserable, milo was miserable. the only times he stopped crying were when the show's theme song played, and i sang along with carole king and her daughter to milo.
we waited forever for season five but we finally got to catch up last week, and milo showed he remembered the theme song by twisting his head around (with my nipple in his mouth) each time it came on while we nursed.
this morning i watched the last two episodes of season six while milo slept on our bed next to me. i've only managed to catch a couple of the current season's episodes, but i imagine next fall i'll take a weekend to watch the whole season at once - if milo will let me. i may have to put him on a tether. the only acceptable end will be luke and lorelai (and rory and jess) reconciling (although i suppose since the real life rory and jess have broken up, and since jess is now starring on "heroes", that a reconciliation between them on the show is out of the question). however it ends, though, milo and i will have our song. i hope whenever he hears "where you lead" he'll remember how much i love him.
justin and i got hooked on the antics of the two lorelais four years ago, when we spent january and february of 2003 in south america. gilmore was on chilean tv three or four times a day; we watched it mid-morning while we got dressed, in the afternoon when we napped while it was hot, in the evening while we got ready to go out to supper, and as we went to sleep. we watched them all out of order, but we pieced together the whole first season and part of the second. later in the trip, when we got to montevideo, we picked our hotel in part because it had a tv, and we needed to make sure that horrible paris wasn't getting the best of rory. it was on that trip that we talked out all of our kid issues (or, at least, the ones we had then, pre-hans) and decided to start trying to get pregnant in may or june. we got home, found our house, got pregnant, and got too busy to keep up with the citizens of stars hollow.
forward to last winter, when we were bogged down by snow and anxiety; justin discovered he could request the gilmore girls dvds from the library. we watched seasons two and three over the course of the winter and spring; it was my safety valve, my periodic escape from my fears. when rory graduated from chilton, i got choked up envisioning milo in a cap and gown. the last weekend before i checked into the hospital, i went back and watched all of season one (in order, this time), finishing the last episode while i got dressed in the crazy heat that monday afternoon.
later, after my mom had gone home and the visitors slowed to a trickle and justin went back to work, milo and i moved on to season four. it was during the horrible, hellish period when he was a month old, when i was going nuts with the nursing/pumping/running the leaky supplementary system merry-go-round. i was miserable, milo was miserable. the only times he stopped crying were when the show's theme song played, and i sang along with carole king and her daughter to milo.
we waited forever for season five but we finally got to catch up last week, and milo showed he remembered the theme song by twisting his head around (with my nipple in his mouth) each time it came on while we nursed.
this morning i watched the last two episodes of season six while milo slept on our bed next to me. i've only managed to catch a couple of the current season's episodes, but i imagine next fall i'll take a weekend to watch the whole season at once - if milo will let me. i may have to put him on a tether. the only acceptable end will be luke and lorelai (and rory and jess) reconciling (although i suppose since the real life rory and jess have broken up, and since jess is now starring on "heroes", that a reconciliation between them on the show is out of the question). however it ends, though, milo and i will have our song. i hope whenever he hears "where you lead" he'll remember how much i love him.
posted by laura at 10:17 PM
3 Comments:
Are you using Safari on your Mac, Laura? Some of the Blogger functions don't work properly for some reason.
If you download Firefox and use that instead you'll find all the functionality you need.
Love all the photos of Milo. Just such an adorable kiddo.
Firefox works great with Blogger on my Mac.
I watched all the reruns of the Gilmores during my 3 month maternity leave two years ago. What else is a gal to do when you are on mat leave and have no baby to show for it? The Gilmores are so intrinsically linked to C. that I can almost mark milestones in grieving with specific episodes. Like the episode where they flashback to Rory's birth - that was the first time that I could watch/think of a happy birth outcome and not want to vomit. It was May, as I recall.
I asked for all seasons on DVD for b-day and christmas gifts, so now own all 6 seasons. Loving seasons 1-3.
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