Sometimes life's most precious moments are the simple ones, with pajamas instead of fancy dresses, sippy cups instead of steaks and wine, and no photographers, just the mind's eye to preserve the perfect memory.

Tonight my family sat down to do a relatively simple thing - watch a movie, in this case Despicable Me. One Philly Son has never sat through a movie, so the wisdom of this decision was not clear from the beginning.

But he loved it, and it is an adorable movie that One Philly Daddy and I enjoyed as well. It was a perfect evening.

And then it got better. One Philly Daddy said "this is his first movie, so we should buy it, and then we can watch it and Big Fish on Christmas"

The back story is that One Philly Daddy and I do not own movies as we rarely watch them and rarely want to watch a movie twice. But our first date was Big Fish, a kooky movie about love, and when it was clear we wanted to spend our life together, we bought the dvd of Big Fish and occasionally pull it out to watch. Anniversaries and special nights. It always takes us back to the beginning and fills us with excitement for our future.

So when he said we should buy Despicable Me, I saw a family tradition, a future unfold, with visions of loving hours on the couch together, growing children, the passing of time as we grow, learn and love together.

Yes, it was a perfect moment.