Weekend Recap

I’ll have to borrow Will’s Ipod and check out more books from the library…the selection is greater than the limited CDs they have. I’ll start with The Millionaire Next Door. Anna is saving for a Nano…she figures she’ll have enough in a couple more months. Yesterday in Upstreet she filled out a sheet saying she wanted to live in NYC when she grew up and be a Broadway actress/dancer, living in a NYC rowhouse (and have 2 kids and drive a Mini Cooper). She didn’t want Ceil to see it, so she tore it up. Her beloved American Girl doll/store/franchise is having an open casting call this month to cast a girl in the next TV special, and Anna printed out the script. The casting is in NYC, LA, and Chicago, so I doubt we’ll make it. But maybe we can pursue something smaller, on a local scale. Bryan Coley seems to be developing scripts more than producing local plays.

Ceil heard that all the computers were stolen from the new Buckhead Church the day before the security system was installed. It appeared that “Fergie” video was shot on the roof of Buckhead Church. We arrived early yesterday because Ceil and Will were working in the 4-year old class, and when I entered the East Auditorium the front center section was nearly full…due to all the graduating seniors. The good looking guy who was joint-enrolled at Reinhart had attended Living Science with Will. Lanny used to host Kidstuf and is generally pretty funny, but he doesn’t hold a candle to Jon Williams, who you’d recognize as a zany character from several dramas.

Dave Ramsey was good, but I liked the last two years better. I couldn’t remember the point of everyone singing the Beverly Hillbillies theme. I sent Ceil and Will into the 11 am service for the introduction, and Anna and Matthew got to see the video. Kidstuf was also real funny yesterday, thanks to Jon Williams. I think NP sometimes goes overboard on days they expect lots of visitors, trying to be different from other churches. That’s when they drag out the hip hop.

Yesterday afternoon Ceil shopped for mother’s day presents. I did some laundry and wrote game recaps during the Braves game, and a snake Matthew discovered outside got away before I could kill it. Will cut a neighbor’s yard, we watched Tiger’s last few holes, and then Ceil and I at The Swallow in the Hollow in Roswell. Good BBQ but crowded and loud…they had a couple singing Jimmy Buffet, Bread, American Pie, etc.

Friday while Ceil was at a homeschool conference the kids went to a elementary school track meet, and Will got to talk to Evander Holyfield, who had a son competing. At practice Matthew complained other fielders were cutting in front of him to field a ball, then when he did it on a pop, the distracted shortstop was hit in the head. Then we had small group. Saturday night I took Will over to the Normans, and we rented ‘Facing the Giants,’ made by the big Baptist church down in Albany. Not bad for a film made by locals…several football scenes that didn’t look too fake. You know it wasn’t made by North Point. Mark Richt’s reaction shots during the championship game were priceless, and he is interviewed on the extra features of the DVD. Of course it was interesting to me because one of the main plot lines revolved around the kicker.

I need to do a better job with goals…lately I’ve been blaming baseball on not getting much of anything else done. We’ll be at the park every day this week, through Saturday.