#also child me and grown-up me agree that we're really not into the romance part of the film

[bluecatwriter]

Just watched The Sound of Music with my spouse— it had been a long time since I'd seen it! I can definitely see why it was one of my favorite movies as a kid: I wanted to be the Von Trapp kids more than anything (even though I resented how quickly they learned solfage). What if I was a child singing with my siblings at a lavish dinner party, and everyone oohed and ahhed and said how talented we were? What if we were performing for a huge crowd and everybody loved us and we put on puppet shows and our governess had pillow fights with us while we sang catchy tunes? The dream.

(It's worth noting that my three siblings and I all have trained voices, and we often sang together for people when we were kids— and yes, people called us "The Von Trapp Children" all the time. But we never sang an elaborate choreographed song at a lavish dinner party, alas.)