We are in the thick of marching season. We will be in San Antonio this weekend for BOA SuperRegional and to eat at Tony Roma's, and to see L&R--three of my favorite activities. Then we will be back in San Antonio on Tuesday for the Texas State UIL Marching compeition, and to eat at Tony Roma's--and yes, I did vote early. Don't know if we'll get to see L&R again--that is a lot of band to non-band-parent type people. Then the next weekend we are in Indianapolis for Grand Nationals with David, Cathy, CJ and Jamie. Oh yeah, Jacob will be there, but we won't see him much except when he's on the field--you know how that goes. I do love marching season and will really miss it next year.
David is in the middle of Cinderella rehearsals, the Christmas production at the theater. It runs from the day after Thanksgiving until Dec. 23--a killer schedule during the holidays, but he loves it. I'll post pics from "Belles on their Toes" later--he was hilarious.
Hubby is reprising his role as the admiral in Sound of Music down in CLeburne. He's in the 2nd week of the run, and I'm having a hard time getting down there to see it between marching band and Cinderella. In addition to his prop building and set painting he has taken up costume making. My sewing machine now sits on a table in the infamous green room and he made the priest's robes and vestments completely from scratch and completely by himself. Tina's son ( Tina is co-owner of the theater) told her how much he loved her costumes--that she is just the best costumer ever. His favorite costume of all times was the admiral's costume in Sound of Music--the very admiral's costume that hubby designed and sewed all by himself. :)
And the most exciting, actually scary, thing in my life last week was a bacterial infection on my arm. Tuesday morning I noticed a little skin tag was about to fall off, then two hours later there was this yucky raised spot the size of a dime; two hours later it was the size of a quarter; by the afternoon the skin around it was red and infected, and by 10:00 pm (of course I was at a band competition and couldn't get to the dr.) the red skin looked like a tornado and the tail of the tornado had turned up , heading toward my shoulder. That was the part that really scared me, so I called my doctor and immediately she put me on a very powerful oral antibiotic and antiobiotic salve. Two doctor visits later I am declared healed, but there is still a red spot a little larger than a dime on my arm where the skin has to heal. I had just read an article about the resistant strains of strep, so this really scared me, but all is well.
Except I am really tired, too tired to even play my fourth game of pingpong tonight, so I am going to bed. And besides, when David turns in a complete circle between the time he hits the ball and I return it, I get very depressed. Love to all of you!
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and i already know the results of the band contest!! a good night was had by all!! Dad is so crafty in his costume making. Hope I can make it home to see the plays!! See you soon!!
It was a great band day and we always love seeing you. We did feel a bit awkward when a neighboring band mom leaned over to ask RJ & I the bands were in "full retreat" because we had no idea what that meant. And I'm sure our novice-nature manifest itself in our inability to answer all of the other questions put to us by that friendly group sitting around us but it was fun to watch those first place finishers!
i feel left out. i guess i will not get to see bean bags band show. how sad. perhaps they will win nats and it will be on you tube again. sounds like you are keeping busy there. wish i could come see the plays. drat. dad is quite the sewing man. i think if i could i would get him an extra day during the week so he would have time to do everything. (he sent me an email with complete detail on how many man hours the treasure chest is taking.)
2 weeks from thursday I will finally be picking you up from the airport!! what an exciting month!
Great update! Wish I could be in Indy this weekend to spend time with all of you and watch the band nerd...wish him well from me! I'll look forward to the pictures of David, and the picture I conjure in my mind of Chris at your sewing machine makes me laugh. Glad you caught that infection on you arm when you did, that could have been nasty. Love to you all, have a safe trip.
I wish I could come see those plays and wished I could see the band competition. Good luck in your next game of ping pong. :)
Busy you! I'm glad the infection cleared up, that would freak me out too. I wish we could see all those fun plays and band rehearsals! I'm also impressed with Uncle Chris's sewing abilities, you'll have to post pictures of that! Love you!
MMC- it is no longer the thick of marching season. In fact, marching season is OVER and has been for moer than a month. I know you are out of school. So, in other words, NEW BLOG NEW BLOG!!!
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