Death by theatre ... lol

Just quickly stopping by ... so busy!

What's new? Hmmm ... the main news would be my theatrical family. Everyone but me has auditioned for something this month, and there has been much success.

Alison and Claire tried out for the PECI performance of Romeo and Juliet. Alison is thrilled to report that she is neither a spider or a cow this year, but is playing Lady Capulet. Claire gets a boy part, but she is excited anyway to play Mercutio, which is quite a large role. Kev, Iain and Claire tried out for the County Theatre Group production of "Guys and Dolls". Kev was a little (a lot) shocked to find out tonight that he has been cast as one of the leads, Nathan Detroit. Iain was cast as one of his gang members, and Claire was cast as one of the HotBox girls. She, however, will decline the roll and concentrate on Mercutio. Additionally, Iain will have parts in Christmas and spring productions at Sonrise.

It's a good thing I don't "do" theatre ... I think our family would implode or dissolve or something :-).

We had two beautiful wee girls stay with us last week ... I will pray for them nightly for a very, very long time. We all fell in love with them, and as much as it was very busy, we would have taken them long-term in an instant.

I have joined Regal as a representative ... not planning on making a huge deal out of it, but we need wrapping paper, and there are quite a few of my friends that are missing Regal as well :-). More info to follow on that.

This is short and disjointed ... but it's something :-). Blessings to all of you!

Monumental moment last week ...

I popped upstairs during school to make lunch for Iain and myself. Going for "fast", I popped hot dogs into boiling water and prepared for a very excited boy (we don't have them often because I loathe hotdogs, but we were pressed for time). Just as they were done, Iain sauntered upstairs and asked what was for lunch. I said brightly "Hot dogs!" expecting cheers, high fives and a hug. What I got instead was ... "Huh. Okay." I said to my youngest man, "You don't sound very excited about hot dogs. Why is that?"

He said ...

(drum roll please) ...

"Yeah ... I dunno ... I just don't really feel like them today."

MY LITTLE BOY IS GROWING UP!!!!

Seriously, this boy has loved hot dogs his entire life. Serving hotdogs to him has been an act of love on my part, in his opinion. My mom world tilts again :-).

And other family news ... Kev had a day off yesterday, and we had a VERY productive day. We managed to get the garage all cleaned out and ready to put the car in for winter. We sorted through and organized the storage area, removing things for the dump. We took a van load of junk to the dump (Wednesdays are a GOOD day for Kev to be home; the dump is only open Wednesdays and Saturdays.) Not a particularly exciting day off for my big man, however it's been tough to find time for these pre-winter chores. Another one looming is our lawns .. they have yet to be mown for the last time. We have a waving wheat field on our front lawn. It mocks us when we look out the living room window. We have had so much rain that it's still wet on the infrequent sunny days ... by the time it's almost dry, it's raining ... or hailing! ... again.

Falling asleep and must go :-) ...