Christmas Spirit

We had a lovely day spent visiting with dear friends, making Christmas cookies to set out for Santa and running errands.
Shayla wanted to honoring Christi by making no bake cookies (Christi's favorite) so we did. (And I cracked up at her choice of words "to honor Christi" as I could just see Christi here on earth joking around bowing down like she was on stage in front of Shayla jokingly saying, "Yes, you may honor me with cookies!" and then cracking up in giggles!)


Christmas Morning, 2000
Great Memories - Mom & Joes, Christmas Celebration

We also thought it'd be a good day to get a jump start on one of her 4-H projects, the drama project she wants to take this year so last night we watched, "A Chorus Line" knowing the assignment for 4H was to: Write a critic’s review of a musical of your choice. (p. 33) Let's just say I read on the back of the DVD we borrowed from the library that it said "PG-13" but I thought, "What? It was a Broadway musical. It's got to be ok." This morning when she said, "Mom, what exactly is a wet dream?" I about fell on the floor, but then I reassured myself that I'd rather tell her than have her learn about it at school. Oh, my, like many things in motherhood, no one prepared me for THAT!

“A Chorus Line”
A Review by Shayla Thomas, age 9 ½

I saw the Broadway musical, A Chorus Line, on a tape. It sounded good on the summary because I take dance lessons and I like to audition for musicals, but it turned out bad. I am giving it thumbs down. At first is was interesting, not good, but interesting.

It started out at an audition. There where tons of people trying out. Then they dismissed everybody but 16. They only need 8 people. When there were 16 people, things got bad. The show did not even tell you the name of the people. You had to figure it out by yourself! The person running the audition was weird. He wanted everyone to tell their personal secrets.

Then things got disturbing. They told of weird things that happened in their childhood. A famous retired dancer came and song a song called Let Me Dance for You. She was supposed to be in love with the director, but it didn’t look like it. They didn’t tell anything about the characters. Don’t waste your time with this show, it is bad! Then at the last 6 minutes of the show they showed a scene in the musical the people tried out for. Remember 8 made it, but 40 danced in the chorus line. The whole story line was messed up!

WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THAT? Well, I've bragged up Christi's bloggers countless times saying how intelligent they are, but this one of Shayla's "games" must have been too difficult. So far, no one has guessed correctly. (Although we have bent over with laughter at some of the guesses, what a hoot!) Shayla thinks we shouldn't reveal the answer until someone actually guesses what it is. Here are a few clues: Shayla thought it looked like a Martian egg, but it's not. It is an object found in nature and many bloggers were correct with their guesses, it was frozen. What do you think now?