I’m writing this for the sole purpose of sharing the hilarity we experienced today. Quick update before we jump in to the story, Elizabeth had her third chemo infusion last week and all went well. She had about three days of significant fatigue and on and off nausea for about five days. After about a week she is near back to “normal”, whatever that is…
This Christmas season we have been pulling out all the stops. Having less events we are willing to go to because of health concerns, we are trying to do more fun things. Naturally we look back to things we enjoyed as kids and try to incorporate. The first classic Christmas movie we decided to pull out was Home Alone. Such a good slap-stick humor movie, am I right?!
Well what we forgot about this movie was how there are a few parts that may not be suitable for children ages four and seven. Aside from the scary furnace and robbers chasing a little boy all over New York, there are some phrases used that we don’t want our kids repeating. Phrases you don’t realize they caught until they say them out loud…
The first of these came as we left the house. I took the boys out for a bit so Elizabeth could get some quiet time at home. There was a smelly bit of trash we had set outside so Malachi ran past it shouting “that stinks, let’s get the hell out of here!”. Insert facepalm here…
I’m not sure if it was the fact that he used that phrase in general or that it was used in the perfect context that was so funny, but I kept my cool and told him that was not appropriate talk. That darn Home Alone is teaching some bad language! But that wasn’t even the worst/funniest part… on to Target.
After a quick pit stop at Fortress for hot cocoa and smoothies we head to Target for a pick up order my lovely bride placed. I pulled into the designated parking spot and notified the store we were there for our order. In the back of the van Malachi was ripping off line after line from the movie. Kind of scary, but I know where he gets it from (hint- it is not his mom).
A nice gentlemen walks up and hands our couple of bags through the window and begins to walk away.
“You can keep the change, you filthy animal!” Malachi shouts from the back seat as the guy walks away.
The shock of those words prevented me from losing my cool entirely.
As I drove away I attempted to explain why we don’t quote movies to people we don’t know, but everyone should have seen Home Alone by now. I Hope that guy found it as funny as we did. Kids these days…
Elizabeth and I were in tears laughing as I recounted the events of the days. Thank you Lord for comedic relief. Malachi seems to be a common source of that these days.
In this season of joy we have found much hope in our faith and community. Dear friends of ours showed up and set this up for us. What a great surprise. Hope you all have an amazing Christmas and see the joy in the every day experience.
God is good.