![]() ![]() Another fun word I learned was “alebrije” which are spirit animals who guide us through life and now I want one of my own. Like the word “ofrenda” which is a picture display of our family members who have gone before us so they can be remembered and come back to visit the living on “Dia de las Muertos” which means day of the dead. I’ve learned more Spanish in this movie than I did sitting though three years of it in high school. The journey this movie takes you on celebrating the day of the dead from the land of the living all the way to the magical place where our loved ones go after they’re gone was truly incredible. The next hour and 38 minutes was filled with nothing but pure enjoyment. The opening music while the Disney castle comes on the screen and I’m already feeling it. As much as I wanted to put on a movie I had seen a thousand times I was in the mood to watch something new. All I could do was put my feet up, get comfy on the couch and put on my favorite Disney movie right? But what to watch…that’s when I remembered my brother Matt’s review of Coco. I only had 4 days til my due date and was all packed and ready to go any moment. Needless to say I was feeling pretty crappy. ![]() So bad that I’m now convinced I had COVID but who knows. I had tested negative for the flu & strep which was good but bad at the same time because that meant there wasn’t any medicine they could give me being 9 months pregnant to get relief from the terrible cold I had. I had called in sick to work after having my last pregnancy appointment earlier that morning. It was a Wednesday afternoon at the end of February. Acting like I was going to use Disney+ for my kids when I was totally looking forward to binge watching old Lizzy Maguire episodes instead. Except now all I had to do stream them right from my phone which is what I was looking forward to doing throughout my 3 month maternity leave. I was so excited to watch all the old Disney movies I used to watch as a kid on VHS tapes after lining them all up on the living room floor playing “eeny meeny miny mo” in order to decide which one to watch. That all changed once I signed up for Disney+ a week before I was due with my second child. My son Phillie was 2 years old at the time and was already locked in on Moana & Cars so introducing him to a new movie didn’t seem too promising. I take his movie criticism very seriously but still didn’t know if and when I would take the time to watch it. My brother Matt had told me he had seen it before and loved it! He talked about how underrated he thought it was saying he didn’t know many people who have seen it. I knew it had won a bunch of awards and all that good stuff but I still had no intentions of ever watching the movie. I was judging the movie hard solely based on this one song. Mainly because I heard the song “Un Poco Loco” from the movie on the Alexa so many times on the Disney playlist. To be honest I didn’t think the movie Coco was going to be that good. ![]()
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