With Gusto

Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - Day 61 Living Down Under

Today was the kids' school concert.  They were super cute and they did a great job!!  This was a dance and drama concert and each class had a different decade.  Charlie and Chaney's class had the 1950's and they danced a routine to "Rock Around the Clock."  I wish I could included pictures but videos and photographs were prohibited. (I couldn't believe this. The other parents didn't seem put out by this so I think this might be the norm around here.)  The school concert is a BIG deal.  They had costumes (I paid another mom to make Chaney's 1950's skirt) and they have three performances.  Three! One today at noon, one tonight at 7:00 and one tomorrow night at 7:00.  Each family only gets 4 tickets and you list the preference of which performance you want to go to.  Erich and I took two tickets tonight and two for tomorrow night.  Since we have to take the kids to every performance, I figure we might as well sit through a performance!  I am hoping they have pictures on the website or something.  Their costumes are at school so I will try to take a picture after their last performance, once we get home! 

I didn't fully appreciate the dance and drama program they have at C & C's school until tonight.  I taught intermediate grades for 9 years.  I saw a lot of class performances over the years and when the kids were supposed to dance, they were awkward and moved as if their legs and arms had just been attached earlier that day.  I just figured it was the age of kids and they were just growing into their bodies.   I've changed my mind.  I watched about 400 students tonight from kindy to year 6 (kindergarten to 6th grade) perform dances. They ALL performed with gusto.  The boys and the girls.  It was so neat to see.  What are you going to do with gusto today?

Enrich Schroeder.  Word.

I wanted to get the "footy" shaped crackers for Charlie but I just couldn't choose which of these delicious flavours to pick.  So I left empty handed.  (What is their deal with the meat flavored chips and crackers??)

 

My Random Thoughts and Observations...

• I joined Costco so I could buy American processed cheese.  Don't judge.
• In the last 61 days, I've been to the mall more times then I have been in the last 15 years.  It ain't no lie.  I hate malls.  I have to go to the mall to go to the grocery store, the bank, K-Mart, Target and the liquor store...   I've managed to develop some mad coping skills.
• When they write, and they make their capital G, they don't use the horizontal line. Check it:
  

  
• They love their baked beans down here!  They serve them over toast.  And in sandwiches.  I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried!