Julie and Julia and Laura

This weekend I guilted my husband into watching Julie and Julia with me. I LOVE cooking so this movie totally spoke to my soul. What I was not expecting was how the movie portrayed marriage and couples in this incredible light! I am so sick of movies that surround divorce and couples fighting and all other kinds of junk. I loved how this movie showed Julia and her husband totally adoring one another and supporting one another. In fact while I was watching this crazy women and her incredibly supportive husband I could not help but reflect on my own slightly crazy tendencies and my amazingly and unwaveringly supportive husband. As we watched this movie I thought of the countless "dreams" I have to get a PhD, to go to culinary school, to live in a distant country, to go to hair school, to open a home for troubled youth, to be a foster parent to disabled kids, to be a stay at home mom, to become involved in public policy and so much more. And I could not help but think about the husband I have been so blessed with who when I tell him of theses dreams never attempts to shelter or calm my very independent spirit and always replies "If you want it we will find a way to make it work". How grateful I am for the men in my life who taught me to think for myself, stand on my own two feet, and go for my dreams. As Sister Hinckley once said, "My husband gave me wings to fly, and I have been forever grateful for it".