I took Andy to the movies today. I recently took Eva to see a movie and he did not get to go. He had felt left out even though he wouldn’t have enjoyed the movie in the first place. Well, we have had a Thanksgiving tradition in years past to go to a Disney movie the night before Thanksgiving. We were not able to do that this year so instead I took Andy to see Encanto today.
Encanto is a musical about a family that has some special magical gifts. Andy really enjoyed the movie, too.
This year we hosted Thanksgiving at our house. My parents came from the Cape and we also hosted Allison’s friend Colleen and her mother. Allison and Colleen prepared a ton of food last night and got ready for everything today. Allison made sure that she made many recipes that were gluten free so that my Mom could eat them including a gluten free green bean casserole. Colleen’s mom brought over a pumpkin bread that we can eat tomorrow morning. We had apple pie, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cake and chocolate chip cookie pie. So much food.
After dinner and everyone headed home we got changed into our Christmas pajamas. This is a yearly tradition. This was the first year that the pajamas fit well for sleeping. As we lounged in the new pajamas we enjoyed watching the movie 8-Bit Christmas. This was a hilarious movie about one kids’ quest to get a Nintendo Entertainment System. It starred Neil Patrick Harris and Steve Zahn. I really enjoyed it and we laughed a lot during the movie. Although, the movie was set in 1988 and that was a bit late in the NES and Cabbage Patch craze. Seeing as this was something I lived through and it was so close to my own personal Christmases of years past I remember the dates very clearly. Christmas 1984 was all about Transformers and Cabbage Patch Kids. My grandparents scoured the Eastern Seaboard for them. Christmas 1985 was the year of Nintendo and more Cabbage Patch kids. 1988 was way late in the NES game. That aside, it was a very fun movie.
