but in the words of Mick Jagger, if you try sometimes you just might find, you get what you need...

Girls started Drama Camp this week (like we don't have enough drama in this house as it is!). Both were very excited. It's a three week day camp, new for them, as I felt like Dove needed something more challenging than just the scene work that she's ( Read more... )

Well, I have not journalled much at all this year. I took a break from writing, partly because Facebook is so much easier to use when giving daily updates to family and friends but I thought I post a recap of the year since summer is beginning ( Read more... )

For the first time all year, Dove had NO homework last night (other than study for a grammar test). We were both in shock! Her bookbag was amazingly, unbelievably light AND she found out she was getting an award at the school assembly today. Felt like she won the lottery ( Read more... )

Dove gets to be Mary this year in our parish's Nativity play. I am happy because she is so happy. (Also happy because I had put away her Mary costume from her second grade All Saints pageant, and she can still get into the robes ( Read more... )

I am feeling like the White Rabbit these days, that I am late late late and how will I ever catch up ( Read more... )

Third trailer for HBO's upcoming "Game of Thrones" series released last night, and I am getting to excited I could pee my pants. Next week there is a 15 minute "Making Of..." special that will air next Sunday night, and I'm hoping they will put it online afterwards. Expect the show will air in April, and what a great birthday present that will be ( Read more... )

A few days ago I was starting to feel the pre-holiday stressors creep up on me. House a mess, not shopping done, cards not even bought, and tons of cleaning to do before the kids started pestering me to put the tree up. I got up and could feel the anxiety beginning to descend on me with my giant "To Do" list ( Read more... )

In the midst of all the soccer parent activities, raising two growing girls, the minivans and bakesales and mom jeans, etc., now and then you need a night out ( Read more... )

( Surviving fifth grade )

From now til Thanksgiving is a busy time for us, and I'm trying to juggle activities and decide what we really want to do versus what we can skip. Tomorrow I have plans for a short Mom-Daughter outing with Dove that I hope will be fun for us.

I'm taking her out of school a bit early to go see a performance of the Poe Show at Rep Stage in Columbia ( Read more... )