What Are You Watching Right Now?

Dear friends,

We need something new to watch at night after the kiddos have gone to bed because let’s face it: cuddling up on the couch and watching TV after a long day is our favorite past time. Will you help us?

We just finished a few great shows and we have that same feeling you get after you finish a great book. You know the one: “What do we do with our time now?” It feels like starting all over. We started and finished some new shows and binged our returning favorites, but now we’ve watched everything (we think?) and we need something new to enjoy. Here are some of the ones we’ve been loving lately:

• Locke & Key

• Sex Education Season 2

• The Outsider

• The Leftovers

• Succession

• Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector

• The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Season 3

• The Thing About Harry

And not just TV shows, but movies, too! Have you seen any good movies lately that you would recommend? What are you watching these days? Anything worth seeing?

Sincerely,

Two tired guys in desperate need of something to binge. xx

A Most Productive Night

Indeed.

Most nights are, especially here lately (and after the kiddos are in bed), spent in front of the TV watching Netflix with a glass of wine as we unwind from the day. But for some reason, last night was different, and we felt like actually being productive before catching up on the latest episode of The Outsider. So that’s exactly what we did.

PJ has been working on repurposing an old bathroom cabinet from our last flip house (that we just sold) that we took out of it FIVE YEARS AGO and it just sat in the basement for FIVE YEARS doing absolutely nothing. It goes without saying we’re so excited to finally be able to use it, especially in our laundry room, which we never officially finished after moving in, and as looked cluttered and messy for three years. It’s technically a finished room, we just never installed cabinets for storage, so everything lands on the floor and the floor is where it stays. We have big plans to finish the laundry room out, all while using repurposed cabinetry and a little DIY magic. Can’t wait!!

While all of this was going on (and the oldest kiddo was watching PJ work), Thomas was in the kitchen chopping and sautéing and making beef stew for dinner tonight. Actually getting a day’s head start on dinner for the next day because Monday’s are stressful enough without having to worry about what to cook is reason enough to call last night a productive night.

After all of that, we finally settled in on the couches and caught up on our show. That is, until the middle kiddo woke up, was wide awake, and wasn’t going back to sleep any time soon. So we brought him downstairs for a little one on one time in the living room, complete with a late-night dinner (with chips and salsa! - his favorite) session with Alyster (who he calls kitty-kitty).

Hope you had a great night too, friends. xx

When Thursday Night Feels Like a Friday

School is cancelled tomorrow due to the fact that it kind of snowed/rained today, so we did the only rational thing to do: we made a chocolate cake at 7 o’clock at night.

PJ’s favorite cake of all time (and the one he requests every birthday) is the Hershey’s chocolate one on the back of the Hershey’s cocoa box. His grandma used to make it when he was little and, while he’s not a big cake and icing guy, it’s the one cake he comes back to time and time again and reminds him of his childhood. Have you ever tried it? It’s the most moist and delicious cake there is. Promise. And it tastes the best when made late at night after school has been cancelled. Double promise.

The boys were especially interested in helping bake the cake, though they mostly just watched and kept saying: “ahhhh!” and “ohhhh wow!”. “R” kept smelling the batter over and over again, and putting his head so far into the bowl that we had to tell him to back up a few times, haha. He has a thing for smells and always requests to smell what we’re cooking. How cute is that?

PJ always says it reminds him of the chocolate cake from the movie Matilda when the kid has to eat the entire thing in front of the whole school. Can’t you picture it? We usually make the homemade icing on the back of the box, but tonight’s cake was so good it didn’t need any, so we ate it just as it was. And it was absolutely perfect.

We posted on our IG stories that school was cancelled and we were celebrating by making cake and thought nothing of it because school being cancelled as a kid = happy dance, right? But we received a message from a school teacher kindly letting us know we shouldn’t be celebrating the fact that there’s no school, as it’s hard enough for teachers to get kids excited about school as it is. She shared with us that teachers do the best they can and that they rely on parents to make sure kids like and look forward to school every day. We thanked her and appreciated her sharing that with us SO much. We had no idea. We’d never thought about it from that perspective before. The kids love going to school right now and we want to make sure it stays that way. The internet can be so great sometimes.

Here’s to a three day weekend! Hope y’all had a great night, too, and stay tuned for tomorrow morning for a brand new Feature Friday (finally). xx

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(above pic provided by Johnny Sibilly)

Valentine’s Date

Getting the middle kiddo ready for his lunch date with his aunt while his brother and sister are at school. How cute does he look in his pink shirt and jeans?

Happy Valentine’s Day, y’all!