What We Watched On Our Summer Vacation | 2023

I was hoping to be back today with a finished sock and a sweater with its arms separated but things didn’t work out that way. Instead, I’m here to share what we watched last week while Matthew was on vacation. He and I don’t typically get to watch much together during the week because of his work schedule and I usually turn off the TV when I’m alone in the evenings. So it was a fun change to cuddle up on the couch with some popcorn and our remote control. (and maybe a fair amount of lemonade spiked with bourbon.)

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It took us several days, but Matthew and I managed to watch Jaws 1 and 2. Neither of us had seen either one before so these movies were a lot of fun, especially given that marine life has finally decided to take its revenge on humans. I have to say that I really enjoyed the 70s outfits and hope those come back around really soon! I’m sure you’ve all seen these movies and don’t need to be convinced one way or the other, but! they are perfect for the summer and I’m really glad we finally watched them.

I think there are four Jaws movies? Maybe we’ll try 3 and 4 on Matthew’s summer vacation next year.

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We started watching Shiny Happy People on Amazon Prime. This is a documentary about the Duggar family and interviews one of their older daughters, Jill, along with other survivors of the religion her family follows. It is fascinating but very disturbing. We’ve only watched two episodes and I’m going to have to go very slowly with this one – one episode at a time is enough to chew on!

The second episode definitely put a bad light on homeschooling. Please know that our homeschooling curricula is very different than what’s portrayed in this documentary!

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We finished the fourth season of Yellowstone. Every episode of this series is compelling and completely draws me in, despite my inclination to dislike the show. I can’t help it!

And still – we’ve decided to push pause on Yellowstone for now and start the fifth season after all of the episodes are released (only the first half is available to stream right now, the second half is currently being filmed). You might remember that I only started watching this series because I wanted to watch the prequel with Tim McGraw and then I got hooked on this story. So 1883 will probably become the next show we watch on the weekends and I am very excited!

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And looking back at all of this TV time, I can’t help but wonder why I didn’t pick up my knitting??! I’ve fallen out of this practice over the last couple of years. I know it’s because I am so exhausted by the time I sink into the couch every night and the thought of moving my body, even just to knit, is too much! So that’s okay – that idleness was an important part of my winding down process last week.

And all of this TV time has meant less time for reading but I’ll still be back on Wednesday with a report on what I’ve read over the last two weeks. It’s not much but it was very, very good!

I hope your week starts out well and I’ll see you soon!