Hey there
It's been so long since I updated my page. I feel like I really let something slip 'cause this is a good barometer for me to check in and see how I'm doing and really feeling about stuff. Yeah, it really is just all about me, so that's your cue to cut and run if you want! :D

Pres. Hinckley's passing tossed me for a loop. Things were so tough for me with this doggone move and trying to stay in the groove with Em's school stuff, planning Shauna and Shawn's wedding, struggling to get the costuming for Beauty and Beast off the floor and into the air, and then finding out that my inlaws were coming back...oh golly. It's no wonder that the shingles were quickly followed by a fairly lengthy fight with whooping cough. Omigosh. What a hideous illness. It's not just coughing, it just feels like you're dying. Can't breathe, can't talk, can't sing, can't eat, can't sleep...but that's out of the way now, BATB opened this weekend and everyone is basically clothed, inlaws are only here for another month, it's summer break and this place is starting to feel like home. Oh yeah, and my gorgeous daughter and her fabulous husband are happy and healthy and I find so much joy in them, both as individuals and as a couple.

Masoud and I are at times alright and at times in seperate dimensions. He drifts in and out and here and there, so it's hard to stay together. Oh well.

Emma is great, enjoying her summer and loving the whole performing thing. She is already planning on her audition for next year's show, which is The Music Man. Fun little intense bug that she is. What a crack up.

Meeting some really great people through the show this year, and love reconnecting with the others. Most of them I was able to stay pretty connected to throughout the few months we were away, which is always good for me. When I invest time and energy into people I have a sad time of letting them go. The winter was tough enough, so I was spared this year, for the most part. The leads this year are amazing and super talented, but also super personable and enjoyable just as they are, or as they are to me. We have the genius boy-wonder playing The Beast(Brian Earp), gracious, intelligent and genuine. The beautiful and melodius Belle, Elise Campello( a real firecracker, don't let her dimunitive size fool you!), Logan Benedict as the ego-maniacal Gaston, focused, talented and funny as all get out, Carol Swarbrick, who is our Mrs Potts...in my self I call her "courage". I will miss her intensely when this show is put to bed. Charlene Niemeyer as Babette...can't typecast this beautiful lady at all. She plays the hot tot duster, but in her life she is a pastor's wife and a mother and so kind and gracious. Bob Nydegger as our Maurice, a little more rambunctious this year, but still Bob. Kevin Cobley as Cogsworth...I just love him. He's super fantabulous, and yes, that IS a word. Cheryl Phillips is Wardrobe and while I was worried at first, she is a sweet thing. I have to admit to being scared of people for the most part, especially when I first meet them. Always a puppy, I want to wag and be happy, but that sometimes backfires. Then there is Mo Brady. We've always got a little torch and this year that's Mo. He plays Lumiere. He's funny and sometimes a little sad it seems, but jolly good fun. Lots of young people in this show, bright and lovely people. I am constantly in awe of the talent that they have and their willingness to share it with others. There is little jealousy or envy that is exhibited...I think that the youngest ones have the hardest time, especially this year as there isn't a lot of stretch room for them in this show. Ah well.

This coming school year, jumping subjects now, I am going to be spending time on the PAC for Homelink. That's the Parent Advisory Committee. I really didn't want to do any committee stuff for awhile, it's so much less interesting as actually DOING something, but we love Homelink and all that it has given to our family, and it seems like the appropriate and right thing to do, for me to serve and give back in this way. Em will be in middle school, if I can ever believe that. WOW.

So it's good to be back on, and I'll be posting more often again. I have some great things about the history of this new area where we live and stuff about things I've pursued in the past few months(such as The WASPs in WWII, creative writing again, putting together lesson plans for a middle school aimed class dealing with life at the turn of the 1900's...just 'cause it seemed like fun to do...)

love to all
teri