A Spooktacular Halloween Tradition One of my favourite times of the year. The house gets decorated like a graveyard, I get to scare people, then give them candy, and my kids get to go out trick or treating. So much damn fun! Each year, our family watches a lot of movies around this time. The kids watch the animated or family friendly ones, while Wendy...
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We live such busy lives. Between work, commuting, school, swimming lessons, choir practice, Brownies, Girl Guides, and Taekwondo… there is not a lot of time left for quality family time. That’s why when we get the opportunity to spend time together, we embrace it. What’s This? What’s This? One day after school, Lauren asked if we could have a Netflix Family Movie Night. Rachel suggested...
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When someone asks me to define the movies of the 80s, one name comes up. John Hughes Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Weird Science… the list goes on. Even though Mr. Hughes made movies into the 90s, there was another movie that defined that era. Now don’t get me wrong… there were a ton of great movies in the...
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I’m a bit of a John Hughes junkie, and grew up watching and loving all of his flicks. The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Pretty In Pink, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off… I could watch those movies over and over again. But take a look at the 4 movies I just mentioned. All had one thing in common. Mean people. Mean Girls Having lived in Africa with...
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Yo Holmes, to Bel Air! My girls love this show. They have been watching The Fresh Prince of Bel Air for a while now, but it always seems to fall in times when we are either out or there is something else on. Now with Netflix, we can watch it whenever we want. As mentioned in an earlier post, it was one of my favourite...
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