Photos

Jordan and Sammy off to wait for the bus.


Jamie and the dog made up.


Jamie and Jordan hanging out on the patio.

lolsecretz

It's lolcats meets postsecrets. Too funny.
(Confession--I love postsecrets.com.)
lolsecretz.

Jordan all ready for school

Jamie, you are a very good lunch packer, Jamie

Hey, Jamie? Your lunch was delicious.

Bo, you are a very bad dog, Bo.

I forgot and left my briefcase on the couch this morning (or as Jordan likes to call it, my "man purse") and that meant I had to drive all the way back home from work and get it. Annoying!

Also annoying was the fact that Bo (or "the damn dog" as he shall hereafter be referred to) pulled open my briefcase and fished out the two granola bars that I had thoughtfully stowed away for lunch and ate them. Then he pulled a stick of butter off the counter and ate that too.

I congratulate you on your ability to operate a zipper, Bo. BUT YOU ARE A VERY BAD DOG.

Claudia's latest art project

She had to do a cereal box in realist, surrealist, cubist and abstract styles.

Some Day

Two things Europa crept into my consciousness this week.

One was planted there a couple of years ago, and filed away in the back of my brain the way I do with lots of things I don't need just yet. And certainly, these are going to have to be filed back away for quite a while, but I thought I would share before shoving them back where they belong for now. The second one is brand new, although I'm quite astonished that I'd never heard of it before. Incomplete education? You have no idea.

The first is Les Catacombs. I want the authorized *and* the less-than-authorized tour. Jamie is always up for an adventure and we have the most fun in museums together, so I know we would have a really amazing time. In fact, we were once followed by a guard throughout an entire museum. I think he could sense I sometimes like to touch things. Or. Maybe he saw me actually touch something.

I know.

That's wrong.

The second thing is the Temple de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona. I *love* colored glass. That gorgeous blue Chagall at the Art Institute (which I did *not* touch) in Chicago had me swooning




so the photos of these windows have me breathing fast.



The architecture is unsettling. At first blush, when you look at photos of this church from a distance it's same old, same old, familiar and expected. But then when you look closer, it's all new, even though it's not (very) modern. They've been working on it since the 1860's or so and it's still not finished.

Oh, and speaking of an incomplete education, I just saw this, La Pieta, for the first time recently. I saw a photo and could Not stop looking at it. Look at the fabric.



So I guess we should add Vatican to the travel itinerary. I wonder if I'll be able to stop looking at it? Maybe Jamie could distract me with some Vatican trivia. He once told me they used to whack dead popes in the head with a silver hammer to make sure they were dead. That's a pretty funny/macabre image. Or maybe promises of finding the Popemobile would do it. I wonder if I could touch it?

The weekend

Girlies have been standardized testing all this week, so no homework to speak of and that's been *nice*. Thursday night I had to work late, unexpectedly, so I missed my GNO with the wiccans.

Friday night we decided to make pizza for dinner and that was fun, if not the best tasting. We used the premade dough and it was, of course, kinda not that great (next week I'll probably make whole wheat dough the night before and keep it in the fridge), but on the whole, these pizzas were way healthier than the frozen kind we usually have.






I'm more impressed than usual with the awesome Claudia who has just completed an entire meatless week (no fish, even)!!

Today's just cleaning/cooking/marketing. Claudia wants a gas mask so I took her to an army/navy surplus store this afternoon. They didn't have anything in her price range. I'm going to be baking and cooking three kinds of dried things--chicpeas for hummus, great northern beans for chili and black beans just because--and I'm kind of weirdly excited about it. I think because I'm eliminating all that crap that's added to processed foods. It looks like we're going to be eating a lot more vegetarian with Claudia, because it just makes sense for us to do so. Little girls pretty much not included, though.

Jordan and Sammy looking at book orders

Dining with mosquitos

Love of the game

This youtube footage of a little girl absolutely tearing it up at flag football makes me happy. She's got some moves!

Making our way through the Unitarian culture

Well, I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later. We've been invited to a water healing ceremony with a "traditional African healer and peacemaker".

There's a potluck after party. If we were to go, I guess we should take something besides yams.

The Weekend

OMG, we're exhausted, Jamie and I. But in a good way.

Friday night Jordan and Sammy went to a movie/snack thing at their school.

