Minutes to Memories

My family seems to have an on-again, off-again love affair with something we call "family night." If you can't deduce what a family night might be, it really isn't that complicated: it's simply a night each week set aside for our family to do something together.

We've tried this concept a few different times along the way, but for some reason we always seem to fall back into our old bad habits of flying solo. Then, for some reason, we remember what is really important in our lives and try again.

Enter New Year's Resolution #1: Tonight was our first attempt at "family night" in 2007.

Jody & Hillary went to Blockbuster and rented a movie none of us had seen before, a fairly recent Disney movie called Eight Below. The movie is based on a true story from Antarctica, and it features eight snow dogs who brave the elements to rescue lives, followed by a six-month survival test of their own when they are left behind for winter.

Yet in the end, the story turns out to be about love I guess - love in the real sense of the word. Jerry (pictured above), the man who loves these dogs deeply, embarks on a rescue journey of his own, in spite of everything else that stands in his way. Eight Below is a lesson that love will lead people to do anything to be together.

Which is an awfully good lesson for a family night, huh?