Moms

Me - Moms, wow! I love my Mom. My Mom is fun. I like to hang out with my Mom and do stuff with my Mom. We spend a lot of time together because we blog together. Ever since, I was a baby I've been really close with my Mom. We watch a lot of movies together. We watch Nashville together. Nobody else in the family likes it. We read a lot of the same books whether we are reading a book together to review for the blog or we just read the same book separately. Then, we talk about the books we read. We talk about a lot of things. We talk about so many things going from topic to topic so fast that when my Dad is around, he can't even keep up. We do a lot of fun things. Sometimes, we go places. I love my Mom.

Mom - When I was young, I was always closer to my Dad. My Mom was the serious one. My Dad was the fun one. As I got older, I became closer to  my Mom. I guess when I got married and had kids I gained a new appreciation for my mother. I could relate to her more. Once I got married,  it wasn't that my mother didn't worry about me anymore. I mean once you are a mother, you are always a mother and you worry about your kids no matter how old they are. It just wasn't as much of a nagging worry. Of course, my Mother doesn't just worry about me she worries about all of us not just my Dad, my brother and sister and I and not just our kids (her grandkids), but the extended family as well: aunts, uncles, and cousins too. She even worries about her friends and their families. My Mom is the kind of person people going to when they are having a crisis, and my Mom is always there for them. She is the center of our family as was her mother before her. We almost  always have family gatherings at her house. In some ways, I am like my mother.  I am organized like her. In other ways, I am not like her at all. I am not always good in a crisis, and I don't excel at family gatherings like my Mom does. I appreciate that my Mom is good at those things. I am sure I don't always show it, however,  I do appreciate all she does for me and for everyone else in our family. We are all lucky to have her.

And that's is our view. What is (or was) your favorite thing about your Mom?

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Funny Friday - Are You An Animal?

Me-

When I was little, my brother said "Melia, are you a cat?"

So I said, "Okay. Meow. Meow."

Mom-

When Aurella was little, I asked her "Who says moo?"

"Aurella." she replied.

"What kind of animal says moo?" I asked.

"Daddy." she replied.

The Bardy Bunch

 Me - The Bardy Bunch, wow! The Bardy Bunch was a mixture of , ,  and   It is a comedy but to really enjoy it it helps to know a little bit about the Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, and . Even though it is a comedy there is a lot of fake blood and violence. It is very gory. There are also ghosts, but they weren't really scary. The show was funny, and I liked it. I didn't like all the violence and bloody parts. I liked all the songs. They were all from The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family.  My favorite songs were It's a Sunshine Day and I Think I Love You.  My favorite character was Laurie Partridge. I didn't like the character of Mrs. Brady. She was kind of selfish and evil and power crazed. The other characters were okay. The acting was good. The singing was good. It was funny the way in the stage show they over-exaggerated the way that they dance on the TV shows, and the way they play their instruments on The Partridge Family. I liked that they had old albums as part of the set. I didn't really have a favorite part of the show, but I especially liked when they did the songs. Over all, it was a good show, and I enjoyed it.



Mom - When I was a kid, I loved The Brady Bunch, and I especially loved The Partridge Family. When I was in college, I read many of the works of Shakespeare. When I heard that these three things had been combined into one show, I couldn't wait to see it. I was not disappointed. It was one of the funniest shows I have ever seen. It was surprising that a show with that much violence could be so funny, but it actually was hilarious. I loved the music as well. Just listening to the music made me remember being a kid and hearing it while watching Brady Bunch and/or Partridge Family episodes on TV. Many of the situations that happened in episodes of the original shows appeared in this show as well although not necessarily exactly as they occurred in the original shows. The whole thing  just made me totally nostalgic for my childhood. In the version of the show which we saw all of the actors were incredibly good in their roles. However, that version closed on April 13, 2014, the night we saw it. However, if you have a chance to see this show in the future, I would highly recommend it.

And that's our view. Do you prefer The Brady Bunch or the Partridge Family and why?

Tune in tomorrow for Funny Friday.