This has been a week full of theater for Dan and Margie, and summertime relaxation for John and Lyn (as if they need it).
Monday was the Annual Meeting at LTA, and Margie was reelected as the Governor of Membership for another two years. She was unopposed, so the election results were not exciting, but she claims this is her last year in that position. Time will tell.
On Wednesday, we had tech night for the one-act competition. We got to lug the set (couch, 2 chairs, 2 tables) to the rec center, wait while the sound and lights were ironed out, then lug everything back to our garage that same night.
Margie and the kids went to Pirate's Cove on Thursday. It had been a while since they went swimming, so they enjoyed the cool water.
Saturday night was the performance for "Hero Worship" at the one-act festival. Everything went well, and the judges had mostly kind things to say about the show.
Then on Sunday, we all attended the awards ceremony for the one-act festival. Liz Owens was one of the presenters. (She won Best Director last year for "Solitaire".) "Hero Worship" got only one nomination, but it was a winner! Gary Cramer won the Best Lead Actor award. Congrats Gary!
Our 21 day detox continues, and we are excited to be over the hump--today was Day 11! Lyn and John say that it's not all bad. There are a few things they've found they really like--like raw brownies (dates, walnuts, and cocoa powder), dark chocolate, detox spaghetti (raw shredded zucchini topped with tomato sauce), detox mac & cheese (spelt noodles with raw (unpasteurized) goat cheese, and detox pancakes (made with spelt flour). Lyn and Margie also really like the free form dancing in the morning. Margie used to do that all the time as a kid and had forgotten how fun it is!
Still, we'll be glad when it's over. So far we have not seen any improvement in John's skin. He will also be getting some allergy/intolerance testing done in the next couple of weeks--we're anxious to see what that reveals. For all we know, spelt macaroni and goat cheese might be the worst things to give him!
Well, that's it for now. Margie and the kids spent today planning some fun things for the summer. Stay tuned!
Monday, June 29, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
This Week at The Remmers
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!!!!!!!!!
The beginning part of this last week was filled with Oliver rehearsals and LTA board meetings.
On Tuesday, Lyn's class presented a play called "Flight," which was a musical retelling of the story of Daedalus and Icarus, and was part of their unit on Greek history and mythology:
On Wednesday John had his first grade picnic. Unfortunately, it rained, so they spent most of the day indoors. He has gone to bed already, so he'll have to tell you all about it another time.
Thursday was the last day of school! In the morning, Margie had a meeting with a web designer to begin revamping LTA's website, and then she and the kids spent the rest of the day getting ready for our 21 DAY DETOX. With John continuing to have allergies and skin problems, and Dan and Margie continuing to get plumper by the hour, we decided it was a good time to hit the reset button--so we are undertaking a body overhaul.
We're following the program found in the book, Raw Food Life Force Energy by Natalia Rose. It required the purchase of a power juicer (the one we had was just too small) and LOTS of fresh fruits and vegetables, but so far it's going OK. The lunches and dinners are amazingly tasty. We're still getting used to vegetable juice for breakfast, though!
Friday was the first day of summer break, and we SLEPT IN! Then we spent a good deal of time figuring out how to use the juicer, etc. We also created journals for everyone to keep track of how they're feeling during the 21 days. And Lyn made a countdown chain on the computer all by herself! (Mom was very impressed.)
That night Margie went to the first night of the NVTA One Act Festival. Our play doesn't show until next Saturday, but she wanted to check out the competition!
On Saturday, Margie had rehearsal and then went straight to help a friend in the afternoon. In the evening she went to the second night of the festival. Dan and the kids just spent the day hanging out and not doing much.
And now it's FATHER'S DAY! Dan came to church with us so the kids could sing to him. They were very cute. Then Margie and Lyn went to choir practice. We had a delightful mostly raw dinner and then went for a walk in the neighborhood--the weather was lovely. Margie then gave the boys haircuts (and Lyn bangs), and here we are.
We are looking forward to a fun summer. Hope all is well with you!
The beginning part of this last week was filled with Oliver rehearsals and LTA board meetings.
