While Daddy is Away...

Mommy will....

not cook

Actually it was Anna's idea on Tuesday night to make dinner for all the kids.She told me that I needed to "take a break and go exercise". LOL!! So she got to work making Christopher, Lydia and herself jelly sandwiches to go with their bologna:) She had a blast being big enough to "fix dinner for everyone"!!




















I did not give the kids bologna all week... but I did NOT turn on the oven (just the toaster oven for chicken nuggets)! The kids did talk me into making pancakes so I did do a little cooking... it was nice to break from cooking for a bit!

and watch "whole" movies :)
So I did watch a movie or two... the whole movie in ONE night...LOL. Brian Loves movies MORE than I do, but he'll watch 30 or so minutes at a time. When it's a war, sci-fi, historical movie that is fine with me (small doses...hehee).

But when it's a great drama or love story... oh, it's painful to not watch it all the way through. Although I do enjoy being able to watch a good movie longer. And it's fun to chat about how the movie will unfold as we put the kids to bed (they already know we watch movies at night...LOL)

So what did I enjoy watching enough to keep me up??? I watched an Indie Romance called Bella. While I obviously don't agree with the situations people found themselves in, I found the movie to be very clean!! Super clean for PG-13... I really don't remember ANY cursing, no sexual scenes, no malicious killing, and the characters were all sweet... except for "the villian", of course, but he was family:) I totally recommend it... and might "force" Brian to watch it as well. Gotta LOVE Netflix and their Watch Instantly titles;)

and stay up too LATE!!
Yes, I have been staying up late. I don't like being the only adult in the house.... so I stay up until I'm exhausted!!

Regardless of all the FUN Mommy had, it is nice to have Daddy home!! After 4 days of being home alone with the kids I'm ready for some backup:)

Brian and I headed off to the movies late on Sunday night. Brian had seen a preview of a movie and wanted to check it out. Near Grandma and Granddaddy there is a movie theather that is really CHEAP, so it's a treat to get out and see a new release. Especially since Brian really enjoys movies and LOVES going to the movie theather.....which don't ever do at home.

The movie he wanted to check out was I Am Legend starring Will Smith. We havn't seen every Will Smith movie, but the handful we have seen we've enjoyed:) I didn't know anything about the movie, in fact, I hadn't heard of it or seen previews....I must not watch enough TV :)

We went and after just a little while I knew it wasn't for me. I endured a little over half the movie and then I had to get OUT of THERE. I'm sure some will read this having seen the movie and think I'm a wimp. But there is only soo much violence, suspence and gore that I can handle or even should handle.....

One mistake we made was to trust the rating system. This movie was only PG-13!!! PG-13 for people turning into vampire-like beings, suspenseful scenes where you just waiting for some creature to attack the main character...not for me....but probably shouldn't be for a 13 year-old either!!

One way we could have avoided this waste of our "evening out" was to check a great resource frm Focus on the Family. They review movies using all sorts of categories and give you warnings and suggestions about watching. Brian did check this but looked only at the a couple of categories....he didn't want to spoil the movie but learning all of the twists in the plot. But this would have been a great one to have read completely through!!! Maybe next time I'll read through it....it doesn't bother me to have some of the plot revealed....sometimes it actually helps me get the details of the movie better:)

Children's Song: "Oh be careful little eyes what you see, oh, be careful little eyes what you see; For the Father up above is looking down in love. So be careful little eyes what you see."