Quote of the Month: October 2014

Trying to get caught up over the holiday weekend so I'm starting with October's quote of the month. 

I think that you just gotta have the bad days to love the good days even more.  Trust me, I would know. - Alexander Cooper from the movie, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day.

Friday (October 10) We saw Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day. It was really funny.  We give it a thumbs up.  The Cooper family (the family in the movie) really did have the worst day ever but in the end, they were able to turn it around.  It reminded me of my very bad day (parking ticket, dead battery, missing a chance at meeting Mo Willems, Leah having a bloody nose while riding on I-95S, and being at a literal standstill on said interstate as a tornado passed across the road five miles south of us).  It was while crawling (figuratively, as I was driving my car) on I-95S near Quantico, avoiding fallen tree limbs, that I made the conscious decision to look for the bright side instead of dwelling on the negative.  For instance, instead of complaining how long it took to get home, I was thankful that we weren't in the direct path of the tornado.  From that day, I've tried to remember this and always focus on the positive rather than the negative.  Steve Carell's character in the movie, Ben Cooper, does what I do times 100.  I think I would have cracked had I had such a terrible, horrible, no good very bad day but it just goes to show you, no matter how bad you have it, there is always someone else out there that has it worse.