Last night Laura and I decided we should try to take advantage of the relative calm before the storm and go on as many dates as possible before the new baby comes. Luckily we were able to find a baby sitter and we were off! In the interest of frugality, we decided to do things which didn't require money. Luckily for us, we have several gift cards to a variety of places that haven't been used so we decided to go see a movie. We headed over to the Willowbrook AMC only to discover once we got up to the ticket window that we were supposed to be at the Tinseltown theater in the Woodlands. No problem, there's a game store down 249 that we've been wanting to check out for a while so we head up there. No luck, it was closed. So we decide to go up to the Woodlands after all - if we make it to a movie, great, and if not there are some good bookstores we could enjoy for a while. Well, we make it into National Treasure and are enjoying the movie when, about 30 minutes before the movie ends, a family comes in and sits down next to us. Odd, but that's ok I guess. But as the credits start to roll, the dad looks over at me and asks if this wasn't the 9:00 show? Unfortunately for them, this was the 7:20 show and they'd just spoiled the climax of the movie...
I wasn't sure if this should be in the Triumphant Tuesday section as a motivational story or the Joke Day Thursday section as one of life's little funny moments but there it is. The moral of the story - just keep trying.
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Dear John--That is the secret of triumph: "just keep trying!" I remember when I was the Mother Education Teacher in R.S. while Dad was in Law School. I felt a little inadequate when I was called to do this, as I only had 3-yr-old Joy at the time. But the Stake Mother Education Teacher was Sister Oaks, mother of Elder Dalin Oaks, who was President of BYU at the time. She was widowed at a relatively young age and raised her children to be wonderful. So it was a privilege to hear everything she had to say. The main lesson I learned from her is "You are never a failure as a parent unless you quit!" (or in John's words, just keep trying!)
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