Favorite Things Fridays

I have several things to update over the next few days. Alex and I have both been recovering from strep-throat this week so I haven't been up to much. We are just hoping Sterling escaped it. However, he is my child and I am VERY susceptible to strep. I got it at least once a year growing up, and I had it around his age as well because I had scarlet fever when I was very young (for all of you luck folks who didn't really have to deal with strep as kids, scarlet fever develops from untreated strep). So we are keeping a close eye on him, and thankfully our pediatrician is open on the weekend.

So, on to Favorite Things. Harry Potter. Alex and I read the Harry Potter series a few years ago (right before book seven came out), and we love Harry. J.K. Rowling is such a wonderful writer and sucks you into her make-believe world from page one. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is by far my favorite book of the series, so we were very excited to go see the movie this week. I drugged myself with Tylenol and Advil all day Wednesday so that I would feel up to going see the movie that night. And it was very good. Of course like all movies the book is by far better than the movie. I'm not even sure how you can understand what is going on in the last few HP movies without reading the books. But it was still very good. Do I wish that they had stuck to the book a little more closely, yes. Do I wish the movie was a little longer, yes. Even so, it was a great movie! I will have to watch it a time or two more, but it could be my favorite movie of the series as well.