Week 49 - Dec. 2nd - 8th

Date Night 

(with Morgan)

So being a history buff, I really wanted to see the movie Lincoln.  Surpisingly though, I could not get anyone to go watch it with me.....save one.....MORGAN!  I think it was more about the candy and popcorn than it was about the movie, although she was starting a social studies unit about the Civil War and thought it might help with school.  (Again, more about the candy.)

We picked the Friday night night show, after work, and unfortunately it was too early to eat dinner with the rest of the family, so we HAD to go to Five Guys for some burgers before the show.  You know, so we could concentrate. 

 

The movie was really good.  I had previously read Lincoln the Unknown by Dale Carnegie, which was a very depressing book about how misserable Lincoln's life was.  We stopped at his tomb a couple of years ago on the was home from St. Louis to pay homage, but I had always thought of Mr. Lincoln in the depressing light.  The movie really changed my outlook on his life, maybe because it was in color.  I saw a man who was opportunistic, a risk taker who put the greater good of the country ahead of his personal security.  They portrayed him as a person who was clearly more enlightened than the vast majority of the people in the country at the time and perhaps even today.

 

It was great to get to spend time with just my youngest daughter.  It's great to spend alone time with any of my kids.  When I asked Mo what she learned from the movie, she said, "Abraham Lincoln slapped people a lot."....you'll have to see the movie.