The Death of a Musical

After two months of long, hot rehearsals, many late nights and tons of energy, the play was cancelled. Unfortunately, the person who was directing this play did not have her "ducks in a row" prior to doing this. The positive side of this is that I can be back home in the evenings with the family. Today I have to think "What have I learned from this adventure?" Well, first I found out that I love being in the theater, and I hope to maybe do another play sometime. Second, when you put faith in other things, you can get burned. The only place I can ever put my faith is in the Lord. Honestly, I am sad. Sad that I have made my family be without me, sad that my wonderful husband had to be a "single parent" for nothing.

The Death of Me

Here is what is left of a 14 ounce bag of plain Adventures of Indiana Jones M&M's. For some reason these little buggers have been my addiction for the past few days. I bought them for our first Bunco club night. Yes, I enjoy an occasional M&M, but to be this obsessive! I think it has to due with the colors, they remind me of my favorite season Fall, cool days, cooler nights, fresh apple cider, pumpkins, leaves, Halloween. Or maybe there is some unseen force within, maybe it is some kind of addictive chemical they put in these candies? The more I eat, the more I want, the more I eat. Whatever it is I have to get these out of the house, I do not want to know how many calories I have consumed the past three days. I have totally bagged my Weight Watchers this weekend. Yikes!

Costuming!

All in the fun of "Seuss" I have been working on costumes for the play now. We were all in charge of our own costumes, and being the little Mother that I am, I told my fellow Bird Girls that I would make their costumes. I am also making Gertrude McFuzz's dress, and did the Sour Kangaroo, and made bloomers for my pal Candie's daughter. Now alot of you know that my sewing skills are not that advanced, but will say I have come a long way, thanks to the wisdom of Laura, my mom, and Brian. I love to take on a new challenge, and the more creative I can be the better. But "Oh, the things you get into when you bite off more than you can chew!" ( this is me trying to sing my dilemma with "Oh, the things you can think! from Seussical. LOL!) I set unrealistic goals on myself. For instance, I wanted to get everything done in one week. Of course that does NOT happen and there I am sitting in front of my sewing machine at 2 in the morning, frustrated, bouncing my leg and complaining against every injustice in the world. Not to mention I am jacked up on Diet Pepsi, chocolate, and I have just seam ripped the same seam for the fourth time. Arrgghhh!
But my friend Candie a.k.a. "Mrs. Major" in the play, is keeping me sane. She is my partner in crime. We have been fabric shopping, web surfing ideas, drawing, and sewing. She has been a great help when it comes down to embellishing the costumes. I could not do this without her.

The Garden of Eatin'

Here are "Farmer Lavinia" and "Farmer Liam", but alas, "Farmer Avin" refused to be in the picture! What a stinky boy huh? This a proud moment for them. Today Liv told me that "there are tomatoes out there Mom!" Honestly I would not know. I have been so involved we the musical, and the normal household stuff, I have not been out there. We have had alot of rainy, humid and warm days, so I do not doubt there are tiny treasures in there. Hopefully, we can have enough to store for food storage.

The garden we need to get those tomatoes staked I think...

Brian's Labor...

The order that seemed to never end, 13 swords for a school in
Canada. So worth the time and hours spent on them.

On to the next order! Unfortunately, it is 3 in the morning.

Sigh! One huge sword order finished, but alas there is always one following right behind! I was heading to bed this early morning or (late night) and I saw this in my dining room. Forever boxes, oodles and oodles of swords, and a very tired, hard working husband.