Saturday Jamie worked most of the day and the girls and I went to work a garage sale to benefit the Pride bands. It was in the Lockerbie neighborhood, which I adore in all its historic and cobblestoney goodness. The garage sale was fun because it was a chance to talk to people I'm in band with and they are super interesting. There was a ferret there and I now think we *need* a ferret.






The girls agree.

Saturday night was the sleepover. It went really well. But the dog, seriously, needs to find a nice farm to live on.

Sunday we did church and then Jamie went home to practice for rehearsal and the girls and I stayed to help clean and paint the interior of the building the 7th and 8th graders use for religious education classes. Sunday night Jamie went to rehearsal and Claudia and I watched the Emmy's.

Healthy Eating du Jour

Today's cast of characters:

cheese pizza
chicken nuggets
grapes
mac and cheese
dill pickles
potato chips
tortilla chips (not pictured)



For dessert--brownies with ice cream, whipped cream, cherries and chocolate sauce.

(The little girls are having a sleepover. There are five 9-year-olds here right now. Wheeee!!!)

It's almost 11 p.m.

And the children are *still* not nestled all snug in their beds.

Sammy and Jordan got to go to a movie at their school tonight and we didn't get them home until around 9:15. Then after this, that and the other thing--including pastry eating and lax parenting, they're still up--Sammy's ankles are itching so she's putting on anti-itch cream and bandaids, Jordan's watching the "last three minutes" of some tween-ish disaster on Disney, Claudia's getting ready to watch live bands play live music on MTV, I'm doing dishes (not really, I'm actually blogging, but I am doing laundry), Bo just peed on the carpet (Claudia mentioned tonight she wants to put a skirt on him, just under his tail to cover up his unsightly butthole region), and Jamie's getting ready to clean the carpet. Again.

Oh, and Woo F-ing Hoo to Jason who turned in his thesis to the powers that be today!

On Mortification

Beverly posts today about the challenges of technology and about two minutes after reading her post, I did something so mortifyingly, stupidly technology-challenged, I was in tears.

And worse, this isn't the first time it's happened.

A couple of years ago I received an email from someone in my Democrat group in Houston that was about a rally they were having that sounded like it involved an annoying level of hippie crap (sorry, Beverly). It made me feel very irritated, so I fired off an email to Jamie complaining about it, possibly including the phrase "damn dirty hippies". The only problem was, I actually hit "reply" instead of "forward" so I had to end up apologizing to the dirty hippies and I Felt Bad.

So today I get an email from the SCHOOL, Claudia's school, about the parent meeting for the stupid abstinence-based sex-ed classes they have, which I feel pressured for various reasons to put my kid in (well, so far, anyway--maybe not this year), even though I'm against those classes for about 10 different reasons, and so I vented. To Jamie. With Profanity. Except that, you see where this is going, I hit reply instead of forward.

OMG!!!!

They've accepted my profuse apology, but I'm still cringing.

On Modesty

Okay, in the category of seriously unimportant news...

Remember the Hooters waitress who got pulled off a SWest flight a few months ago because of customer complaints that she was dressed inappropriately? (She was allowed back on the flight after making an adjustment to her skirt.) She appeared with Matt Lauer on the Today show the other day to talk about how dreadfully humiliating and unfair the whole experience was. It goes without saying, a lawsuit may be in the offing. To demonstrate how totally NOT inappropriate the outfit in question was, she stood up in the very same outfit on national TV.

Then, in the process of sitting back down, she inadvertantly flashed the studio audience, the network viewing audience, the international viewing audience (most of whom already think we're a nation composed entirely of panty flashing Hooters girls), and now via the internet, every man, woman, and child who will ever live.

She did not, at least, flash her mother, who was sitting beside her for moral support. And she did not flash Matt Lauer, who continued the interview as if nothing humorous or ironic had just happened. She did flash the baby Jesus up in heaven.

Are you happy, lady? You flashed the baby Jesus up in heaven.

Maybe a lawsuit is ill-advised?

Link:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/20638479/

Wiccans Night Out!

I got another update to the girl's night out (oh, how I hate that term) that I'm going to next week. It's now been decided that we're kicking off the evening with an Equinox ceremony (and then going out somewhere.)There will be wiccans.

So, what does one wear to an Equinox service?

