Hello  YD sails at the yacht club, she has been sailing for about 3 years now. They offer classes every summer and she loves it!

So I'm walking down the street to my car after work, and my purse strap broke and my purse fell right off my arm and rolled into someone's driveway! A man in a yellow car had to wait in the road with his signal on while I picked all of my stuff up. It was soo embarrassing, sadly this happens to me about once a year! I always overstuff, you think I'd learn after going through how many purses, but no. The good news is OD bought me a new purse at Old Navy for a gift recently so all I have to do is clean out and switch my old purse over, but I haven't gotten around to it yet, so this morning I had to go to Wal-mart and buy tassles (THe director wants Rocky's weights to be hot pink with tassles) and I had on a black Lion King T-shirt (The musical, not the cartoon) Brown cargo pants, my hair up in a very messy bun and a giant purse shoved under my arm with the strap trailing behind me, I caught a glimpse of myself in the shop window and jumped, I literally scared myself with my own reflection!

Oh yeah last night L took us all out to the movies to see Prince Caspian. It was great and soo scary, OD and I were holding onto eachother during the battle scenes. I do not remember that part about the white witch though so I am planning on re-reading the book to remind myself what really happened. After she took us out to dinner at Big City Diner and we had a lot of fun until YD started talking on her cell phone (No phone calls during dinner is our rule) and then got sassy when we told her to get off the phone.

So you ready for the Magic Bean story.... Ex Husband calls and says he can't make a child support payment this month (so what's new?) but he and his girl friend just went shopping at Costco and picked up a box of top ramen noodles for the kids to eat.  I was like "You're an A**" ( I didn't really say that, I just thought it.) OD, however  was very gracious and said Thank you and went to his car to get the box and YD comes out of her room and says "Hey what's going on ,why is Dad here?" I just couldn't resist, I said "Your Father is outside with some Magic Beans honey, why don't you go say hi." So she went outside, but when they got outside thier father wasn't even there, his best friend (who is very creepy and can't stand me) is waiting with the box of noodles and I heard him say "You girls call me if you ever need anything." It was sooo creepy. I talked to the girls and they will not be calling him for anything, EVER. OD still being gracious said "At least he tried Mommy" I'm trying a lot harder to be nice and not say what I really think in front of the girls BELIEVE me.

Hello  I feel much better than last time I wrote to you. The poor baby has been identified and his sad history of neglect has been in all the newspapers, everyone feels so sad for him, but as usually happens time starts a healing process. Our show is continuing to good reviews and appreciative audiences. Tomorrow we start on the next one even though this one won't end for two more weeks. We had shows all weekend, so Friday night I took OD to work with me and YD went to a sleepover at her good friend C's house, their other friend Princess Cherry spent the night also, C's very brave mother has 3 daughters and she let them each have 2 friends sleep over so it was 9 girls total. I called her to ask if she wanted me to buy eggs for breakfast and drop them off at her house on Friday night, but she said she had plenty of food. When I picked up YD and Princess Cherry, she laughed and told me she used 18 eggs and made lots of sausage and 11 grilled cheese sandwiches for breakfast. I said "See I should have brought you eggs!" We took Princess Cherry home with us and she ended up staying all night. Our friend J came over to bake brownies with OD on Saturday night (Back Story: On Friday night J came to see the show at the theatre and asked me for a ride home after the performance, L showed up at the theatre right about then, she had been at dinner with her parents and for some reason they dropped her off at the theatre and her car was still at their house and one of the crew members and I had already agreed on my giving her a ride home, so the 4 of us and OD piled into my car and started off. OD asked J if they could make brownies the next day, Saturday and he agreed so we decided to stop at Safeway and get brownie mix. I guess I was punchy from being tired and emotional all day, so while we were shopping OD and J were dancing and singing along with the muzac on the speakers and joking with each other and I kept laughing at them until my sides literally ached. In the car OD said, "That's the most fun I have ever had in my life." and I was teasing her saying "Come on, shopping with your mom, the most fun you've ever had??" Then L started telling us about the most fun she'd ever had in her life was rolling down a hill, that set me and OD off, we were howling with laughter and tears were streaming from our eyes. Turns out L was rolling down a hill in Ireland after kissing the Blarney Stone, but our original image of her just walking along and suddenly throwing herself down on the ground was hysterical to us.) So back to Saturday night..One of my ushers couldn't make it because she's in the opera that's coming up in February and she was rehearsing, so L offered to help usher since she had the night off from bartending and hadn't seen Doubt yet. OD and J were making brownies so we left YD and Princess Cherry with them and went to the show. It's so short we were back by 10pm. J made Blueberry martinis for he and I and the kids and L had milk. Then we decided to play a game while we ate our brownies, so we played Cranium and it was good fun. That is such a great game, I highly recommend it. We were having so much fun we didn't realize how late it was and suddenly Princess Cherry said, "Hey it's 2am and we have to go to church at 9, can we go to bed now?" I was like "Yikes!" YD made a pile of sleeping bags on the floor and the 2 girls were asleep in minutes. OD and I cleaned up then went to bed ourselves. Monday the girls and L had the day off for MLK day. I had to go to work, but I skipped Curves. J ended up at our house again and L took everyone out to buy new shoes (OD needed dance shoes for her play, Character Shoes which cost $56.00!! cough  cough choke . YD wanted new shoes to wear to homecoming this weekend , she didn't ask for a new outfit, so I guess it could have been worse) When I got off work, I made dinner for all the tired shoppers and then we watched Michael. Today the kids are back at school. It's mismatch day at YD's school. YD wore a green striped jacket with a black and white striped shirt and two different shoes and two different earrings. It's Spirit Week, leading up to Homecoming Weekend. Tomorrow is pajama day. Okay better get to work. Have a nice day .

