If you've never seen it, this is the Salt Lake City building. It houses different city offices and I'm pretty sure the mayor's office (I could just be saying that?!?!!) The building is on one of the main roads downtown. Its a road Indy and I take often including every time we go to school. Since I can remember, Indy has called this "her castle." (Eric and mine castle is the Grand America for those of you that are interested!) She's always wanted to go inside. So yesterday, I decided we would go and take a look inside. I've been there plenty of times, and while its nothing but offices, its still pretty cool inside. Granite everywhere, pillars, brass stairwells. No princesses but still pretty regal in there.
So here's our conversation today:
Indy: did you and daddy dance there when you were married?
Me: no, not there.
Indy: will there be a princess there today?
Me: nope. you know what's actually in there, offices with people working.
Indy: (nothing but a sad look.)
Me: but its still beautiful
Indy: but its not a REAL castle?
Me: it looks like a castle, but no, we don't have a "real" castle in Utah.
Indy: (with tears flowing) but I just want it to be a real castle.
So tell me, should I have just kept my big mouth shut and let her figure it out on her own? I feel like I crushed her dream and took away the magic. Now I can never get it back for her...
We'll see how it goes when we get there. She says she still wants to go. I told her she could wear her princess dress so that she'd be the princess and she just tearfully answered, "no thanks..."
2 comments:
Sad face at home is better than sad face in public! Better to prepare! Or straight up lie . . . "the princesses are sleeping in the very boring looking offices" :)
Oh! This breaks my heart - I always want to be able to keep the magic going...but eventually they have to learn the truth. Unfortunately, no hindsight advice....maybe give it some time and then take her?
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