Narnia with the Children

We took the 3 oldest children to see Narnia

at the local children's theater.

The kids really enjoyed it - it was long for Cy Guy- but he did great!

This girl

was excited for another chance to wear her Christmas dress

and her fake new glasses!

Really, they are not real.

However, her vision is borderline, so we may need to get used to it!

We ate our little snack, finished the 2nd half of the show,
and headed to our car.  Little did we know (because NO signs were posted!) that the parking garage closed!  We had a little scare, but thank Heavens someone was leaving for us to sneak in the gate!

(Please ignore someone's sweatshirt - he did have a nice shirt on under...)

This & That & Netflix

Today is the kids 100th day of school

the k-ers had to take something to represent

100 days of school.

Lydia wanted to take suckers

so we made this beauty.

Yesterday we signed up for our free trial of Netflix.  Already I am not too impressed.  There are movies I would like to see, but they simply do not have them or they do not have them "instantly". (I realize my movie selection is a bit different in that I am one of those who wants some "quality"- is that too much to ask?!)  Anyway, some of the movies I would like to see are on DVD that have to be mailed. 

Listen to me whine ~I need it "instantly"!  Really I want convenience too!

I wanted to watch this version of Heidi (we just read a shortened/junior version of the book).  All Netflix had was the movie with Shirley Temple as Heidi - which was fine.  We were watching it and I thought it seemed strange it was in BLACK & WHITE still.  I thought someone would have put some color in it by now... 

Well sure enough there is a colored version out there - Netflix just does not have it.  Geeez, Netflix...

I wish Lydia could have seen it in color. At one point while we were watching the BLACK & WHITE version, I turned down all the lights, and it helped see the movie better and Lydia said,

"Oh yeah mom, turn off the lights, maybe that will put color in it."

Anyway, Netflix carries a lot of trash.  There is some good stuff, but you have to look.  I wanted to see this movie too, but it looks like I will have to wait for the DVD to be mailed!  Am I becoming part of this instant gratification culture?  Sadly, I admit yes...

Our Lady of Lourdes Rice Krispie Grotto

Yesterday we made a Rice Krispie Grotto in honor of our Lady of Lourdes. 

I saw the idea at Catholic Icing.

Of course we just kind of "slapped" ours together, not quite so fancy.

We also watched the story of Saint Bernadette

available here.

An interesting fact about Saint Bernadette is that her body never corrupted after death.  She is one of the incorruptible Saints of the Catholic Church.

I find that just amazing!  Anybody that has anything agaist the Catholic Church or think that is is soo "off" how would you explain that?

You can check out Saint Bernadette here.

Wise words from this

Pizza eating

Tough Guy

Yet silly boy

About this movie

I will be honest this movie is a bit strange, but who does not love that little girl, she must truly be a sweetheart in "real life".  Anyway, the school principal is a dreadful woman, who does not like children as Evan (my son) was telling me as we were talking about the movie.  Evan mentioned the teacher in the movie grew up with the terrible principal and proceeded to tell me "that is her deep, dark secret that caused her pain" - I am not sure if that is a quote from the movie or if my child is becoming a psychiatrist!