The stress that I feel in trying to pick the perfect gift is huge. You want to have it be something useful and I beat myself up. So I’m trying to focus on the memory, take the focus off the gifts and put it into building memories.
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The Time Travelers Wife...or Date Night!
It’s the biggest topic on my mind today other than Mom Time TV and I just can’t wait until tonight! My favorite book of all time comes out tonight in the theaters. It’s “The Time Travelers Wife.” And I hardly know where to start to talk about it!
The Mom Time TV show that’s airing this very day is “Date Night.” It’s a powerful show that reminds us why we got married in the first place. And most importantly how to protect and enhance that beautiful relationship. So often when we become moms we let our kids take over our lives and we forget to take care of the marriage and relationship that started it all. I guess when you’re dead tired, it’s easy to go off track!
So tonight will be “date night.” And by my choice, we get to see “The Time Travelers Wife.” Other than being a spectacular story, the whole premise advocates a marriage relationship that just grows stronger and stronger throughout the years.
This is the book that when I finished the last page, I just turned back to page one and started all over again. I couldn’t put it down. And the second time was better than the first. It’s a touch complicated with the time travel that goes backward & forward in time. It’s not a book where you can read two or three pages at a time, but since you can’t put it down that’s not really a problem.
I guess because of the time travel nature of this book, it would be classified as sci-fi. But in my book, it’s part love story, part adventure. Sci-fi means something entirely different to me. So if you’re not big on sci-fi, don’t skip this movie because of that.
Back in the day, the rights to this movie were purchased by Brad Pitt & Jennifer Aniston. At the time, I thought they’d be the stars. One of our Mom Time TV editors read the book and tracked down the author to buy the rights, but Brad & Jen already had them. Interesting, huh?
I’ll get back to you after my date night movie!
Ok I do totally recommend you see “The Time Travelers Wife”! How do they take all those pages from a long book and reduce it to a 2 hour movie? And still keep so many of the story points! I loved it. I love that it’s a movie and more people will be able to see this story. At first I wasn’t sure if they got the point across, the important point, I thought, of how the love between them continues to grow. But now as I think about it, they did do it, they just didn’t beat you over the head with it. You have to look at the stages of love and of their relationship and how yes they gave things up for each other, compromised for each other, and when life got tough (as it does) they did their best for each other. And that’s love growing!
My husband grunted and groaned throughout the movie. The time travel was driving him nuts! But then as he started to put the pieces in place and started to follow it all and it made sense...the power of the story totally turned him around.
See the movie and let me know what you think!
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