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Posted in Books and Shows, Let's look

Let’s Look

Posted on by jgalvinwhite

Hello!

How’s your week going? Y’all, my long travel day on Sunday and then hitting the ground running on Monday caught up with me! Yesterday, I woke up from a dead sleep at 9:30! I got almost 11 hours of sleep. I can’t believe it…but clearly I needed it.

I also can’t believe that it’s already the second Wednesday of the month which means I’m linking up with Shay and Erika for Let’s Look.

So far this year, we’ve looked at:

  • How we clean our closets in January
  • Little things we do every single day in February
  • What’s in our grocery cart in March
  • Our daily quiet time/prayer time in April
  • Our summer closet staples in May
  • Our summer schedule in June

This month’s topic is let’s look at…podcasts and shows we binge.

Podcasts:

Well, I still don’t listen to a lot of podcasts. That being said, I finally reconnected my phone to my car, so maybe I will start listening to more podcasts when I have time.

On the podcast app on my phone, I do have downloaded random episodes of:

  • Absolutely Not (you know I love Heather McMahan!)
  • Hey Dude, the 90s Called (I love that Christine Taylor and David Lascher interview so many actors from the 80’s/90’s!)
  • I’ve Had It (Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan are hilarious!)
  • Let’s Be Honest (Kristin Cavallari doesn’t hold back!)

Two podcasts that I listen to regularly are:

Calm Down (Erin and Charissa talk about sports, news, travel, gossip and more!)

& …New Heights with the Kelce Brothers.

Just FYI – I was listening to this podcast before Travis and Taylor started dating! These two are also fun to listen to.

Audio Books:

I’ve just gotten into listening to audio books thanks to a few road trips and travel.

I listened to these two audio books last month:

This month, I’ve listened to Matthew Perry and Matthew McConaughey’s books, both narrated by them. I will share more in my July book review, but I really enjoyed both. There were definitely parts of Perry’s book that were hard to listen to knowing of his now untimely death.

I could listen to McConaughey’s voice all day long…just not on 1.50 speed like I usually listen to books and podcasts. haha!

Shows:

Recently, I watched Twelve Final Days about Roger Federer’s final twelve days before retirement. It’s on Amazon Prime, and I think it was just under two hours long. So, it’s not episodes, but a short documentary.

He’s definitely one of my favorite tennis players, and I loved seeing him off the court with his family as well.

On Netflix, I’ve been watching America’s Sweethearts about the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, and I’ve really enjoyed it. I watched it last week when I was in KC, and I still have one episode left.

Also on Netflix is Sprint about the US sprinters in the year leading up to the Olympics. Of course, this is a family favorite.

My summer guilty pleasure is always the Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip on Peacock. It’s been fun to see the NY ladies again.

Travis and I have been watching Presumed Innocent on Apple TV. I think we’ve watched the first four episodes. Our viewing has been kind of sporadic as we watched the first episode before vacation, and then watched a couple more before I left for KC. A new episode comes out every week, so hopefully we can keep the momentum going.

Right now, Hadley is re-watching all of All-American before the next season comes out…

…and Hayden’s been watching Friday Night Lights. Travis and I used to watch that show together when it was on TV. We were telling the kids how we used to look forward to watching it live every week…and that went over their heads. haha

Travis and I both stop and watch some of the episodes when Hayden has the TV on. Who doesn’t love Coach Taylor and Tammy?!?

Movies:

On our flight home from Seattle, I watched The Boys in the Boat, and it was SO good. I’d wanted to see it when it was in the theater, but that just never worked out. Now I want to read the book. I highly recommend it.

I love having extra time in the summer to watch shows that aren’t normally on during the year, or finding the time to get caught up on shows or movies that I’ve missed out on. Usually, my reading time dips a bit in the summer, but I’ve been good and keeping that up too!

Do you have any suggestions on shows I should watch? We have Netflix, Prime, Peacock, and Apple TV.

Posted in Books and Shows

Winter Movies

Posted on by jgalvinwhite

Hello and happy Saturday!

Well, while the temps have turned colder these past couple of weeks, we’re still waiting for the pretty white stuff to fall…and stick…for a snow day!

Today, I’m sharing some of my favorite winter movies…maybe by doing so, Mother Nature will get the hint!

Of course during Christmas break, I have a bit more time, and I always want to watch some Christmas movies.

Every year, as a family, we watch:

  • Home Alone
  • A Christmas Story
  • This year we also watched National Lampoon Christmas Vacation.

Bonus is when I find time to watch other Christmas movies too…like…

  • The Holiday
  • Love Actually
  • The Family Stone

I do feel like January and February are slower months for us, so I try to watch a few other faves. It’s nice to have some extra time on the weekend or an unexpected day off to watch some of my (our) favorites.

