Family Movie Nights

Adored Wife can't go to movies.  She hasn't been to a movie theater in three years; she can't sit down for the length of time it would take to watch one.  (A half hour is about her limit before she has to either get up and move around or go lie down.)

In a recliner she can last a lot longer.  Also on longer car trips she sits in the passenger seat and leans back.  And we know you're not supposed to do this because in the event of a crash the seat belt's not effective when you're reclining but sometimes you have to make accommodations.

So we do family movie nights, usually on Fridays, and it's always a grand thing when a movie we've been wanting to watch comes to the Redbox video rental.  We see lots of really cool movies two months after everybody else sees them in the theater.

And you know, it's much cheaper doing it our way and somehow not seeing the film when it first comes out hasn't significantly diminished our quality of life.

Adored Wife can drive, grocery shop, and cook.  She can stand longer than she can sit and as long as it doesn't involve excessive amounts of bending over or any heavy lifting she's all over it.  So on family movie nights she makes pizza, and we have chips and root beer and carrots.  (We have carrots so we can pretend we're eating healthy.)  And the whole family will watch a movie downstairs with our pizza and chips.  We even have a few friends over from time to time.

And AW gets dibs on the recliner and can last through the whole movie.  We like Pixar movies and James Bond and the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies and recently we did Mel Brooks' "To Be Or Not To Be."  And it's a fun thing and the family always looks forward to it.

Hope all's well out there, friends, and God bless.