Time

Seeing movies in the theater is one of our favorite family activities. Nate went to his first movie at 1 week old. Last summer, when Nate was 18 months old, we went to the Harkins summer kids movies every Friday morning and he would start squealing and clapping as soon as we pulled into the parking lot. This summer, Nate only got to go to the first 2 or 3 summer kids movies because cancer took over our summer. He's been asking to go to the "vovies" since that first hospital admission and we haven't been able to make it because his immune system hasn't been good enough, at the right time.

So, I promised Nate and Wes we could go see a movie tonight in the theater. Unfortunately, I promised this before looking at the movie schedule to see that there are only 2 kids movies playing right now and the last showing at all the theaters nearby was 7pm. The problem was that Daddy didn't get home from work until close to 6:30pm. We were really cutting it close on time. Chris didnt want to rush it and thought it would be easier to just rent a movie and make a special night at home, but I had promised the boys a trip to the theater and they were begging. So, we got our stuff together quickly, I whipped up a quick dinner and we were off to meet Grandma and Linde for the movie. It wasn't the easiest thing, but we got to the theater just in time for Spy Kids.

Nate loved the movie. He kept gasping and saying, "Wow", at all the special spy effects and laughed his silly, loud laugh at all the goofy humor. He also
enjoyed the preview and has chosen Happy Feet 2 as his next movie going experience. As we were leaving he told Chris, "Spy Kids was rearry good!". I kept thinking how glad I was that we went because both boys enjoyed it so much...and so did I.

The movie was about a villain who was speeding up time. As it turned out, he was actually trying to turn back time to spend more time with his father. Jeremy Piven delivered a sort of corny but rather poignant monologue about making the most of the time you have with people because you can never get that time back. Chris told me that Nate touched his shoulder right in the middle of the monologue and his heart almost exploded. That's exactly what we did tonight...we made to most of our time together. We are not going to sit around and wait for these cancer treatments to be over to live our life. We will take advantage of any time that Nate is home, healthy and feeling good. When he is not, we will make the most of those times too.