Some of my favorite “winter” movies are:

  • Serendipity (fun fact: This was the first movie Travis and I ever saw in a movie theater together…back in 2001.)
  • While You Were Sleeping (I watch this movie often, but Hadley watched it with me first the first time Christmas break 2022 and liked it.)
  • Sleepless in Seattle (Hadley and I watched it over break this year…and she said it’s her new favorite.)
  • Cool Runnings (This is a favorite from my childhood that I loved watching with my kids too.)
  • The Mighty Ducks (same memories/thoughts as Cool Runnings)
  • The Cutting Edge (I remember watching this one so often with my brother…He still will randomly say, “toe pick!”)
  • Little Women (classic!)
  • Frozen (Oh how I miss when Hadley was obsessed with all things Frozen)
  • You’ve Got Mail (Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan do no wrong in my book!)
  • Groundhog Day

What are some of your favorite winter movies?

Posted in Top 10

Top 10 Tuesday

Posted on by jgalvinwhite

Hello!

Today is a Tuesday with no school, so I’m going to make the most of it.

A few weeks ago, I shared a Top 10 Tuesday post all about my favorite nail polish colors.

Today, I’m sharing some of my favorite movies.

There’s something about this time of the year, and when I have time in the fall and winter months, I like to watch movies whenever I can.

If I see that these movies are on, I will watch them. Some of them, I make a point to watch, especially during winter break when I have some extra time on my hands.

Here are my top 10 favorite movies:

These are in no particular order until I share the top 3.

10. You’ve Got Mail – I love the fall/Christmas setting of New York…and the dial up AOL gets me every time! Hadley and I watched this last winter break, and she loved it. Just this weekend, she asked if we could watch it again.

9. A League of Their Own

Tom Hanks yelling, “There’s no crying in baseball!” Classic. Also, Alice’s bruise…ouch! The end with the former players coming back to see the hall of fame is such a touching scene.

8. An Affair to Remember

I don’t remember the first time I saw this movie, but I just love it. Romance at its best and amazing actors. This is a timeless classic.

7. Swiss Family Robinson

This Disney classic is one from my childhood. When we took the kids to Disney World in 2019, and we visited the tree house, they thought it was so cool. As soon as we got home, Hayden wanted to watch the movie and enjoyed it.

6. Top Gun

This movie is so exciting, and just one of my favorites. Of course, we saw Maverick when it was in the theater in 2022. The kids loved it too.

5. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

This musical is the best. I love the actors, the songs, and the dancing.

4. Home Alone

Holiday classic for sure! We always watch this one around Christmastime.

Top 3:

3. While you were sleeping

This movie is so sweet and funny. I’m a big Sandra Bullock fan, and Bill Pullman is great too. The entire cast is great. I love Saul and Elsie….and Joe Jr. are my favorites too.

2. Sleepless in Seattle

This is just such a sweet movie. I love Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks.

1. The Parent Trap

My all time favorite movie is the original Parent Trap. Again, it’s a Disney classic that I remember watching as a kid. I even had a VHS of the movie, and I watched it time and time again.

Of course, I’ve seen the Lindsay Lohan version, and it’s fine, but I love the Hayley Mills version the best.

I wish I had time to watch a movie today. What are your favorite movies?

Posted in Books and Shows, Family

Family Movie Night

Posted on by jgalvinwhite

Hello!

Well, I often feel like my family is always on the go and that we spend very little quality time together. Honestly, I probably don’t give us enough credit, but I thought it would be a good idea to set an intentional goal to watch at least one movie a month together as a family…so we’d have less of this:

We started the year off strong, and then you know the saying…”best laid plans…” Anyway, in general, we did spend more time together watching movies this year. I will take what I can get.

This meme is for Hayden…lol:

Obviously, the main goal was to have all four of us watch the movie, and that did happen most of the time!

Here are the movies we watched this year:

January:

On a snow day in January, the kids and I watched Sing 2. It was one of those movies that Hadley and I started watching and Hayden ended up joining us. We all loved it.

February:

We watched Home Team. It was a funny movie that we all enjoyed.

March:

The Cheaper by the Dozen remake was so good!

April:

We watched the Adventures in Babysitting movie and enjoyed it.

May:

May was a busy month. We didn’t even up watching a movie at home but we went to see the new Top Gun in the theater with friends. It was a definitely a must see movie! (especially in the theater)

June:

In June, Hadley & I watched Sneakerella. It was a cute movie.

As a family, we went with a classic: Big Daddy. I think both kids had seen it before, but it’s still such a laugh out loud movie.

One evening, I watched Goonies with Hayden. We both have seen that movie many times and love it.

July:

One night, while Hadley was at camp, I watched Jurassic Park (original) with Hayden. Again, it’s one we’d both seen before, but will watch it again and again.

Once Hadley got home from camp, she chose Family Camp for our family movie…and Hayden vowed to never let her choose a movie again! haha

It was just ok.

August:

Well the busyness of back to school got to us, and we didn’t sit down to watch a movie together.

