The weekend is here and I'm ready! Is it just me, or do the short weeks always feel longer than normal? Let's get the weekend started by checking out my five for today ~
1. National Doughnut Day
Start your day off by celebrating National Doughnut Day! Swing by Krispy Kreme for a free donut today. Dunkin' is also giving away a free donut with the purchase of a beverage. Yum! Would how this day got its beginning? It's a day designed to honor the Salvation Army Lassies, the women who served doughnuts to soldiers during World War I. In 1917, the original “Salvation Army Doughnut” was first served by the Salvation Army ladies. It was during WWI that the Salvation Army Lassies went to the front lines of Europe. Home-cooked foods, provided by these brave volunteers, were a morale boost to the troops.
2. Spirit
The theaters are opening back up and there's a great movie for the whole family coming out today. Here's the summary from Movie Insider ~
Lucky Prescott (Isabela Merced, Dora and the Lost City of Gold) never really knew her late mother, Milagro Navarro (Eiza González, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw), a fearless horse-riding stunt performer from Miradero, a small town on the edge of the wide-open frontier.
Like her mother, Lucky isn’t exactly a fan of rules and restrictions, which has caused her Aunt Cora (Academy Award® winner Julianne Moore) no small amount of worry. Lucky has grown up in an East Coast city under Cora’s watchful eye, but when Lucky presses her own luck with one too many risky escapades, Cora picks up stakes and moves them both back with Lucky’s father, Jim (Oscar® nominee Jake Gyllenhaal), in Miradero.
Lucky is decidedly unimpressed with the sleepy little town. She has a change of heart when she meets Spirit, a wild Mustang who shares her independent streak, and befriends two local horseback riders, Abigail Stone (Mckenna Grace, Captain Marvel) and Pru Granger (Marsai Martin, Little). Pru’s father, stable owner Al Granger (Emmy winner Andre Braugher, Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine), is the best friend of Lucky’s father.
When a heartless horse wrangler (Emmy nominee Walton Goggins, FX’s Justified) and his team plan to capture Spirit and his herd and auction them off to a life of captivity and hard labor, Lucky enlists her new friends and bravely embarks on the adventure of a lifetime to rescue the horse who has given her freedom and a sense of purpose, and has helped Lucky discover a connection to her mother’s legacy and to her Mexican heritage that she never expected.
Summertime is arriving and with the longer days, the kids are outside more than ever. Worried about them getting eaten up with mosquitos? Try these repellent bands! There are 20 in the pack and each one is made with natural ingredients and deet free. Throw them in the suitcase for your vacation. Put them in the backpack for day camp. Wear them on a wrist or ankle. They are perfect for any outdoor activity!
Taylor Jenkins Reid's latest book came out this week -
Malibu Rising. It' sounds like a great summer read! Here's the summary ~
Malibu: August 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over—especially as the offspring of the legendary singer Mick Riva.
The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Oh, and maybe Hud—because it is long past time for him to confess something to the brother from whom he’s been inseparable since birth.
Jay, on the other hand, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can’t stop thinking about promised she’ll be there.
And Kit has a couple secrets of her own—including a guest she invited without consulting anyone.
By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family’s generations will all come rising to the surface.
Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them . . . and what they will leave behind.
5. Where's my phone?
We have some fun things on the agenda this weekend. My nephew graduates from high school and we will be able to celebrate him on Sunday. After over a year of putting our monthly game nights on hold, they are starting again tonight. Fun times! In between the fun, I have a to-do list that's the length of my arm! Pop in next week and see the highlights! Have a great weekend!
