Will we or won't we? A story in which Cat saves the day.

The kids didn't have school on Monday because it was a teacher work day.  We saw that "The Good Dinosaur" was showing at a little dollar theater about 15 minutes away, where we could get in free with passes we got for Christmas, so we decided it would be a fun way to spend the afternoon.  Unfortunately, because of a variety of unfortunate events, mostly having to do with kids not getting things done when they were supposed to, we didn't make it to the 3:00 show as originally planned.  We went back and forth about going to the 5:00 show, because I refused to make dinner when we got home.  The kids would have to be okay with having popcorn for dinner (Mom of the year, right?) with some healthy snacks afterward.

With lots of excitement on Jack and Eliza's part and a good amount of feet-dragging on Cat's part, we went to the movie.  Unfortunately, we found out at the ticket office that instead of getting in free, we had to pay $.25 for each ticket and would receive a voucher for $.25 toward concessions per ticket we bought.  And, even more unfortunately, I'd accidentally left my wallet at home and didn't have any money in the car.  So we sadly walked back to the car (except Cat, who was already asking about which Redbox movie we would rent).

As I was getting Luke buckled in his car seat, Cat held up a roll of nickels she found in the car, which I'd been meaning to take to the bank.  She also found some spare change I'd forgotten about.  Woohoo!  We had enough to get into the movie and buy our dinner-popcorn, plus a few cups of water.  Cat saved the day, even though she didn't want to see the movie in the first place.

The kids liked the movie, except for Luke who was pretty bored, ironically.  My favorite thing about the movie was that it was absolutely beautiful.  It did have a nice story, too, though.