A Little Unconventional

It seems like we are always having some sort of movie night in my house. Our newest thing is taking turns deciding on movie marathons. Jessica choose The Wizard of Oz marathon where we watched Oz Great and Powerful, The Wizard of Oz, The Return to Oz, the Tin Man miniseries, and The Muppets Wizard of Oz. Wyatt just ended his Hobbit and Lord of the Rings marathon. Its my turn to choose and I’m going a completely different route. I’m going with the Tinkerbell movies. Which got me thinking about this week’s topic, feel good movies. I have different ones that I like depending on what is going on in my life.

For me, a feel good movie is anything that can pick me up when I might not be feeling the greatest. I’ve had many nights where I’ve woken up with a panic attack in the middle of the night. While my mind was racing and I was trying to calm down I would put on a movie so I wouldn’t feel so alone in the still darkness of the night. Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorite movies to turn to on nights like that. Ther version with Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfayden is the one I watch most often because I own a digital copy of it so I can easily pull it up on my laptop and fall asleep watching it. (We don’t have tvs in the bedrooms). This movie is so relaxing and comforting to me because I know it so well. I have always loved the book, I really like the miniseries with Collin Firth as Darcy, as well. Every single time when Elizabeth finally admits that she has fallen in love with Darcy, I cry a little. Since, I know the story so well, I can put it on and fall asleep to it.

I have two other feel good movies that I want to talk about today. These movies are not what people would generally think of when you say “feel good movie” but they are for me. No matter what is going on in my life either one of these movies could be put on and about five minutes into them I would be grinning from ear to ear. We watched these movies all the time when Wyatt was younger. He was obsessed with them. I remember one year he got one on dvd for his birthday and we watched it 13 times in one weekend! It pretty much played on repeat that weekend. Our family has never gotten sick of it. There have been days when my “happiness was broken” and I just didn’t want to do anything and felt like crying for no reason. We would put these movies in and I’d be smiling and singing along. Jessica and Wyatt would hurry into the room to watch the movies. These movies are Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas and Curious George: A Halloween Boofest. I really think these two movies are my go to feel good movies because they remind me of simpler times, they bring the kid out in you, plus they have some really cute songs, and a monkey! It probably helps because no matter how old my kids are they will come and snuggle down on the sofa to watch Curious George. What can make you feel better than snuggles with your kids?

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