Between Natalie’s flu bug and my own sheer enjoyment of the freedom of relaxation I find here, we have been enjoying doing very little and having too much fun doing it!
Last night we finished “Wives and Daughters”, a movie I was heretofore unacquainted with, but found positively delightful.
This morning we opened the windows wide, to let in air that felt like spring.
We finally did some laundry, cleaned up the room a bit (“nesting”, Natalie’s mom calls it), and completed the all-important task of painting our toenails. I also appeased Natalie’s brother Sawyer by making him the cookies he’d been begging for ever since I was here last time. (The promise of said cookies is the only way we can get him to answer the phone when I call!)
Then we got out our yarn and knitting needles and I taught Natalie how to knit. (She catches on very quickly, and has found knitting to be therapeutic. In fact, I personally think she has become addicted. But she claims that she is addicted only to knitting with cute yarn.) I can’t wait to finish the scarf I’m currently working on, in order to begin with the new yarn I found at Natalie’s craft store. It’s such fun to find new brands of yarn from what we have at home! For after all, a girl can never have too many scarves.
We walked toward the stairs to go find out dinner, when we nearly fell over at the sight of… snow! Gone was the warm spring air of this morning. Snowflakes were falling at an alarming rate! Apparently the “late night snow flurries” came sooner than expected. But we didn’t mind the beautiful sight while it lasted.
The rest of the family was gone tonight, so with our assorted dinner of yogurt, enchiladas, sweet potatoes, chicken noodle soup, and stir fried peppers, we settled down on the couch for a fun old flick. We found Fred Astaire’s “You Were Never Lovelier” to be enjoyable, yet it could have been given the award for Scandalous Outfits of the Year for 1941! Though I wouldn’t recommend the movie, I did find a new favorite song: “I’m Old Fashioned” by Jerome Kern and Johnny Mercer.
I’m the type that they classify as quaint
I’m old fashioned
I love the moonlight
I love the old fashioned things
The sound of rain
Upon a window pane
The starry song that April sings
This year’s fancies
Are passing fancies
But sighing sighs holding hands
These my heart understands
I know I’m old fashioned
But I don’t mind it
That’s how I want to be
As long as you agree
To stay old fashioned with me
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Wives & Daughters is the SWEETEST movie. I love it very, very much.
Wonderful that you taught Natalie to knit!
Is it possible to rent wives and daughters? My sister and I have been wanting to see it, but we aren’t sure where to find it!
I have never seen it to rent….but perhaps your public library has it. That is where I borrowed it from.
that was me.
You can rent Wives & Daughters off of Netflix (www.netflix.com).
My library also has a copy. Perhaps your library does too? Or you can inter-library-loan it?
I like the song quote
maybe i’ll make that quote my anthem. whatcha think?
I have loved Wives and Daughters ever since I saw it. Unfortunately, I have only seen it once, but I have recently been thinking its time to see it again.
I got it from my library. That’s best, because it’s free. If you have to do an inter-library loan, make sure you order all of the cassettes at the same time. I made the mistake of not doing that, and had to sit on pins and needles for a few days!