Hey Sis!  Mom said I vanished off Xanga, so I thought I'd check in and see if I was still here, and here I am . I hope you had a Happy Holiday Season . Ours was wonderful starting with closing night of Plaid. It was so sad to end that long run, but we had to start on our next production, so we ended. After the last show a bunch us stayed for "Strike Party" we took down the set and then had dinner together. Always a good time . That morning the girls and I went to see a play at another theatre. It's a play about kid's in Hawaii and their Christmas memories. That doesn't explain it exactly right, but it was good, touching and funny. I spent the rest of the week starting on our next play and then my boss gave me 4 days off in a row!! It was for the holidays and I had a great time, first L and I went to a party at the Ushers house it was our usual crowd and good fun, then my grandma and uncle and cousin came to town for a visit and that was great, my girls had a blast getting to know their Great Grandma.We went to dinner at a place I've never been, it was Island themed, alot of tikis and palm trees everywhere, we had lau lau, lomi salmon, poi, haupia and poke. Then the next day we walked to the aquarium, on the way we stopped so Grandma could rest and she was telling us stories of when she was a young mother with 4 kids and OD was very impressed with her stories of surviving as a young single mother in the 50's. OD, L and I saw Sweeney Todd on opening night, it was so bloody I was in shock for awhile, I debated long and hard about taking OD with me, but she has seen every musical ever and I would  let her watch it on stage, and the movie was the musical (minus three songs), so I let her come with us, and she loved it, and after I came out of my shock, I loved it too. A bunch of our theatre friends were there too so it was a fun night. One of our friends bought the soundtrack at Borders and we have been listening to it all day. Saturday, I spent cleaning the house to get ready for Christmas, boring but very necessary and I felt so much better when everything was clean. I have no memory of Sunday, but I must have done something!! On Christmas Eve, the girls went to visit their father for the day and I went out with L and her family for a Thai Christmas Dinner. It was a nice place none of us had ever tried. Then the girls came home and we went to Christmas Eve service at church. The girls sang with the choir. It was beautiful. Christmas Day we had so much fun. We played newly given video games, and then watched movies and ate cheese and crackers, then we played a game called Cranium that I gave our family as a Christmas gift. We were laughing so hard. If you haven't tried it Sis, I would recommend it, it involves play doh and charades and word scrambles. After the game we ate a dinner of leftover ham. Not too exciting, but we were all full of cookies and olives anyway. Then we worked a new puzzle (also a family gift from me) and watched another movie until bed. Both girls said they had a great day and OD even said, "I don't mean because of presents Mom, I had just had a really good time hanging out with you guys." I was really touched . All this week since Christmas I have been trying to catch up on house work and paper work and stuff at work before tech week starts for my next show, which is totally different BTW, it's a drama about the Catholic church this time. The props are pretty easy: A whistle, a basketball, a tea set with real sugar in the sugar bowl, a fountain pen, a ball point pen, a couple notebooks, a phone book, handkerchiefs and a transistor radio from the 60's. Oh yeah and a rose bush. I am doing pretty good on them so far (knock on wood) so I think I can take some time off again this weekend for New Years. I have no plans, I'm just going to hang out with L and the kids. Hopefully it will be as nice as last weekend.