It seems like in life it does not matter what we do or what we say, we can always be reminded of what we don’t want to be reminded of at all. Keith and I went to see a movie last night. I wanted to see a comedy because I needed something to pick me up and help me to laugh. So we looked at the preview for “Marley and Me”. The previews they show for this movie are hilarious and I will tell you that most of the movie will keep you in stitches laughing. It is such a cute movie. I do not want to ruin the movie for anyone so I will not go into too much detail but the end just made me sob in the movie theater. I was not expecting what happened to happen. The crying I did is not like what you would do in a normal movie where you cry over something sad. I did not just cry; I sobbed. I was sad for the rest of the night. Keith and I talked on the way home and he said this, “I guess it does’t matter what movie we watch we will always be reminded of Mari.” And he is just so right.
Before we left for Hawaii, at the beginning of December, we went to see “Four Christmases” with Reece Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn. This was another comedy, it is highly recommendable. The whole premise behind the movie is the characters of Reece and Vince is that both of their sets of parents were divorced and so they had to go and visit each one of their parents houses for Christmas, hence Four Christmases. Well, the first house they visit is Vince’s character’s dad’s house. We are sitting watching the movie and one of the brother’s 9 month old daughter is wearing a beautiful Christmas dress. What is unbelievable about this beautiful Christmas dress is the fact that it is the same exact dress I got for Mari last year and what she wore on Christmas day. I mean what are the odds. So Keith and I think we may not see many new movies for awhile and only watch those that we know will not be such a reminder of our beautiful baby girl.
I must say, Marley & Me was not what I expected. I had read the book, but did not expect the movie. I took my son with autism to see it with his service dog. He begged to go see it as he loves dog and the commercials looked so fun. I am glad I took a big blanket for Chewy to lay on and we sat in the front row. Near the end of the movie my son was curled up on the floor with Chewy and sobbing. He would not leave and was inconsolable. It was more than he needed to see and kept asking about Chewy
Heather,
Even though it is late in coming I wanted to say thank you for posting your comment. Children with autism do not understand things like a movie and they can only take them so litterally. The commercials were not as straight forward as I would have liked them to be. I am so sorry to hear that your son took it so hard.