On Tuesday, Lyn's class presented a play called "Flight," which was a musical retelling of the story of Daedalus and Icarus, and was part of their unit on Greek history and mythology:
On Wednesday John had his first grade picnic. Unfortunately, it rained, so they spent most of the day indoors. He has gone to bed already, so he'll have to tell you all about it another time.
Thursday was the last day of school! In the morning, Margie had a meeting with a web designer to begin revamping LTA's website, and then she and the kids spent the rest of the day getting ready for our 21 DAY DETOX. With John continuing to have allergies and skin problems, and Dan and Margie continuing to get plumper by the hour, we decided it was a good time to hit the reset button--so we are undertaking a body overhaul.
We're following the program found in the book, Raw Food Life Force Energy by Natalia Rose. It required the purchase of a power juicer (the one we had was just too small) and LOTS of fresh fruits and vegetables, but so far it's going OK. The lunches and dinners are amazingly tasty. We're still getting used to vegetable juice for breakfast, though!
Friday was the first day of summer break, and we SLEPT IN! Then we spent a good deal of time figuring out how to use the juicer, etc. We also created journals for everyone to keep track of how they're feeling during the 21 days. And Lyn made a countdown chain on the computer all by herself! (Mom was very impressed.)
That night Margie went to the first night of the NVTA One Act Festival. Our play doesn't show until next Saturday, but she wanted to check out the competition!
On Saturday, Margie had rehearsal and then went straight to help a friend in the afternoon. In the evening she went to the second night of the festival. Dan and the kids just spent the day hanging out and not doing much.
And now it's FATHER'S DAY! Dan came to church with us so the kids could sing to him. They were very cute. Then Margie and Lyn went to choir practice. We had a delightful mostly raw dinner and then went for a walk in the neighborhood--the weather was lovely. Margie then gave the boys haircuts (and Lyn bangs), and here we are.
We are looking forward to a fun summer. Hope all is well with you!
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Two Weeks at the Remmers
Well last week, Margie was gone Sunday evening. Then time got away from us during the week. So here we are--doing TWO weeks worth of news in ONE night!
The first week of June started with more SOLs for Lyn. She spent most of her time, however, working on her science experiment. She wanted to do something related to food, so she chose to do an experiment testing the effect of sugar on yeast.
She made three batches of breadsticks--one with the correct amount of sugar, one with double the amount of sugar, and one with no sugar at all.
Her hypothesis was that the batch with extra sugar would be soft and sugary and that the batch with no sugar would be hard and yucky. She found, to her surprise (and mom's too), that there was actually not much difference between the three batches. The biggest difference was the COLOR of the breadsticks. The ones with the most sugar were the ones that were the most brown. The ones with no sugar were white!
John also had a project due. He had to design a flag based on his family. There were 5 sections, one section for each individual member of the family plus one section to represent the whole family. Each section had three pictures representing things that person likes, or things the whole family likes to do together. There were 15 pictures in all. He was going to have words, but he forgot them.
Margie continues rehearsals for Oliver! Right now she only has to be at a few rehearsals because she is only in a few scenes. Very soon, however, she will be required every night--we open July 10!
In addition to rehearsals, Margie spent last week at the mall and going out to dinner with friends. And on Saturday, she helped host the opening night party for It Runs in the Family at LTA.
Monday was the third grade picnic! Margie helped set up and ran the bingo station (in the shade, thank heavens!), and Lyn had fun at the shoe relay, water balloon toss, parachute, games on the tennis court, tattoos and face painting, drawing with chalk, and having a picnic lunch.
That night, Margie didn't have rehearsal, so Dan took the opportunity to go pick up a bathtub. You see, the next show he is building requires an isolation chamber in which one of the actors is supposed to be submerged in water. Dan figured that the easiest way to accomplish this would be to build the chamber around a bathtub. He drove all the way to Montogmery Country Maryland and got terribly lost. (Too bad Margie doesn't have that iPhone yet!)
Last Friday was a busy day. It started with "Donuts for Dad" in the morning--a breakfast for fathers and kids hosted by the school. Then it was Field Day, which is supposed be all day, outside PE. It had been rescheduled from last week due to the rain, and because it was supposed to rain again, it was a shortened version, with each class only getting about 1 hour of outside fun (6 stations, 10 minutes each).