September:

In September, we started off strong Labor Day weekend. We saw Grease at the drive in with friends, the kids saw Jaws (in 3D) with cousins, and Travis and I watched the Elvis movie at home. (Unpopular opinion: I didn’t like it.)

October:

Well, this was kind of a random viewing month with not much time. The kids watched the new Hocus Pocus and The Addams Family on fall break.

November:

On Thanksgiving night, Hadley chose Uncharted (because of her love for Tom Holland). I hadn’t heard of it, but we all loved it!

December:

Of course, December is filled with some Christmas movies. Over break, I finally had time to watch a few, and Hadley watched some with me.

One of my favorite movies is While You were Sleeping, and Hadley watched it for the first time with me. Then, we watched another one of my favorites: You’ve Got Mail. (not a holiday movie, but one I always watch on break). Hadley enjoyed both, but said While You were Sleeping was better.

As a family, we watched Home Alone one evening…

….and A Christmas Story on Christmas night.

While in KC, we all watched Glass Onion at my mom’s house, and we all loved it.

While some months, we didn’t see a movie as a family, I think we still were pretty successful carving out time to hang and view some pretty good movies.

Fun fact: my favorite movie of all time is The Parent Trap (original) I watched it over break too.

What’s a great family movie you love?

Posted in Books and Shows, Friday Favorites

Friday Favorites {#17}: Movies

Posted on by jgalvinwhite

Well, we made it to Friday!! I’m linking up with Andrea, Narci, and Erika for a Friday Favorites.

Since it’s almost the last day of the month, I should be posting about the books I read in February, but as I mentioned in Wednesday’s post, I’ve kind of been in a rut this month in the reading department. So, instead of reading, I thought I’d share some favorite movies that I (as well as the kids) have been watching lately…and they are all pretty family friendly depending on your kid’s age.

We got Disney + in December, and it’s allowed me to watch some of my favorite movies from my childhood….some of which the kids have enjoyed watching with me as well. Hulu and our Amazon Prime membership also provide avenues for us to watching great movies as well.

A few of our faves…

Disney +

Y’all, hands down, my favorite movie from my childhood is the original Parent Trap with Hayley Mills. I used to watch it on VHS so much that the tape must have worn thin because the part in the movie when Verbena realizes the girls made the switch, would always skip to the next scene! I don’t even acknowledge the Lindsay Lohan version as an option, but I do love Natasha Richardson, so I have seen that version a time or two.

Other movies we’ve watched on Disney + include:

  • Sister Act- Hayden watched this with me and I fast forwarded through a scene or two and danced my way around Sister Deloris’ lounge singing profession 😉
  • Turner and Hooch – Only I watched this one–and I’m thinking Hayden would like it if I could skip over when Hooch’s owner is killed—yikes!
  • Honey I Shrunk the Kids – We all love this one!
  • While You Were Sleeping -I can watch this one on repeat! Such a sweet movie.

Amazon Prime

My brother had told me that Cool Runnings was on Disney +, but when I went to check it out, it said the movie would be available in July due to “existing agreements.” I had already told the kids about it and promised we’d watch it, so we paid $4 on Amazon to stream it—and that’s how we spent our New Year’s Eve! #wildnight Everyone enjoyed the film!

DVD

Another favorite that I love is Swiss Family Robinson. This summer, after we visited Disney World/The Magic Kingdom and toured the SFR tree house, the kids (especially Hayden) wanted to see the movie. I ended up buying in on DVD from Amazon, so we’d always have access to it. I loved that movie so much as a kid and would watch it on repeat as well. Besides the DVD, we now can watch it on Disney +, but we didn’t have that option in the summer. Travis had never seen it, and we all enjoyed it!

Swiss Family Robinson house at the Magic Kingdom

Over Christmas break, we watched The Mighty Ducks with the kids because Hayden had received it on DVD as a Christmas gift. Again, it will be on Disney +, but has the same “existing agreement” issue that Cool Runnings had. When we watched The Mighty Ducks, I had forgotten how great a movie it was…and who doesn’t love a comeback story?!

Hulu

An Affair to Remember

This movie was on Hulu last month while I was sick with the flu, so watching it was a great way to pass time in between naps! While An Affair to Remember wasn’t released during my childhood, I remember watching it as a kid. I loved Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant together. Her beauty and his good looks are timeless…plus the plot is so romantic.

Father of the Bride

I love this movie and watch it any time it’s on cable (or now Hulu, for us!) I remember, at 11 years old, thinking how cool it would be to have Kimberly Williams as an older sister. Of course, Steve Martin is a hoot…and the superfluous buns scene is hilarious! I also love the part where Annie calls her parents from the airport. So sweet. I love all the characters in the movie from the little brother to Martin Short as Franck. The movie is just so heartfelt. I watched it just last week on Hulu and Hadley loved it too.

Erika also shared family movies this week…Make sure to check out her post….She referenced so many good movies as well!

What are some of your favorite family movies? Or movies from your childhood?

I hope you have a great weekend.

Jen