And also, I don't know from wiccans, but if it turns out to be anything like the liturgical dance ceremony we had, I will need to have a mental Bad Place to go to, already visited and at the ready...

Notes to Self

How much do I love writer/poet Kyran Pittman's blog, Notes to Self?

Good lord, like a lot, lot.

Her post, Cat's Cradle had me in tears, and it certainly wasn't the only one that did. (Why you gotta make me cry, Kyran Pittman?!?)

An excerpt:

Children turn time into a game with string. When I was eight years old, fall through spring took an eon, summer was an era, and childhood was an eternity. Now I realize that it all passed in a blink of my parents' eyes. The structure of our life together as a family —so elaborate, so permanent-seeming — collapsed between their hands when that time was done.

She's funny and eloquent and thought provoking. You should check her out.

What's for dinner!?!

Why, oh, WHY am I posting what we're having for dinner every night in the right sidebar of the blog? Because a) we're trying to get healthy and this keeps me honest/inspired and b) I love hearing what other people are having for dinner. (Yes! You should share!)

We've been meaning to do this for ages (get healthy, I mean), but Melissa's recent blog post at Decapitating Shadows about high fructose corn syrup kicked us in to high gear. And it's going really well!

We've been making from scratch a lot more and instead of eating Tyson chicken nuggets, the girls have been eating, quite willingly, oven baked chicken breasts with a crust of wheat germ and spices. For afterschool snacks, they can choose one thing out of each of three bins we keep stocked in the fridge--one has grain stuff, like granola bars or whole grain cereal, one has protein stuff, like yogurt, cheese or peanutbutter and carrots and one has fruits and vegetables. It's all packaged pretty small, but they get a nice well-rounded snack to tide them until dinner.

So now I'm off to make whole wheat sweetpotato bread and homemade applesauce for snacks tomorrow.

Oh, P.S. Claudia's announced she's a vegetarian now. Ack!!! But apparently she has principles, so what are you gonna do?

Claudia's art project

This is an art class project Claudia turned in this week. The assignment was a three-point perspective of buildings. She's so awesome.

Colts Game

Thursday night we had pizza and brownies and watched the Colts game. I think I mentioned we're Colts fans, now, except when they're playing the Texans or the Cowboys. I did have a small-ish crying jag during this game, after the girls were in bed, because New Orleans=South=HOME and this fling with an exotic midwestern boy has me lying in my now-midwestern bed--in other words, it pinged my homesickness a bit. But that was short lived, the look on Jamie's face was pretty funny, and the game was total fun.

The Weekend

Happy Birthday to Grandma Knight on Sunday! Jamie's Grandma, and now my grandmother, too, is a truly lovely and interesting person who I feel so priviledged to have in my family. She is just really such a neat lady! Many happy returns, Grandma!

It's an Adam from Northern Exposure weekend when it comes to food around here. "I want what *I* cook!", Adam once said. Well, the mexican food restaurants in Indy can kiss my ass because we made awesome, awesome enchiladas last night. Oh, thank GOD, I was about to die. The sauce was delicious and completely simple to make. And salsa. There were also homemade cinnamon rolls with cream cheese icing for breakfast Sunday morning and greek potatoes with dinner Sunday night. Jamie's taken to calling me a potato savant, which I would actually agree with, but hey.........wait just a minute!!! No, that's autistic-savant. So, I'm good! (and so are the potatoes).

Sometimes life is just like Saturday Night Live, it seems. There was a Dakota Fanning Show sketch on SNL recently where Amy Poehler, playing Dakota, was talking to the production assistant and calling her Catherine, and finally, after taking a lot of orders from Dakota, Catherine says chirpily, "remember! you can call me mom!". This weekend Claudia's been calling me Susanne. I don't like it!

The little girls were thrilled that The Sound of Music was being shown on Saturday night and equally importantly, they got to stay up and watch the entire thing. I've promised Sammy I'll burn her a cd with all the best TSOM tunes on it.

Claudia's been wondering what it's like to stay up all night so she talked Jamie into staying up with her last night. They had tons of junk food, watched tv and youtube until 6am!

Lookit what I'm making for one of our walls!

Musical Few Days

Jazz Band Concert

Thursday night we went to a jazz concert in the park. It's the band Jamie's joined but he joined too late to participate that night. They were awesome and we had a really great time.





Bedtime Theatah

Last night we were privileged to have original music performed for us in our very own living room!