Still, the kids had fun. Lyn's favorite was the marble relay, where they had to pick marbles out a baby swimming pool filled with soapy, bubbly water with their toes. John's favorite was the sponge relay, where they had to run to a big bucket with their sponge, fill it up with water, and then wring it out in their own team's bucket. When they finished, Mr. Donnolley (one of the PE teachers) dumped the bucket of water on someone! And the whole time Mr. Bills (the other PE teacher) was spraying water at everyone with the hose. It was a lot of good, wet, fun!
Unfortunately, while Margie diligently put sunscreen on her kids, she failed to do the same for herself and got a wicked sunburn!
That night was the Springfield Estates School Picnic. We got take out food from a local restaurant that had set up a tent on the school grounds and watched the 6th grade vs. faculty/parent kick ball game. Then we listened to a local a cappella singing group called Snow Day. It was fun!
BUT it was NOTHING compared to our FUN DAY!
I will now turn the time over to Lyn, who carefully took notes and will now describe to you what we did yesterday:
First we went to the rash doctor to see about John's rashes.
Then, since we were far away from home, we decided to stay there for the day.
We went to the shop to buy groceries and have some lunch.
John and I had sushi and the grownups had sandwiches. The whole family shared two shakes--chocolate protein and vanilla protein.
Then we went out to the bay and walked on the floating docks. Then we found a playground shaped like a boat. We played Captain and the Ghost Spirit.
Then we found a rock beach and sat on the rocks watching the waves. We saw two jet skis. John didn't like it.
We were on an island, and when we tried to leave, the drawbridge was up, so we couldn't. We saw two ships pass through before they lowered the bridge and we could keep going.
Then we drove to another town (mom's note: Annapolis) and walked around looking for a place to eat dinner. We walked a long time until we finally found a restaurant mom and dad agreed on.
After dinner, we went down to the docks and watched the ships. There was also a wedding ship that a bunch of people were going on, but we weren't there long enough for them to leave. But we did see a tour boat heading out.
Then we had ice cream! It was John's last day (the doctor told him that ice cream was bad for his rash), so he got to have a double scoop!
And that's all my notes. Lyn.
Today, we went to church and Margie had rehearsal and here we are. Only four more days left of school. John is excited, he says, "because I'm one of the kids who doesn't like school."
OH! And John lost his two front teeth! (Finally...) And Dan took a really cool picture of a butterfly:
Have a great week!
The first week of June started with more SOLs for Lyn. She spent most of her time, however, working on her science experiment. She wanted to do something related to food, so she chose to do an experiment testing the effect of sugar on yeast.
She made three batches of breadsticks--one with the correct amount of sugar, one with double the amount of sugar, and one with no sugar at all.
Her hypothesis was that the batch with extra sugar would be soft and sugary and that the batch with no sugar would be hard and yucky. She found, to her surprise (and mom's too), that there was actually not much difference between the three batches. The biggest difference was the COLOR of the breadsticks. The ones with the most sugar were the ones that were the most brown. The ones with no sugar were white!
John also had a project due. He had to design a flag based on his family. There were 5 sections, one section for each individual member of the family plus one section to represent the whole family. Each section had three pictures representing things that person likes, or things the whole family likes to do together. There were 15 pictures in all. He was going to have words, but he forgot them.
Margie continues rehearsals for Oliver! Right now she only has to be at a few rehearsals because she is only in a few scenes. Very soon, however, she will be required every night--we open July 10!
In addition to rehearsals, Margie spent last week at the mall and going out to dinner with friends. And on Saturday, she helped host the opening night party for It Runs in the Family at LTA.
Monday was the third grade picnic! Margie helped set up and ran the bingo station (in the shade, thank heavens!), and Lyn had fun at the shoe relay, water balloon toss, parachute, games on the tennis court, tattoos and face painting, drawing with chalk, and having a picnic lunch.
That night, Margie didn't have rehearsal, so Dan took the opportunity to go pick up a bathtub. You see, the next show he is building requires an isolation chamber in which one of the actors is supposed to be submerged in water. Dan figured that the easiest way to accomplish this would be to build the chamber around a bathtub. He drove all the way to Montogmery Country Maryland and got terribly lost. (Too bad Margie doesn't have that iPhone yet!)
