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The December Boys: Family Ties

Stefan and I took a year long sabbatical of Blockbuster online to save the $18 a month and put it to some more worthy causes (i.e. paying off medical bills) and just recently have decided that this would be a monthly expense we could live with after recently getting out of our gym membership ($60/month). We chose netflix because Blockbuster's prices have skyrocketed, and we really don't watch more than 4 movies a week--that is stretching it! So we chose the Netflix "2 at a time" option and because they have a center in Omaha, we literally get it 'next day', which is great. Our movie list has gone down tremendously and we've seen some great ones like Across the Universe, Enchanted , Stardust (we both loved this one--very quirky), and now tonight, The December Boys. The entire cast was good, and one of the boys is played by Harry Potter himself (Daniel Radcliffe). Watch the trailor here and read the plot here.

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Davenport Dame said…
Sarah! I just love reading your blog. I'm thinking about checking out The December Boys--I just saw a preview for it yesterday.

I can hopefully start living again once I'm done with student teaching!! How is the house/job/move situation going?

~Leslie

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