Jamie and I were relegated to the love seat while Claudia was seated in the VIP section with the sock monkeys and blankey. But still, we had nice seats.



Sammy and Jordan performed songs and dramatic readings about a squashed fly. Then there was a question and answer period followed by them asking us to rate the show and the ratings were recorded in a book.

Homework!

Here's Jamie helping Sammy with her homework.

I have a dream......

One cool thing about Jamie is he's an optimist. I am, too, but sometimes I decide things aren't possible without thinking them through and that's bad because you know what? Sometimes things that seem impossible or unlikely are actually possible if you break it down and examine it instead of dismissing it out of hand. This, I'm learning from him.

Last night Jamie and I were talking about how the time with the kids still living here, before they go off to college, is seeming really finite. And of course, it always *has* been, but we're feeling it more now than ever. I told him one thing I've been dreaming of doing for several years now, and something I want to do before the kids hit 18, is drive from the east coast to the west coast. I want to give them, and I want it for myself, too, a feel for how big the continent is. I was telling him all the reasons I thought it wasn't doable and how sad I was about it and by the time the conversation was over, we had talked it out and I realized it is actually very doable. Yay! So in a few years, when we have a larger, sturdier car and a lot of our debt paid down, we're planning on doing it. We figure we can do it in 8 days and camp in some places and stay in hotels in others. It's not going to be a luxury experience, but that's ok, because that's not what we're looking for anyway.

Sick me home with sick Jordan

It's sick day at our house! Wheee! So Jordan's in pj's watching Foster's House for Imaginary Friends and I'm hanging out and doing work from home. Finding a military honor guard is much harder than one would think, I'm finding.

I've been blog reading this morning and I've run across some things that I *love*!

Look at this adorable bag! Want! But, it's a diaper bag so now I'm going to have to have another baby.



I love this necklace. Jamie does, too.



We need this at our house. All of it. Probably too bad for us! Maybe we can do the frame grouping, though.

Kid Stuff

It's been a social whirlwind around here all of a sudden, and who knows why?

Sammy has a new friend who lives right here in our apartment complex and there have been phone calls, I've met the parents, they've all been to each others' places and this afternoon there was a swimming playdate. Jordan's been invited to see High School Musical on Ice and have a sleepover in December with one friend and she spent all day Saturday at a playdate with another. And Claudia spent the afternoon hanging out with three friends at one of her friends' houses on Sunday after church.

Sam likes her new school quite a lot and she recently tried peel and eat shrimp and loved it! Also, she made an excellent coctail sauce to go with it (we're teaching the girlies to cook because girls need to know how to cook!), but it was too spicey for children.

Jordan likes her new teacher and new class. We're excited about how her teacher is focusing on writing and how it's being taught. She's super excited about the fact that she's joined the dance club and I'm especially super excited that it's in the morning, which is a good thing for working parents.

Interestingly, Sam and Jordan are playing together on the playground pretty much every day, along with other kids, too. It's nice that they get to see each other every day.

Claudia's liking school a lot, I think, even though she claims the contrary when asked directly. She has funny stuff to tell us every day. Her social studies teacher is having them play this really cool game to learn all sorts of history/geography/sciencey sorts of things. Her English teacher seems to be a complete dolt, and also they're reading Steinbeck (God, I so hate Steinbeck. Why do they do that?!? and how shocked was she tonight when she read that the baby had it's head blown away at the end?!?)but we'll just have to deprogram her every night when she gets home. I'm trying to get her to join the academic team, which I think she would love if she would just give it a chance and a new lacrosse team they're forming for the 5th-8th graders. She took her first band test today and I got to practice her piece with her last night and that was pretty fun.

I've hardly taken any photos lately, but here are a few.

Jamie and Jordan completely engrossed in some kind of super hero movie. It looks like it's turned them into zombies.



Jamie teaching Claudia how to play guitar.



Jamie at the highschool football game we took Claudia to on Saturday. Claudia was off purchasing her mommy some nachos.

Jane Kearney Photography

Jamie and I "know" Janey from online and both love her work. Especially the collages. And the photography. And the collages!

They're really amazing. At some point we'll ask her to do one of each of the girls.






Anyway, you should check out more of her work at her new website.

GNO: OMG! WTF?!?

OMG.

