Raising Helen
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2:57:00
(Helen) Not a letter?
2:57:02
What?
2:57:04
You are a smug,
2:57:06
bitter, colossal bitch.
2:57:10
(whines)
2:57:11
OK. Guys.
2:57:12
I think this is a good time
to take Origami for a walk.

2:57:17
No, we'll miss the fight.
2:57:19
If you're finished,
I think I'd like to serve dessert.

2:57:23
(Helen) You don't wanna help me,
you just wanna judge me.

2:57:27
Let's all go into the living room and listen
to Jasmine play the piano with one arm.

2:57:32
You just wanna prove that you're a better
mother than me, that Lindsay was wrong.

2:57:36
Why would I need to prove that?
Of course I'm a better mother than you.

2:57:40
I've been doing it forever. But does that
matter? No. She still chose you over me.

2:57:44
Exactly. She chose, Jenny. Not me.
I had no control over it.

2:57:50
You're angry with me because
of a decision that she made for me.

2:57:55
‡ Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is...

2:57:59
I am giving up everything for these kids,
and you have no idea what that's like.

2:58:04
I don't know what it's like?
How do you think I got this way?

2:58:07
Whatever this way is
that's so particularly unfun and funny.

2:58:11
- Who changed your diapers?
- Don't start with that.

2:58:15
Mom died when I was seven.
2:58:17
- Who fed you? Who baby-sat you?
- Lindsay was there, too.

2:58:22
Lindsay was in New York
trying to be a dancer

2:58:24
and I was at home
not having a normal childhood

2:58:26
cos I was too busy being your mommy.
2:58:29
And you're Tra-La-La Helen.
2:58:33
So... free.
2:58:37
Miss Party-Party-All-Night-Long
and I never ever got to feel like that, ever.

2:58:44
Not once.
2:58:51
I don't wanna fight any more.
2:58:58
Happy Mother's Day.

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