A Christmas Carol

Drama Queen just finished her last day as Fred (Scrooge's nephew) in A Christmas Carol, a Play of Movement and Puppetry. She did an awesome job as Fred, as well as Belinda Cratchitt and the Undertaker. The whole show was done with enormous puppets that the cast was inside, so all the inflection came from movement and voice, as well as lighting and sound design. I hope to post pictures soon. We weren't allowed to take pictures, but a photographer came and took some posed pictures of the kids and their puppets.

I'm proud of Drama Queen and her first role at her performing arts school. She got a big role and did it very well. Tonight she makes up for all the time spent on the play by doing tons of homeworks and working on her two monologues for Juries on Tuesday. The work seems neverending, and she's really looking forward to Christmas break!

Christmas Decorations

I feel very on top of things this year: we have our decorations up and it's only December 1st! The boys and I spent the evening on Monday decorating the tree and putting up the various nativity sets I've collected over the years. So many of our ornaments bring back memories.

Perry managed to get our new angel to stand up straight on top of the tree - no small feat. His final solution involved a wire coat hanger, and it looks beautiful.


Drama Queen got home late from school and play practice, but jumped right in adding garland and lights to the stairs.

Zed most of his time detangling and testing lights. Since he loves anything electrical that was right up his alley.


Now we just need to hang the stockings and hang some more lights. You can never have too many colored lights - at least according to The Artist.


It's not the most beautifully decorated, themed tree in the world, but I think it's just about perfect.