I've been invited out for a "girl's night out"/going away party for someone i like really a lot. However, after many ideas were tossed around about how to spend the evening, the potential plans have now landed on watching a movie at someone's house and "foot soaks".

I'm sorry, but WTF?!?

Can't we just go out to dinner?!?

I've been a girl for quite a long time and actually kind of a girly girl at that (don't throw that baseball at me, por favor), but I have never been a party to a gathering that involved foot soaking. This is freaking me out! Will there be pillow fights, too?

Iliad and Odyssey review

Every once in a while I run across a "review" of Jamie's Iliad and Odyssey on the internet, and I just ran across this one from some guy's blog in 2005 and thought it was very nice:

Kevin turned me on to a site, which I'd like to introduce to the lot of you. This guy Jamie Rieger has a site that I might not have thought twice about, but there's something really amazing there. He decided to read Homer's epic poems The Iliad and The Oddysey. Just for shits and giggles. When he discovered how daunting the task would be, he decided to take comedic notes as he read, and he indexed those notes for the Iliad here and the Oddysey here. I strongly encourage you to stop by and give him a read. You might want to empty your bladder first, though. Start with the backstory to the Iliad, which had me in tears.

Now. Here's the question. Who reads The Iliad for funsies? I seriously have to give this guy mad props for undertaking the Sisyphean task of not only reading it, but taking notes the whole time, then taking the time to catalog those notes for our pleasure. And then to make it all be funny?

A Mixed-Bag Roller Coaster of a Week

First of all, Beverly and Walter are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. Wow! Beverly posted a really cool, inspirational post about it on her blog. Despite the fact that Jamie and I have both been divorced before, we deeply believe in marriage and with all of our blended family/divorce/etcetera wackiness, it's really nice to have Jamie's parents and my parents (who are approaching their 44th wedding anniversary) as awesome examples for our kids of marriages that work and last.

And--not secondly, because this is also just way too cool, Jason landed an awesome job in Chicago and he starts in September. Way to get a PhD in physics and get an awesome job in Chicago while also running marathons, Jason! WOOO!!!

Third thing: Jamie joined a jazz band this week! So exciting! It's the same group of people I'm playing with, but they have a separate jazz band. He had his first rehearsal on Tuesday and their first concert is on the 30th. The thing about Jamie is, he's really good. He has talent. And it's going to be really interesting to see where he goes with this because playing with other people, especially other people who are really good, like this group of people, is a great experience for so many reasons.

Good things are happening at my job in that it's morphing into a position that affords me a lot more opportunities to be creative and also this week I got permission to start a program to assist people seeking a certain type of assistance (sorry, not comfortable being less vague when discussing my job) and I'm really excited about it. This is something I'm somewhat passionate about in my personal life, but fitting it in with everything else has been a problem in the last several years, so you can imagine how I feel to be able to do this at work.

And.....school started, we had various daughters having sobbing melt-downs around 11pm every single night this week (oh, yes, that IS way after bedtime), and Jamie and I were up until at least 2am every night dealing with stuff and filing out all those fucking forms. Oh, and one night, Jamie was at Kroger after midnight buying construction paper we didn't know was needed, which is a long story but let's just say at this point, we're kind of loathing Claudia's 7th grade advanced english moron of a teacher. But by Friday afternoon, progress was made, settling in was happening, almost all the school supplies had been located and purchased and at this point, I feel that we're poised in a position to make this a really exceptional year for all three. I can see it, it's right there! So rough start (and actually, seems like every year's a rough couple of days at the beginning), but I think this year is going to be awesome.

First Day of School!

Such a great week!

We've had such a great week. We're so happy to have all the girlies home!

Claudia's all registered for school and that went really well. It's nice to be settled in to a school already. She doesn't have PE this year because she's taking Spanish and she's over the moon about that. As much as I hated PE when I was in school, and oh, did I, I can't help but be happy for her, too. Sorry, miserable PE experiences aren't inherently character building--mostly they just suck. I signed us up to volunteer with the PTA again this year, but we went with organizing the school carnival because they meet once a month, so it's a good opportunity to meet other parents. Here's hoping they're not all a bunch of bores.

Jason and Leah spent Wednesday and Thursday nights with us. We love having them here. I've probably said this before, but they're the kind of people you would choose to hang out with even if they weren't your family. They worked a physics booth at the State Fair on Thursday and they brought the kids back some cool sciencey stuff.

