Mistaya, Tabitha and their friends write and perform a play based on “Hansel & Gretel.”
At unemployed-father’s request, Mother leads her hungry children into the forest, to abandon them.
The children, hungry and cold, fall asleep on the forest floor.
A nice witch invites the children in for cookies and cake.
The nice witch turns mean and locks poor Hansel in a cage. She tests his finger to see if he’s fat enough to eat yet.
The children escape and are reunited with their guilty parents. All ends happily ever after.
A quaint day out with my girls. Attempted to take out books from the library down town, but alas, my daughters had late fines from 2001. My card? No good either–late fees from 2006. The library is backward! Punishing children for 8 year old late fees? Denying my family literacy for eight years because of late fees? And not to mention I payed them $60, a few years ago to replace two books Tabs had spilt chocolate milk on. AHHH! And of course, the dinosaur of institutions, doesn’t accept credit cards or debit cards to pay off the fines. So what do we do? Let me see…hmm…little Pip has never had a card before, that’s it! And three cheers for us: we managed to escape with all eight of our books proudly borrowed on little Pip’s brand-spanking-new library card–much to the frowns of the library staff.
And good news, The Bread Co. (Our favorite bakery/coffee shop) has finally finished rebuilding after the fire that destroyed it last fall. We finally had tea there this afternoon.
Trouble with Fernando. He bit Pip’s face yesterday. I am cracking down on him. Pip can no longer play with him unsupervised as he treats her like another dog.
Tomorrow a hair appointment for me. I had to cancel my teeth cleaning as I had double booked myself. What looks worse? I thought, My teeth or my hair? My hair won out. Tabs has piano in the late afternoon, will take the other girls out for our constitutional coffee while she plays.
This weekend my final day for the class I am currently taking. Then we are off to visit my parents in Kamloops for the night–we will return Sunday late afternoon.
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