Today is known as Mardi Gras Sunday on the liturgical calendar in this area. It is one of those low attendance Sundays like the Sunday after Easter and Christmas. Most people around here are either at the parades or out of town. I am neither, but I did work on clearing out some more hurricane debris from the yard. (I am so over moving logs, burning debris and clearing broken limbs.)

Tonight son and husband are at Bacchaus. Son really wanted to go because most of the Saints team is riding in the parade. I hope he doesn't catch too much. My house is already overrun with beads, doubloons and various other throws.

We may go into New Orleans for Tuesday's festivities. We haven't had a family Mardi Gras in forever. As tired as I am of clearing out hurricane debris, I would rather use the day to work in the yard. It would be really nice to get to the 2 year anniversary of the storm and have all of the repairs and clean up done.


Otherwise the week has been full of fairly standard stuff.

Son had to do a book report on a biography that he read. He is dyslexic and book reports are painful. It takes all his concentration to finish a book. Then comes the frustration of trying to synthesize what he has read. This time he also had to write a speech in the first person of the subject of the biography. His biography was on the childhood of Albert Einstein. It is painful to watch him want to do so much more than he is able without such extreme effort. To his credit, he does not give up until the end product is what he envisions.



I have been asked to costume another show at our local community theatre. It is another fairy tale. The project could be very interesting if the director is willing to not be all "Disney" with her vision. The only catch is that the show is the first of next season and opens the end of August. It will be another very large musical. Those take a full 8 weeks of work on my part and I am not sure if I want to devote my free time this summer to the project. On the other hand, my creative side is already mentally sketching costumes and pondering colors and fabrics. I love doing fairy tales.

It's not that I don't have any other projects in the offing. There is a bedroom that needs wallcoverings, a bedroom/bedroom ceiling to paint, the kitchen needs a new color and I need to make curtains for three rooms. Oh and the sweater that is half knitted, the continuing ed that needs to be done, and some sewing that is also calling my name.

But, I love costuming fairy tales.