Last night and tonight my band played outdoors at Connor Prairie before the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra went on. We did a New Orleans street band thing and it was pretty fun. We got comp tickets for family, so last night Jamie and the girls met me there. I'm not a big fan of symphony commercialism, although I can see why it's necessary, but the atmosphere at these things can be very I-seem-to-be-at-a-minor-league-baseball-game, but that aside, wow. I mean, first of all, the ISO is awesome. It wasn't too hot and we sat under trees on the grass on blankets and when it got dark the stage was lit really beautifully. There were stars and a nice breeze and it's not every day that you can hear that class of music with a child on your lap and a child with her head resting on your shoulder with fireflies flying around. The theme was Mardi Gras (in August?) and they played Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Irving Berlin, and a bunch of other stuff in that vein. Byron Stripling was the guest musician and he was amazing and funny, too. They did an Armstrong melody that started off with the trumpet riff from the beginning of West End Blues. Squeee!!!!




Jamie took Claudia and Jordan (Sam's at her mom's) to Ft. Wayne today because Andy's there visiting this weekend.

Last night while we were at Connor Prairie, a cicada fell on Claudia's head (lucky!) so of course, she played with it the entire time and then brought it home and left it in an organizer that wasn't completely closed next to her bed. She figured it would be there the next morning because it's pretty big, as far as bugs go, and no wings. Well, it moulted in the night and after they molt, they have wings so where the bug had been there was only a creepy shell left behind. Gah!! But happy ending/sad ending, she found it in her room, took it to Ft. Wayne with her where it made its final escape while they were having lunch in the back yard.

News

I kind of like Google News

Up until now, CNN has been my go-to news source, just out of sheer laziness. But I'm getting completely sick of them. They have ridiculous headlines--"Only the Lord knows if the miners are alive!" (I don't enjoy the turn-of-the-last-century sensationalistic flavor of that, nor do I like the reference to the LORD in a supposedly secular news source) and just a lot of fluff crap besides. And almost every story has to have a quote by someone talking about The Lord. Guess what? That's not news! THE LORD IS NOT NEWS!

I have yet to read about the assault rifles in a CNN headline (maybe because the pre-adolescents there think guns are oooky), but I do know that someone smuggled a monkey on a plane in his ponytail and a girl killed her father in a filthy apartment and this is a TV headline (note the exclaimation point like it's E! Entertainment, not CNN):

Spice Girl Melanie Brown -- in a paternity battle with Eddie Murphy! She breaks her silence on what she wants from him... in her first TV interview. Tonight, 9 ET.


Squeeeeee!!!!!!! Said the 11-year-old girl who wrote that.

Jamie says he likes the CNN breaking news emails he gets, but other than that, he never goes there. He likes the NY Times, and he said, "the writing for the business/news/health section is very different from the writing in the science/technology section. The science writing is very obviously supposed to be less formal and more breezy and fun. That amuses me. It's like omg you guys, let's talk about quarks!!1!"


I don't like the NY times because I have it in my head (fairly or not) that they're not reputable. I also have it in my head that the Boston Globe is hopelessly left-slanting and all the Fox news peices are written by Rush Limbaugh and not when he's not high.

Wednesday

Well, Claudia's back home safe and sound and she says she had a fabulous two weeks in Memphis and Texas. Thanks to my wonderful Aunt Sandy who she stayed with and palled around with in Memphis and my parents for all the cool things they did with her, including toting her 1000 miles and Rafe and Christine for having her over for a week and doing so many cool things while she was there. Claudia stole Jamie's rubber chicken and took photos of him all along the route to Texas. I'll post those pretty soon--they're very funny. The chicken had some serious adventures!

Jason and Leah are arriving this evening to stay with us for a couple of days. We're so excited! We all love having those two around.

And school is now looming. Looming! First day is next Wednesday and tomorrow is Claudia's registration where she'll get her class schedule, locker assignment, gym clothes, and school photos. Sammy and Jordan have a meet the teacher thing next Monday and then they all have curriculum nights on the 23rd. Wheeee!!!

Friday and Saturday night my band is playing at Connor Prairie before the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra plays and I got tickets for Jamie and the girlies to stay and see them perform (I get to stay because of the band thing). It's supposed to be New Orleans themed so probably fun for the kids.