Take a quote
from your favorite movie — there’s the title of your post. Now, write!
Ohhhhh,
Stuff Crust
“I
will stuff you ALL in the crust!” (Despicable Me)
Another thing
I love about my husband is his quick wit and way of playing with words. The title quote spoken by Gru to his kids and
the minions is something just like my sweetheart would say. He can make a joke out of almost anything and
bring a sly grin or loud cackle out of me so fast. Most of my favorite movies are kids’ movies,
and the fact that my husband (having no children of his own and taking on mine
by choice) discovered kids’ movies with us and learned to enjoy them just as much
as we do says a ton about him.
For the 3 years my children didn’t live with
me, I took them on many a weekend trip to the island of Roi-Namur, which is
where my husband lived before we were married.
He would plan, set up, and execute the most wonderful family friendly
adventures….these are truly some of my most treasured memories with my children
and with my husband. Who does that? He
was always thinking of us and what we would like to do, eat, etc…and he was a
big contributor to making the little bit of time I had with my boys back then
top quality.
We spent
plenty of holidays there including the night before Easter morning camping in
tents at his beach shack (where rats chewed through our tents to get to the
chocolate the Easter Bunny had delivered (whoops! Mommy was still learning
about camping…and obviously the Easter Bunny didn’t know much either) and egg
hunting on the beach in between all the coconut palms and scagliola
plants. Christmas was fun too…again with
another rat pack adventure…chewing through my suitcase and a stocking while
goodies from Santa awaited pick up at the storage facility by the airport.
Grrrr….I love these holidays because they were full of adventure; they were
unique. I hope my children remember them as fondly as I do.
Now,
birthdays were the best!! My husband made a real treasure map with aging,
browned torn edges, a wax seal, and an “X marks the spot.” For this, we had to
use our newly discovered GPS skills (we had recently started Geocaching) and a
rented golf cart to take us around the island to find each present and eventually
the hidden treasure, which was in the real WWI hospital bunker long covered
over by creeping jungle vines.
I also have
pictures (actual ones as well as memories in my mind) of regular weekends spent
practicing our jumping pictures into the most wide open ocean from the pontoon
boat, making Kung Fu Panda rice krispie treats, playing basketball, digging
holes to China in the sand, going to the outdoor movie theater and eating tons
of popcorn, grilling out at the beach shack, walking the shores for treasures,
and taking our “Sunday Drives” with the golf cart to go feed the chickens on
the other end of the island.
Makes me sad
to think that these days and times are long gone as my boys are getting older
and spending more and more time with their friends and less and less time with
mom and dad, but we’ll always have these memories and our movie nights,
remembering the fun and laughter together whenever we hear, “I will stuff you
ALL in the crust!”
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