As a member of Netflix’s #StreamTeam, I’m the lucky bearer of awesome, newly curated Netflix content which, I’m pretty sure, will make you (and your eyes) as happy as it’s made me (and my eyes). This month’s theme is bringing back Friday as a family movie night. Whaaaat? LOVE.
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If you’re like me- and I know for a fact that you are- then you’ve got a bajillion things to do, never enough time to complete it all, and a strong hankering to just stop and chill with the people you’re doing the bajillion things for. By Friday afternoon, I was ready to throw in the towel and just exist with them. (Minus the towel part. Because I seriously nixed the laundry for the day.)
This past week was a doozy. A DOOZY. First week of pre-K for one, first school in the history of ever for another…and the first time every single nap took place in car seat for the third.
Add to that the fact that Friday was really cold, really wet, really dark, and really malaise-y, and boom. You’ve got all the makings for an exceptional movie afternoon.
Here are some cozy titles for you and the Little set:
- Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (…but only if you enjoy adorable hilarity)
- The Pirate Fairy (Tinkerbell? Pirates? Boom.)
- Angelina Ballerina (don’t even pretend like you don’t pirouette in front of your TV)
- Bob the Builder (can we fix it/build it/love on this series? YES WE CAN)
- The Muppet Movie (required viewing)
And you guys know how much I love blanket tents, right? (I love, love, love blanket tents.) So I was more than a little stoked to check out this month’s themed activity from craft and prop stylist Kelly Ladd Sanchez- probably the best blanket tent (that you would never have been allowed to make as a kid).
That said, I nixed the pushpins and ceiling decor this go ‘round because a) I wasn’t really feeling the sharp items/three little kids mix, and b) I decided to spare P.J.’s heart rate. (“Hey babe, remember that room we just repaired after the whole sewer explosion? Well…I tacked blankets to the walls. Cool, yeah?”) That THAT said, I remember making epic blanket forts for my little sisters with my middle school pal that included pushpins and drapey scarves and other beauteous things- and I remember thinking that that was the best thing I’d ever do.
I made a lazy man’s (mom’s?) version and layered blankets, pillows, stuffed animals, more blankets, more pillows, and my actual children. We viewed Hoodwinked for the first time, a witty and fast-paced claymation caper. (A mystery involving fairy tale characters and a frog detective whom I was pretty sure was based on Nick Charles, my most favoritest detective? I am IN.) It was cozy. It was heavenly. It was exactly what we needed.
We may never go back to a normal couch again.
Or Monday activities.
No argument, here.
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