Today was such a great day. Everyone in the family has gotten over the worst of their cold symptoms, so we’re back on track.
My husband and I had our first kid-free movie date since Sean (our 10 months old son) was born. We went to see The Great Debaters. It was excellent. The movie is loosely based on a true story about a Black college debate team that ultimately (spoiler alert!) wins a debate against Harvard. All of the actors did an amazing job and although a few of the scenes are racially disturbing, the movie is inspiring and uplifting. Besides the movie being great, I was just happy to be able to eat my nachos (my favorite movie food!) and drink my soda in peace and quiet (besides that one crazy person in the theater who kept threatening out loud to “go down to Texas” – you have to see the movie to understand his anger).
Later this evening, a married couple friend of ours came over. We have them over for dinner a lot. This time they brought the meal, cooked it and cleaned up afterwards. While we women talked about our hopes for 2008, the men and my oldest son played the Wii game. Sean was just having fun walking around (he’s all over the place with his little robot walk – so cute!) It was such a relaxing, fun evening.
Now, everyone is in bed while I get a little blogging and work done. I’m going to bed by 11:30pm tonight, which is good for me.
As Ice Cube said in one of his songs, “Today was a good day”. (I never know what quote will go through my mind – from classic literary ones to rap lyrics. The human mind’s capacity for variety is amazing!)