Preparing for Harry Potter.
Mood:  happy
I've mentioned before that we are big Harry Potter fans. Not completely rabid, mind you, but pretty intense, especially for a woman of my age who oughtn't to be obsessed with books and movies meant for kids.

It's Sam who got me into it. I didn't give a fig for Harry Potter until one of the movies came on cable and he insisted on watching it. Just that once, and Bammo! I was hooked.

The current big news, amongst us Harry Potter types, is the new movie which is being released on June 4. Now, Sam has never been to the movies before, so I hatched a plan to have this be his first moviegoing experience. And I'm not kidding around about it, either. We've bought our advance tickets online and I am taking a day off work so that Sam and I can have our very special Harry Potter movie date, one on one.

The fun part is to hear Sam tell about it. "I'm going with Mommy. Not Daddy. Not Matt. Not Erika. Not Joel [Erika's boyfriend]. I'm having popcorn and a coke. And we see that skeleton guy and he scares Harry."

Such a buildup! We're both anxiously awaiting the day. And I am crossing my fingers as hard as I can that Sam doesn't get scared, wig out in the theatre, and insist on leaving. Because this could happen. And I guess it would qualify as child abuse to force him to sit through it, howling, so that Mommy can have her Harry Potter fix.