Last night, because it is after Christmas, I didn’t want to watch a Christmas movie. Instead, I saw that Flu Away Home was OnDemand when I searched for Christmas movies to watch. I watched it last night by myself and cried my eyes out still! Sean was not here so I didn’t have to be strong in front of anyone and I think it’s crazy that. It’s been 13 years now and this song STILL gets to me!!!:
I can remember crystal clearly being in the middle of the left side of that movie theater with my Dad sitting on my right. I remember that my Dad read a review in the newspaper about the movie and it said that it was a good movie and a good father-daughter bonding movie. Given that I was his only daughter, he took me.
I hope to hold that memory in my mind for as long as I live! Also, I reposted about this movie because the links from my last post from January 29, 2014 no longer live. Go figure?! In the six years that I have had this blog, things have changed with the Internet a little bit.
My Mom‘s brothers and sisters get together for a potluck every Christmas Eve complete with Christmas carols and my aunt Lola‘s famous Christmas cookies. I haven’t been able to attend for a few years but this year, I scrounged up enough money to rent a van so that I could go while in my motorized wheelchair.
Because I was seated in my motorized chair, my Mom and my brother put together my plate from the buffet. Once my brother brought my plate over, my Mom cut up my food (because chewing is an issue for me these days) and placed it in a ceramic bowl so I could eat holding the bowl. After a while of speaking with some of my aunts, uncles, some of my cousins and their spouses, my speech began to slur a bit and I got tired.
My Mom asked me what kind of pie I wanted. She told me that apple was an option and I said that I wanted that. My Mom did not make the apple pie this year but I knew that my aunt’s apple pie was just about the same thing. I later learned that my cousin, Cathy, made the pie but it tasted just as good!
As I spoke with my aunt Carmen, my Mom came over and asked me if I wanted cookies. OF COURSE I did!!! My favorite cookie that she makes that has always been my favorite cookie is Spritz cookies in the shape of a Christmas tree. I eat the Christmas tree row by row until it is all gone.
I liked that I was a part of the Christmas caroling and our family’s traditional rendition of the 12 days of Christmas but my absolute favorite is the cookies! My aunt always sends a container of cookies for our immediate family’s Christmas Day celebration.
I am not even the least bit ashamed to say that my breakfast on Christmas morning was book ended with a few Spritz trees before I ate and after I finished. It was Christmas! It’s totally okay to have sugar cookies as the first thing you eat!
I had some with my breakfast and with my lunch as well. As I eat this deliciousness, I think it’s because I am wearing my Ginger Spice chapstick that I have been thinking a lot about my Abuela.
That picture has got to be from Christmas (Note: my Abuela’s pin) and I had to have been three years old. My aunt Rita must have hosted because we were sitting in her house. I don’t even feel bad that there will still be enough cookies for my meals tomorrow and I am going to eat some more because I have waited all year long for this!
I am not going to lie, in the very beginning of this movie, I thought of old-school CCA Christmas parties. and it made me laugh! Then, it got real but still amusing!
My brother, Jimmy, suggested this one to me yesterday and I watched it today. Super cute movie!!! Showed me resilience after loss and after the death of a loved one!
Exactly one month ago today, it was Sean’s ring day at DC, in the church. I had made arrangements to procure a van so as to go to the church and see him in his graduation gown for the first time.
My Mom took my phone to take pictures before the mass started. I was getting situated in the church. I thought the mass was absolutely beautiful and I’m not ashamed to say that I cried a little bit but I tend to do that when I am happy a lot these days. We were able to snap some pictures of Sean and his friends and the gathering space after mass:
Connor and Sean have been going to school together since they were in preschool. When they graduate, in May, sadly, that will end:
Sean went to lunch with a group of his friends and I felt that I was getting tired. He went by himself. Before my Mom and I left the church, I looked at her and told her that since we had the vehicle to accommodate my chair, we should go to the movies! I ordered the tickets on my phone. Last Christmas was already out and I really wanted to see it.
Retrospectively, putting two things in the day at once proved to be too much for me but I didn’t know that until after the movie. That’s why it’s been a month since I posted pictures of my Beeb in his gown. (He’s on the left).
The movie was in a smaller theater and only two other people were there. It was my aunt Crissy and my cousin, Layla. It was like it was the show just for us. I wanted to see this movie because it’s named after my Christmas jam!
I was also interested in the movie, I had no idea what the storyline was going to be:
Because I saw this movie before Thanksgiving, my Christmas preparations were a little bit earlier this year. but I was cool with that!
I dug the movie and I am looking forward for it to be one of the movies or watch leading up to Christmas next year on my TV. Emma Thompson was hilarious in it and there were a couple other George Michael songs that I really dug in it:
It’s a two whole days for me to begin to recover. I have only been out of my house one other time since then and that was to get my eyebrows waxed and my haircut for Christmas.
As I searched through the free movies that were offered OnDemand, this one interested in me. I wanted to see, Eight Crazy Nights but I had to pay for it today. Yesterday, it was free but since it is the first night of Hanukkah, maybe a lot of people are watching it.
I started watching it with an open mind. It had the feeling of a Hallmark movie because I saw the Lifetime logo in the corner of my TV. I thought it was cute and I’m a huge fan of any movie that features single parents!
I saw this movie yesterday when watching, Last Holiday. It was a suggestion and I’ve always liked that song. Once I started watching, who could go wrong with some Idris Alba?! 😍😍😍
I wasn’t sure how I felt about all the drama but there were five kids just like my family. However, there were two girls! Even though they didn’t get along for most of the movie, they know what it’s like to grow up with a sister! That’s something I do not know.
I was running out of free holiday movies to watch and this one showed up in the bunch. I dug the movie but I think there was more emphasis on New Year’s. I can look at some vintage LL though!
Today, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to try the fourth flavor of my chapstick 4 pack that I got in the mail not too long ago.
I’m not sure what I expected but I was thinking that it would be similar to the original Burts Bees chapstick. I think it has been a really long time since I had the original chapstick. I’ve been using the Grapefruit since I busted my knee because I couldn’t use the Açaí Berry one because that one is my Barwis’s chapstick. I swear I will get back there one day!
I am excited that now I have tons of choices when choosing my chapstick in the morning. What can I say?! #SimplePleasures, man!!! I do think tomorrow may be Ginger Spice because I can have the Cocoa Mint anytime during the year!
