Monday, November 5, 2007
Family Movie Nights
We have a new tradition we have started with our family. Every Sunday night we have "movie night" where we all cuddle up on the living room floor and watch a movie together. It has been something we look forward to every week. TW has been finding us some great movies that are values based. The first one he just kind of fell upon at the movie store. "Facing the Giants" was our first family movie night premiere. Great movie! A movie about a football coach and what he has to overcome to turn the team around. The next week we watched "The Sin Eater." AK had fallen asleep early, thankfully, and AA made it through. Another good movie, but scary for younger kids. It ends up being good and warm, but has scary parts. Then we started the Love series based on the books by Janette Oke. It is a series of four movies and we just found out that the fifth one comes out in December...YES! "Love Comes Softly", "Loves Enduring Promise", "Loves Long Journey", "Loves Abiding Joy". The new one that is released on Dec. 4th is "Loves Unending Legacy." We are patiently awaiting its release. :) Most of these movies are through Fox Faith, christian and family movies everyone can enjoy. Last night we watched one of my favorites thus far..."The Ultimate Gift." WOW! Great movie! It really puts life in perspective. The soundtrack is awesome as well. Check out the website http://www.theultimategift.com/ I hope you check out one, a couple, or all of these movies. They have sparked great conversation for us and the kids. It is so nice to know that there are still appropriate movies that promote the goodness of life out there in this ever increasing negative world.
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What a great idea!
Sydney is reading The Ultimate Gift in her 7th grade reading class. It's an awesome book!
Where do you get the movies? Do you rent them? Do you buy them????
You get to decide where to eat!!!
Have you watched the American Girl movies yet? They are good too!
Awesome idea!
Movie nights are a great way to snuggle. We do them on either Fri. or Sat., depending on what is happening that week - we usually have a pizza or something the kids think is fun for dinner and then we put Babers to bed and watch it with the older kids. Babers will not sleep if he is up and he just keeps trying to turn the tv off. Someday he will join us.
I think my mom has watched some of these titles on the Hallmark Channel. Do you own these or did you rent? It is a constant struggle to find a movie that fits all four of us! Thanks for passing along some ideas! Great holiday gift idea.
Sounds like a wonderful time. I'm 54 and some of my fondest memories are of my parents, brother, and I sitting in the living room with popcorn and Pepsi watching tv (no videos then). You just don't need elaborate events to make memories that will always last. Good for you and hubby for doing that!!!!
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