Home Alone

This weekend I felt a bit like the kid in the movie Home Alone. My husband, daughter, and granddaughter all went to Disneyland without me. Actually, Sara had planned to drive down alone to the park in Southern California with Eva, but my husband decided that wasn't a great idea. He offered to drive them down and accompany the two of them to the park, and they accepted his offer. I suppose I could have gone too, but the weather was horrible at home and I did have Ozzie to look after. It was simpler for me to hold down the fort.

I did some sewing, a lot of reading, and watched two Hallmark movies and the new Three Pines series on Amazon Prime. I made cranberry coffee cake and drank boozy coffee (as you can see above). Boozy coffee is a Keurig pod of Cinnabon-flavored coffee and a splash of Frangelico liqueur. My diet was terrible, but I slept like a log and Ozzie and I got along all right. It was pouring rain all weekend, so taking him out to do his business was a bit of a production, but we got through it. That dog sure does hate to get wet. 

Someone is bound to ask, so the two Hallmark Christmas movies were "A Midnight Kiss" and "My Big Fat Family Christmas", both of which were really good. Midnight Kiss was about an event planner and My Big Fat Family Christmas was about a Chinese American family who lives in San Francisco and throws a big party every Christmas. They were light, fun, and cute. Where do they find such attractive people to star in those movies?

The new Three Pines tv series, which is based on the Louise Penny novels was very enjoyable. I look forward to more episodes. I think Alfred Molina was very well cast as Inspector Gamache.

I finished the book "Gingerdead Man" and give it 3 stars. I started another Christmas-themed novel called "The Twelve Slays of Christmas" which I liked a lot better. It is set on a family-owned Christmas tree farm that is not just for cutting down holiday trees, but serves food and has all sorts of Christmas-themed entertainment. A town busy body ends up dead and everyone is a suspect. It is a fun and very atmospheric holiday book if you like that sort of thing. I finished it yesterday evening and give it 5 stars. If you are looking for a great book to read during the holidays, this could be it!

All in all, it was a great weekend. I got a teensy bit lonely, but the junk food and tv helped....

The family brought me back a Mickey gingerbread boy, so I guess my diet will have to wait.

Comments

[Pamela Dempsey]

Sounds like a great weekend to me! At least you weren’t watching true crime shows and getting scared at every sound 🤭! We are watching the 3 pines show too and I do like the detective guy. It was sweet they brought you back a gingerbread man 🥰

[Diane]

Three Pines! I had no idea. I live for those books. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll give it a try.

[sue s]

I love Louise Penny! She was in town last week to promote her new book and the tv series. I watched the show and enjoyed Molina, but will have to get used to the format.

[Margaret]

Did you know that the person who wrote The Twelve Slays of Christmas wrote other books? My library has 3, so there are at least that many in the series.

[Jan]

Your coffee sounds decadent! Ozzie was probably thrilled to have you all to himself for a couple of days! Glad you had a chance to finish a couple of good books & some tv time, too! Onward toward Christmas! 🎄

[Sally]

Sounds like you made excellent use of being home alone! Your boozy coffee sounds delicious. Yum! I have been very happy when I put Rumchata in my coffee. :) Give Ozzy a cuddle from me and all his other "cyber aunties".