Because being a Stay-at-home-mom (SAHM to laypeople) is my current profession, I am required to multi-task on a daily basis in a way some people have never experienced. My “pay” (bringing up healthy happy children who turn into independent, admirable adults) is by no means immediate, and it also depends upon my ability to […]
WOW… here it is 2AM wee hours of opening night and I cannot sleep. Really, the last time this happened was opening morning of my favorite show and I got even less sleep for obvious reasons.. chief among them being I had to be up SUPER early to be on television promoting that show. Plus,
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After Tuesday nights ever predictable rehearsal from heck, the cast, crew, and orchestra really pulled together tonight. Tuesday’s rehearsal was predictably bad because I have yet to be in ANY show in which opening week was not full of pitfalls. I actually would be very surprised if I ever in one that ran flawlessly… I
WHOOO HOOO WE HAVE A SHOW!!! Read More »
No rehearsals tonight, and that is a good thing. I have to go over my lines again, but that is a given when in a play. Until it is over, the lines have to be comfortable in my mind. But it is an easier night. I used my time to get a bit of shopping,
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I had a really stressful day yesterday. The kids went completely crazy at night – was it a full moon? I didn’t check. Even if that was the case, other little things kept going wrong also. Little things – things that really shouldn’t matter. Except that when those little things are added up, they equal
Ahh… A Relaxing Baseball Game And A…. LOSS?!? Read More »
We saw the Oscar nominated film Doubt the other night. Normally, I like to see as many of the major Academy Award contenders before the awards show airs as it did a few weeks ago, but it’s usually not possible to see every single one in time. Even though it didn’t win any of the
Everyone says it. Our family, friends and acquaintances are in agreement – our two middle children look just like each other. They could pass for twins, except for the fact that Sammie is almost 5 and Disney is 2½ – so twins years apart, you might say. Don’t believe me? Nothing like photographic evidence…
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Entertainment Weekly has published a list of no less than 17 movies that are to hit multiplexes beginning this weekend. There are some that look like must sees, some that can wait for DVD viewing, and others… you get the point. Opening Friday is the apparently long-awaited film based on a graphic novel from the
Yes, it’s that time of year again. The ISATs. Illinois’s standardized test given to all kids to rate the schools (why?) and to see if they stand up to the rules of No Child Left Behind. If not, then they have to know what to fix, so I suppose that’s a good enough reason for
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The following words of wisdom came to me in an email forward. However, I have to disagree with some of it since I was born near the end of the window and I did have some of the things growing up that the email says I would not have had. So, I put my personal
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