A Thousand Cranes

This is our cry,
This is our prayer,
Peace in the World!

 

"I had just prepared breakfast for my baby boy, I had bent over his basket to pick him up when I felt a tremendous wind blow me across the room.....my baby boy has not followed me here."

 

 

My junior thespian just finished her first play! The story of A Thousand Cranes is a touching one...it never fails to bring tears to my eyes. Saduko is a 12yr old girl, who was two at the time the bomb was dropped in Hiroshima. Now, 10 years later she discovers she has lukemia. This is her story. It's a great book as well. Definitely worth a look.

Bethany was fantastic and we are SO proud that she overcame her fears and kept on auditioning until she finally got a part. Now we may regret encouraging her toward that goal as she has definitely been bitten by the Theater bug and can't wait until auditions for the next production are held!

From the shores of California!!

Wow!! The time has gotten away from me!! Recently, my friends convinced me to sign up for facebook...I warn you it is somewhat addicting!! As a result my blog has been seriously neglected...apologies to my small readership!!

My BABY turned 13 on October 13th of this year!! Her greatest wish for many years has been to swim with the dolphins...so we pooled our money (some of her savings and some of the money we would have spent if she had a party) and we loaded the car and headed out to Sea World, San Diego just my daughter and I. We spent the drive chatting and laughing. She spent our first day at Sea World worrying a little that she'd miss her appointed swim time with the dolphins and reveling in the fact that she was an "only child" for the day and got to call all the shots!! She was more than a little nervous about swimming with the dolphins by herself (I opted to not spend the money and get some really great pictures instead!) but she was also very excited. God is SO good...as we waited for her group to be called I overheard a conversation next to me and the voice sounded familiar...I looked over and standing next to us with her daughter was B's fourth grade teacher (her "first" teacher besides me, and someone she utterly adored!) waiting to, you guessed it, swim with the dolphins!! Turns out her daughter was celebrating her birthday as well and they had done the exact same thing as her birthday gift!! B got to be in their group and share the experience with them, and I was able to take pictures for her teacher, something she had been a little concerned about!! Here's a few pictures:

 

 

 

 

We also spent a beautiful sunset on the beach at Belmont Park, and then got dinner and Henna tattoo's!! It was quite the mother/daughter date!! (truth be told, I had as much fun as she did!!)

Happy Birthday, Sweetheart!! I can't believe my baby is a TEENAGER!!!

The Sunset from Belmont Park...

 

The photographer gets artistic....

 

 

 

 

Beth and her teacher.

 

This is a picture of a hole in the ice that Josiah actually started when we were at Sea World two years ago...two years of lemmings putting fingers into the same hole and it's now about 1.5 inches deep. We thought he might think it was cool that it was still there...and he did.

 

Beth thought the fish were really cool. They were part of a Halloween celebration.

 

Hanging out on the beach turned out to be a cold and windy proposition but we gutted it out for about 30 minutes, then we went to a local Greek restaurant and ate icee's and sandwiches served by the hot greek guy who worked there.