Last Friday was a busy day. It started with "Donuts for Dad" in the morning--a breakfast for fathers and kids hosted by the school. Then it was Field Day, which is supposed be all day, outside PE. It had been rescheduled from last week due to the rain, and because it was supposed to rain again, it was a shortened version, with each class only getting about 1 hour of outside fun (6 stations, 10 minutes each).
Still, the kids had fun. Lyn's favorite was the marble relay, where they had to pick marbles out a baby swimming pool filled with soapy, bubbly water with their toes. John's favorite was the sponge relay, where they had to run to a big bucket with their sponge, fill it up with water, and then wring it out in their own team's bucket. When they finished, Mr. Donnolley (one of the PE teachers) dumped the bucket of water on someone! And the whole time Mr. Bills (the other PE teacher) was spraying water at everyone with the hose. It was a lot of good, wet, fun!
Unfortunately, while Margie diligently put sunscreen on her kids, she failed to do the same for herself and got a wicked sunburn!
That night was the Springfield Estates School Picnic. We got take out food from a local restaurant that had set up a tent on the school grounds and watched the 6th grade vs. faculty/parent kick ball game. Then we listened to a local a cappella singing group called Snow Day. It was fun!
BUT it was NOTHING compared to our FUN DAY!
I will now turn the time over to Lyn, who carefully took notes and will now describe to you what we did yesterday:
First we went to the rash doctor to see about John's rashes.
Then, since we were far away from home, we decided to stay there for the day.
We went to the shop to buy groceries and have some lunch.
John and I had sushi and the grownups had sandwiches. The whole family shared two shakes--chocolate protein and vanilla protein.
Then we went out to the bay and walked on the floating docks. Then we found a playground shaped like a boat. We played Captain and the Ghost Spirit.
Then we found a rock beach and sat on the rocks watching the waves. We saw two jet skis. John didn't like it.
We were on an island, and when we tried to leave, the drawbridge was up, so we couldn't. We saw two ships pass through before they lowered the bridge and we could keep going.
Then we drove to another town (mom's note: Annapolis) and walked around looking for a place to eat dinner. We walked a long time until we finally found a restaurant mom and dad agreed on.
After dinner, we went down to the docks and watched the ships. There was also a wedding ship that a bunch of people were going on, but we weren't there long enough for them to leave. But we did see a tour boat heading out.
Then we had ice cream! It was John's last day (the doctor told him that ice cream was bad for his rash), so he got to have a double scoop!
And that's all my notes. Lyn.
Today, we went to church and Margie had rehearsal and here we are. Only four more days left of school. John is excited, he says, "because I'm one of the kids who doesn't like school."
OH! And John lost his two front teeth! (Finally...) And Dan took a really cool picture of a butterfly:
Have a great week!
Monday, June 1, 2009
This Week at The Remmers
Sunday night was pretty busy here--so we're having to do this Monday!
Last Monday was Memorial Day. The kids were home from school and Dan was home from work.
We didn't do anything too exciting, though. Dan mowed the lawn, and Margie worked on the programs for Lyn's ballet recital. In the afternoon, Lyn and Margie headed over to Pirate's Cove, but it was short lived, as there was a thunder storm on its way and they closed the pool. We came home disappointed, but went back later in the afternoon when the sun was shining again.
We came home and had some "not" dogs with sauerkraut salad (an old family tradition from Margie's side).
The next day, Lyn had the dress rehearsal for her recital. We had to do a quick kid switch, as Margie had to quickly get to Oliver rehearsal and Dan was needed at the theatre. Unfortunately, Margie got COMPELTELY lost trying to find her way there--it's time she got that iPhone she's had her eye on! Luckily, Margie was able to reach Dan at the theatre and he helped her find her way.
Wednesday was the big day!!!! Lyn did a lovely job and did her parents proud. She was the first one on the stage and led the whole class in the beginning of the dance. Then, she was the last one off, and spontaneously blew the whole audience a kiss! Everyone loved it.
