Because I said so

About this time of year, my father wakes up and says to my mom, "Gotta go skiing, it's too beautiful outside." So my mom calls me and asks if I'd like to go see a movie. She always has a particular movie in mind. Now, I'll have to admit, I only go to the movies one time a year, usually with my mom, but the last two years we have taken my daughter along to see kids' movies - "Ice Age" my daughter and my father's favorite all-time movie and "Monster's Inc." the year before that. A few years ago, Mom and I went to see "The Secrets of the Divine Ya-Ya Sisterhood." We loved it so much. Today Mom suggested "Because I Said So" with Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore. I'm game.

I don't do movie reviews, but this is a movie about a single mom with three daughters. Definitely a "chick flick." You see, I am the oldest of the three of us girls, so this sounded like it was going to be gooood. And it was great. Not to give up too much of the story line, but Diane Keaton plays the mother. She owns her own catering business that the youngest daughter works at. Now, Diane is definitely an over-protective mother, to the extreme. The two older sisters get married off and Diane Keaton is nearing her 60th birthday. Feeling a little down in dumps, she is obsessively worried about her youngest daughter not being married and making the wrong choices in men when she is dating. So Diane puts out an ad on the Internet to meet a man for her daughter. Then she interviews a lot of the men who have applied as the "one to be marriage material." She finds one who she thinks is the perfect one and sets up a "by chance" meeting for him to encounter her daughter. The rest I'll leave out of the story other than to say, I laughed and laughed and laughed enough my face hurts. I'd say this is a must for any mom with a daughter.

I can identify with the plot since my middle sister and I are married, and our youngest sister never has been married. However, although my mother has set my sister up on a date, she would never fix her up on the Internet. (One time my sister did try Internet dating, and ended up on a date with our second cousin who lives over the hill). Yes, the world is a small place. Go and see this movie, I thought it was wonderfully funny.

Piñon Hills Elementary School news

-- Friday from 6-9 p.m. is Movie Night. They will be serving popcorn, drinks and candy. We'll all be wearing our PJs and sitting or laying on our sleeping bags watching a movie. I can't wait, it sounds like so much fun.

-- You know the plastic grocery bags you stuff in your pantry wondering what to do with them other than filling up your trash? Donate them to Piñon Hills Elementary for recycling. It'll help make the school money.

-- Lisa Welch is a Johnson Lane resident and can be reached at 267-9350.