Sleeping Beauty

Catherine, Elizabeth, and I attended the Moscow Festival Ballet's production of Sleeping Beauty last night. We enjoyed it very much.

I didn't take these pictures, but I want to include them so you can see how lovely it was.

Update

I spent part of this past Saturday converting my blog to this new template. It was relatively painless, even for a non-technological person like me. (I did have some assistance from my dear husband.) Many thanks to Lena at Simply Fabulous Blogger Templates for providing a vast collection of FREE templates to choose from! She also custom designs templates for a fee.

Assistance with my new signature came from Ryan Bumpers. Many thanks to him!

It has been many months since I've blogged, but I want to remedy that. As soon as we finish school for the spring, I plan to update with some old photos as well as begin publishing new information. I am excited to be getting started.

Peter Pan

(BOOK 31 of the 52 week Challenge)




The girls and I just read this book aloud. I had forgotten how rich the language is in this children's classic. The version we read (pictured) was beautifully illustrated. We have the movie (2003 non-animated version) on its way from Netflix.

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

(BOOK 30 of the 52 week Challenge)



Catherine, Elizabeth, and I recently read this together and then topped it off with another viewing of the movie. I never get tired of this story.

Our Town

(BOOK 29 of the 52 week Challenge)



Zachary, Ryan, Catherine, and I just read this play of Thornton Wilder's which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1938. After we finished the book, we watched the excellent Masterpiece Theater production which starred Paul Newman as the Stage Manager. We greatly enjoyed both.

The Metamorphosis

(BOOK 28 of the 52 week Challenge)

Kafka is a master of surrealism in this novella about a man who wakes up one morning and finds he has turned into a cockroach as he slept.

Animal Farm

(BOOK 27 of the 52 week Challenge)

Orwell's allegory of Soviet communism is one of my favorite books. Zachary, Ryan, and I read it together recently as we studied about the Russian Revolution and life in Russia under Lenin and Stalin.