The Katie Chronicles, Nostalgia Edition

 We are like a lot of households in that we transitioned to streaming movies and shows quite a while back. Even so, we have held onto quite a few DVDs from back in the day and continue to own players, even if we don’t use them much. I went through some DVDs this weekend and tried to pull out some I thought we could donate, if anywhere still takes them. I asked Katie to go through a pile of animated movies from her childhood, expecting to be given the green light to get rid of all of them, probably accompanied by an “I can’t believe I ever liked these,” too-cool eye roll. But I was wrong. I had no idea you can feel nostalgic for your childhood even when you’re still *in* your childhood. Katie went through the discs and reminisced with me about the ones she used to watch as a child, what her favorites were, which one scared her for reasons we don’t fully understand (Meet the Robinsons), and so on. As it turns out, she’s quite attached to several Barbie movies, Flushed Away, and the Shrek movies. The crown jewel in the 2010s nostalgia trip was The Sharpay Movie. Now there’s a name I haven’t thought of in many years. (Sharpay was a character in the High School Musical movies, if you missed the reference). When all the Despicable Me movies came up for discussion, it was my turn to wax nostalgic and I told her the story of how she used to ask to watch “Pickle Me” in her sweet little girl voice over and over. Ahh memories.