fantastic families and where to find them.

If you are at all familiar with anyone who has a pretty awful disease, you know that for anything to work right, you have to have lots and lots of support.  Garrison Keillor, writing about his dad's final illness, said that for him NOT to have to go into a home, he needed all of his six children. That is about right.  Dad had five children and it took all of us to get him through that last transition to the big grammarian in the sky.

We're  incredibly lucky because we have our gang all within spitting distance. I can  call and one of them will be here within a minute if I need them, but most importantly, they know WHAT is important. And they will figure everything out before surprising me with a great treat.

It took quite a coordinated effort because Pat was still pretty sick, but one bought the tickets and met me at the theater, and another one ran her children to a third one so she could run back to our house to sit with Pat while I was gone.  It took 3/4 of our  daughters, massive coordination and logisitics, but mission accomplished.  Got to see the movie based on Harry Potter "apocrypha" as my sister, BB, calls it.



Here's the trailer.

 http://www.fantasticbeasts.com/