Boredom...

I have been wanting to post but haven't had the energy... nor creativity to do so lately. Old Man Winter has arrived and it is COLD! Windchills were below zero this morning. All I want to do is crawl back into bed and I will as soon as K3 leaves but that is still over an hour away. And nothing but a short nap for me today. I need to put in our GS cookie order via computer this afternoon and since I missed the "training", this means I need to spend time on the phone getting verbal instructions first.

Then as has been normal of late, I need to get K2 from school today. This time it is forensics practice that is keeping her late. Her first meet is this Friday and she has been working hard to fine tune her demo. She missed qualifying for poetry reading last week and then had to switch to Demo. So she has had less than two weeks to prepare for Friday but I know she will be fine... hell, better than I would do. I hated public speaking (still do in fact) and did everything to avoid it. Forensics was never even something that I considered in school.

I haven't been doing much of anything lately. Working... reading... revving (finally!)... being a mom... I really feel the need to do something for myself and can't find the time. J's birthday is Sunday and his mom suggested coming down and going out to dinner with us. Don't get me wrong... I love having them come down but the house has just never been put back together since Christmas and that is a huge project I have ahead of me. But this is good... it definitely needs a good thorough cleaning and with them coming, that will kick my butt into gear to actually do it!

So I apologize that there has been nothing to read lately... hopefully soon. Maybe I will pull an older post from my Yahoo 360 page to share here. We'll see...

The Giver

Having three children, it is very rare to spend time with only one, especially both parents at one time with just one child. Last night we had that opportunity. There is a local children's theatre in town that we have been going to quite a bit in the last two years. Each play has a few adult actors but the majority are child actors. We have never been disappointed in one of their plays yet.

This was opening weekend of The Giver based on the Lois Lowery book. This book was one of K2's all time favorite books and in fact, she pestered me until I read (about a year ago). It is definitely not a happy book and makes the reader think quite a bit about the freedom of having choices. In the book, Jonas lives in what seems like a perfect world. It is not until he is made the Reciever of Memories at the Ceremony of Twelve that he learns of the dark secrets behind his community. The play stayed very true to the book, of course, parts were cut out but nothing that made the story lacking. It was very, very good.

What we really like about this theatre company besides the majority of children involvement is that after each show they have a talk-back sesssion. They take questions from kids in the audience and usually one of the actors will answer. With kids doing the asking, one never knows what exactly will be asked... we have heard some great questions (why didn't I think of that? type) and some hilarious questions. My favorite question last night was of the hilarious nature and it was posed to the stage director... The back wall of the set was white plastic panels cut into triangles and emphasized with dark colored lines for accent. A little boy asked if that was all duct tape holding that wall together! Yeah, go kid!!! Duct tape is everywhere! The unique thing about this talkback session is that Lois Lowry was present. Questions were posed to both her and the actors. I love hearing authors talk especially children's authors.

Normally after a night out at the theatre, J & I would go for drinks or dessert someplace downtown. We decided to still continue this however we let K2 pick where we would go. She chose (finally! took her long enough...) Cheesecake Factory. J and K2 each had a piece and I shared off each of theirs... banana cream and choolate raspberry truffle. Yummy! I love their dessert!

It was a great night!