Star Wars Saturday - The Force Awakens

Our family has a routine. Every Saturday we sit down together in our living room to eat dinner while watching a movie. For awhile, we referred to these Saturdays as Star Wars Saturdays. Before the latest Star Wars movie hit theaters, I had never actually seen a Star Wars movie. So, we would watch each movie about half way through every Saturday. Since we divided each movie in half, this took us about 12 weeks. Twelve weeks of Star Wars was basically a dream come true for my husband. Of course our kids were excited too. They'd sit down at their little table eating their dinner, quietly chewing away on the meal as we began each movie. Of course, the very beginning always caused a bit of craziness. As one of our boys would read away at "in a galaxy far, far away..." pronouncing some words like "imperial"wrong, our other kids were out of their seats dancing some of the craziest dances we've ever seen. To their credit though, once the opening sequence was done, our kids would brush off the crazy and continue eating, Star Wars Saturday was actually pretty nice, the kids were happy, my husband was happy, everything was good. Then came The Force Awakens, which according to my husband had to be watched in its entirety. Now, I'm pretty sure that the force actually awakened something inside our kids. Their ability to stay seated with their mouths closed was extremely challenging. Our oldest seemed to enjoy standing straight up in the middle of the room while blocking everyone's view. Our second oldest, for some reason found it necessary to sit on the couch facing us so he could discuss Pokemon. Then there's our 5 year old who must have swallowed a jumping bean. Our little one though actually sat quite nicely on the couch. His only outburst was when either a Storm Trooper or Kylo Ren appeared on the screed. On a side note, I'm not entirely sure that its a good thing that our 3 year old only likes the bad guys. However, as aggravating as our kids were yesterday, I am quickly reminded that without chaos in our life...our life would be calm, quiet, collected....and who wants that?