So, it's March and I'm thinking if I don't do some blogging for 2016, like now, it might not happen. And that isn't an option, so here we are.
Big theme for 2016 - Star Wars "The Force Awakens" - we'd been watching the preview on YouTube since they came out months and months ago. But given the PG13 rating we weren't sure about taking O & R. Owen in particular doesn't like scary/dark things. Kyle and I went on our own to see it (so selfless) and there were definitely a couple of scenes that would fit that dark/scary category so we initially told them they could watch it at home w/ us when it came out on video - so we could control volume and fast forward if needed - they actually took the news really well even though they both had LOTS of friends that were going to see it. Then we completely changed our minds and talked ourselves into taking them because it was so much fun and we decided we were overthinking it. Basically we caved to our own peer pressure. ;)
So....on Christmas Day evening we told the kids we were going to go run some errands, we all loaded up in the car, made up an excuse for dropping Maggie up at our babysitter Marisela's apartment, and headed to the mall "to return some things" but when we walked in we b-lined it for the fandango ticket thingie...
At first he was clueless, then he read the ticket.
They were so excited. And so were we. And nobody cried during or had nightmares afterwards - total success. It helped a lot that we had seen it so could warn them about upcoming scenes or whether something would turn out okay (Owen in particular wants to know that sort of stuff - and then he's fine). So, yay for Star Wars and the beginning to a wonderful 2016.
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