Yours, Mine and Boogies

Day one of operation "Watch All My Movies" has begun. The last one among my films in the house is Yours, Mine and Ours with Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball. I love this movie. It has been a while since I had seen it, over a year for sure. It is such a wonderful movie about love and family. It is really encouraging that both Helen and Frank found love after loss and based on the dialog it seems to be even greater than the love they had before their previous partners had died. And despite challenges and adjustments they just loved each other and all of those kids. It gives us all hope that tragedy can and often does change the course of our lives, but hope lies right around the corner. 

I told myself that I could find an RA program for any of the movies in my DVD cabinet. I stand by that challenge for myself. A major theme in Yours, Mine and Ours is that theirs is a blended family and many students coming to college today are coming from families that are not only blended but maybe multiple times over. One way to program with this film is to talk about family and the many different kinds of families that exist. Have your residents share their family structures and learn from each other the diversity that exists in families right on your floor. Helping everyone understand where we come from will help better the connections and relationships we form. 

There is also the scene with where Lucille Ball is fed a large amount of alcohol without her knowledge and she makes quite a mess of meeting Frank's kids. Albeit the unrealistic speed of her recovery that evening- it is a good starting off point to program about when someone you thought you could trust puts something extra in your drink. It is always disastrous and when consuming you should TRUST NO ONE. 

Wow, not much in the way of funny today, but hey- how do you make a tissue dance? You put a little boogie in it! Or in my case some snot from those tears I shed watching this great film.