Doing Almost Nothing

We’ve had a wonderful holiday season in the Ellett household despite worries about money. We have not, however, done very much. We followed all our Chanukah and Christmas traditions and enjoyed all of our family rituals but we haven’t been inclined to do much else since but relax at home. Maura had a few play dates with her cousins and friends but I have hardly left the house since I did the holiday food shopping last week. I didn’t even drive Maura to her skating lesson on Monday. Her mother is on vacation this week and she took her.

Our one family excursion out of the house was to go to see a movie, one last Christmas tradition I didn’t mention last week. Sometimes we go on Christmas Day but this year we waited until Tuesday afternoon, two days after. We try to find a movie that the whole family can enjoy, but of course it must be a movie that is appropriate for Maura. We let her pick the movie but the adults in the family get a veto over anything that doesn’t appeal to us. Most often we see an animated movie because we all enjoy them. Most years we see a Disney feature but there wasn’t a new one this year.

This year the movie Maura chose  was Tin Tin which we saw at the Cameo Theatre in Columbian Square, Weymouth. It was a good choice; we all enjoyed it. It had plenty of action and humor. The plot was not a surprise to anyone familiar with the Tin Tin comics but nevertheless satisfying. Maura wants to read some of the comics now. I’m proud of her.

After the movie we went out to dinner. We had a little money set aside to have fun over the vacation, we were hungry and it was late. We went to one of our local favorite restaurants, Sweet Lemons, our local gem of a Thai restaurant. We weren’t disappointed. We’ve been going there for years and the food and service have been consistently good.

I’ve really enjoyed a few days of doing almost nothing but I am finally starting to get a little bit of cabin fever. It’s nice out today for almost January. I think it’s time to go out for a walk.