Unfortunately, we forgot to bring the camera, so we had to take pictures afterwards at home. Aunt Debbie (and our friend Sandi Cumberland) also took some pictures, so hopefully we'll get copies of those soon.
For those of you who missed it, be sure to ask to watch the video the next time you come over! :o)
After the recital we all went out for sushi (Lyn's choice, of course). It was yummy!
On Thursday, Margie had rehearsal--this time she was able to get there just fine.
On Friday, we recuperated!
Saturday morning, the family headed in to the theatre. Margie had a meeting, and Dan was needed to help with the set. Lyn and John had fun playing on the computers in the office.
Afterwards we came home and cleaned up the basement--then Margie and the kids went to Pirate's Cove...again. This was John's first trip of the season, and there was no sign of rain. Yipee! The bad news is that the BUGS were out in full force. The good news is that they didn't bother you if you stayed in the pool. Dan stayed home to work on the racecar.
Early Sunday morning, Dan went to a race. He finished in first place again. But again he didn't have anyone to race against in his class, either. If anyone wants to come use his car, Dan would love the competition!
After choir practice, the family again headed to LTA--this time for Double Tech (two dress rehearsals back to back) for LTA's latest production, It Runs in the Family. We had dinner there, provided by the theatre, and Lyn got to watch the rehearsals. Lyn says she liked the music--since it's not a musical, she must mean the pre-show music.
We got back late and didn't have time to write up our doings--so here you go!
Hope all is well with everyone and that you're looking forward to a fun summer. We sure are!
Last Monday was Memorial Day. The kids were home from school and Dan was home from work.
We didn't do anything too exciting, though. Dan mowed the lawn, and Margie worked on the programs for Lyn's ballet recital. In the afternoon, Lyn and Margie headed over to Pirate's Cove, but it was short lived, as there was a thunder storm on its way and they closed the pool. We came home disappointed, but went back later in the afternoon when the sun was shining again.
We came home and had some "not" dogs with sauerkraut salad (an old family tradition from Margie's side).
The next day, Lyn had the dress rehearsal for her recital. We had to do a quick kid switch, as Margie had to quickly get to Oliver rehearsal and Dan was needed at the theatre. Unfortunately, Margie got COMPELTELY lost trying to find her way there--it's time she got that iPhone she's had her eye on! Luckily, Margie was able to reach Dan at the theatre and he helped her find her way.
Wednesday was the big day!!!! Lyn did a lovely job and did her parents proud. She was the first one on the stage and led the whole class in the beginning of the dance. Then, she was the last one off, and spontaneously blew the whole audience a kiss! Everyone loved it.
Unfortunately, we forgot to bring the camera, so we had to take pictures afterwards at home. Aunt Debbie (and our friend Sandi Cumberland) also took some pictures, so hopefully we'll get copies of those soon.
For those of you who missed it, be sure to ask to watch the video the next time you come over! :o)
After the recital we all went out for sushi (Lyn's choice, of course). It was yummy!
On Thursday, Margie had rehearsal--this time she was able to get there just fine.
On Friday, we recuperated!
Saturday morning, the family headed in to the theatre. Margie had a meeting, and Dan was needed to help with the set. Lyn and John had fun playing on the computers in the office.
Afterwards we came home and cleaned up the basement--then Margie and the kids went to Pirate's Cove...again. This was John's first trip of the season, and there was no sign of rain. Yipee! The bad news is that the BUGS were out in full force. The good news is that they didn't bother you if you stayed in the pool. Dan stayed home to work on the racecar.
Early Sunday morning, Dan went to a race. He finished in first place again. But again he didn't have anyone to race against in his class, either. If anyone wants to come use his car, Dan would love the competition!
After choir practice, the family again headed to LTA--this time for Double Tech (two dress rehearsals back to back) for LTA's latest production, It Runs in the Family. We had dinner there, provided by the theatre, and Lyn got to watch the rehearsals. Lyn says she liked the music--since it's not a musical, she must mean the pre-show music.
We got back late and didn't have time to write up our doings--so here you go!
Hope all is well with everyone and that you're looking forward to a fun summer. We sure are!
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