Everyone loves Love Actually. How can you not, its a great Christmas movie! It has something for everyone. Plots that twist and turn around around each other, unrequited love, hilarious jokes and one-liners. It has a killer wedding procession that anyone would kill for I don't care who you are:
But however my favorite scene in Love Actuallyis towards the end with Keira Knightley and Andrew Lincoln. It's a moment we have all been in. Telling the person you love how you feel, when you know deep down they don't feel the same. However you have to do at least this one big grand gesture or else you will regret it forever.
I will do anything and everything to go to London, and see this. Miss Saigon is returning to London in 2014.
Miss Saigon is one of my favorite musicals. This unbelievable heart-breaking musical is about a Vietnamese girl, Kim, who falls in love with an American GI, Chris, the night before Saigon falls during the Vietnam war. Based loosely off of Madame Butterfly, Claude-Michel Sconberg and Alain Boubil wrote the musical after seeing this photograph:
A mother sending her child to America to meet her GI father they never met before in order to live out the "American Dream." The music is so haunting, and the ending will leave you sobbing. Not to mention, my wedding song is in the show haha.
Christmas has come early! Registration and donations are now open for the 2nd Annual Mother's Day 5K Race for Christina! The Logan family will be hosting the race again at Tyler State Park in Richboro, PA. Race registration includes a bib number, bracelet and t-shirt. During the race there will be a 50/50 Raffle and food provided by Great Harvest Bread Company.
Last year' race brought in over 200 people and we raised over $11,600! We have raised our goal this year to $15,000 and hope that more family and friends will share their Mother's Day morning with us.
I am dying to know what everyone wants for Christmas this year! I already got my parents gift, finallllllly figured out what I am getting my brother Matthew. Christina is easy, a restaurant to write on for her food blog, or save up for our pending Sister's Trip in 2014. I think I finally figured out what to get Drummer Boy. My fam and friends keep asking me what I want for Christmas, so I decided to make my Christmas List....(cue Kelly Clarkson's My Grown Up Christmas List)
1.) Gift cards, gift cards, gift cards! It's funny as we get older we don't really need things, just bare essentials to help us get by! I love getting gift cards at Christmas time and really find a way to stretch them out for a long time. Some of my must haves are:
Reading Terminal Market - From grabbing lunch to groceries for the week, the terminal is my favorite place to shop.
Whole Foods - My other go to place to shop!! I hate those people that say "Omg Whole Foods is like so expensive." No its not! Sometimes produce is cheaper than Superfresh, I only get scoops of salad, and how can you go wrong with $1.08 nips of yummy gouda?
Starbucks - I know I have a coffee problem, be an enabler and help my addiction
Cosi - This is a new one this year. I am finding myself goign to Cosi more often recently to get a cup of soup (their Tomato bisque is ammmmazing).
2.) To condense space and just use one saucepan, I really love this Le Creuset Saucepan. Those of you who have been to my apartment know I have a collection of wonderful lifetime Le Creuset products and I want to add this to the bunch!
3.) Cabaret Tickets - There are three out of body, mind blowing, Broadway experiences I have had in my life. One was when my parents took me to see Lea Salonga perform a short run of Miss Saigon on my 14th Birthday, I have never cried so hard at a show before it was amazing. The second was recently when my friend Chris and I went to see the closing performance of Follies. Not only was the audience filled with Broadway royalty but it was so thrilling to watch Bernadette Peters and Jan Maxwell kill it. However I will never forget when I saw Cabaret with my friend Travis at Studio 54 with Alan Cummings and Natasha Richardson. We sat at a side table, and I was on the edge of my seat from beginning of the show to the end. The same revival is coming back to Broadway in March and I am dying to see it!!
Cabaret, 1998 Revival
4.) Waffle Maker - Mine broke during vacation, ugh too many bacon waffles with the man friend. I love the TRU Dual one from Bed Bath and Beyond!
6.) More than anything I just want to raise awareness and find treatment for Friedrich's Ataxia. My goal for the May 2014 Mother's Day 5K Race for Christina is to raise over $15,000. I would love to have the same people come back next year and to bring in some new friendly faces.
So there it is! I am dying to know, what's on your Christmas list??
Catherine
Today is #givingtuesday ! First there was Black Friday, then Cyber Monday, and now Giving Tuesday. Started by the UN to celebrate and provide incentives to give to local or national organizations that rely on donations to operate. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to my sister Christina's foundation FARA, Friedrich's Ataxia Research Alliance. FARA helps provide research and awareness for those diagnosed with Friedrich's Ataxia. Through FARA Christina has become an ambassador to help shed light on this rare disease. Currently there is no treatment or Cure FA.
Christina crossing the finish line at the Mother's Day 5K Race for Christina, May 2013
