Lora mailed in the withdrawal letter to Serenity's former elementary school yesterday morning. She is now officially attending the Serenity School!
On Thursday evening Serenity and I attended the San Francisco Symphony together. That was her first experience at the symphony and I was quite pleased that she both enjoyed it and was able to act in such a way that everyone who saw her was encouraging and complementary about her being there. She was amazingly quiet and well behaved ;-)
We took BART to the city and had dinner at the California Pizza Kitchen. I had Chicken Chipotle Pizza and a beer while Serenity went with the plain cheese pizza and a Shirley Temple. She got a big pile of extra cherries on her Shirley Temple because of the enthusiastic way she responded to the "Do you like cherries" question. She was chatting with our server, Brittany, and had a suggestion about the way people were seated and how the servers were organized. Serenity ended up talking with the manager about it :-) One thing our Serenity isn't is shy!
There was a Bach set to open up that was very nice, chamber music with a harpsichord featured. Serenity declared that is was "OK" That was followed up with À L’ÎLE DE GORÉE (ON THE ISLAND OF GOREA) by IANNIS XENAKIS. That is a wild late 20th century piece also featuring harpsichord, though it is an amplified harpsichord. The main artist, Elisabeth Chojnacka had wild bright orange hair that looked like it was the result of electrocution. The music was very strange but somehow compelling at the same time, modern classical music at its best actually. I didn't think Serenity was going to like that one, she being a Mozart fan and all, but as it turned out that was her favorite music of the night! The finale was Schubert's "Great Symphony in C major" that I really liked but that Serenity declared was "Too loud". Here is a blog entry from the Civic Center Blog that has some photos of Chojnacka, along with a nice description of the music as well.
I think that was all far more "educational" than having her go to bed early Thursday, get up early Friday and listen to how wonderful Martin Luther King was and how great it is that government does this that and the other thing. ;-P Instead she stayed up late at the symphony and slept in Friday morning.
Fashion news:
The other day Lora made a dress out of a Hawaiian wrap that Mike brought back from his last trip to the islands:
This is the dress Serenity wore to the symphony, she picked it out herself at Burlington Coat factory where I went just to get her a jacket, she saw it and it was on sale, so what the heck ;-) The fact that it came with a matching dress for her doll is what got her I imagine.
More news from Serenity School in the days to come!
On Thursday evening Serenity and I attended the San Francisco Symphony together. That was her first experience at the symphony and I was quite pleased that she both enjoyed it and was able to act in such a way that everyone who saw her was encouraging and complementary about her being there. She was amazingly quiet and well behaved ;-)
We took BART to the city and had dinner at the California Pizza Kitchen. I had Chicken Chipotle Pizza and a beer while Serenity went with the plain cheese pizza and a Shirley Temple. She got a big pile of extra cherries on her Shirley Temple because of the enthusiastic way she responded to the "Do you like cherries" question. She was chatting with our server, Brittany, and had a suggestion about the way people were seated and how the servers were organized. Serenity ended up talking with the manager about it :-) One thing our Serenity isn't is shy!
There was a Bach set to open up that was very nice, chamber music with a harpsichord featured. Serenity declared that is was "OK" That was followed up with À L’ÎLE DE GORÉE (ON THE ISLAND OF GOREA) by IANNIS XENAKIS. That is a wild late 20th century piece also featuring harpsichord, though it is an amplified harpsichord. The main artist, Elisabeth Chojnacka had wild bright orange hair that looked like it was the result of electrocution. The music was very strange but somehow compelling at the same time, modern classical music at its best actually. I didn't think Serenity was going to like that one, she being a Mozart fan and all, but as it turned out that was her favorite music of the night! The finale was Schubert's "Great Symphony in C major" that I really liked but that Serenity declared was "Too loud". Here is a blog entry from the Civic Center Blog that has some photos of Chojnacka, along with a nice description of the music as well.
I think that was all far more "educational" than having her go to bed early Thursday, get up early Friday and listen to how wonderful Martin Luther King was and how great it is that government does this that and the other thing. ;-P Instead she stayed up late at the symphony and slept in Friday morning.
Fashion news:
The other day Lora made a dress out of a Hawaiian wrap that Mike brought back from his last trip to the islands:
This is the dress Serenity wore to the symphony, she picked it out herself at Burlington Coat factory where I went just to get her a jacket, she saw it and it was on sale, so what the heck ;-) The fact that it came with a matching dress for her doll is what got her I imagine.
More news from Serenity School in the days to come!
Hey, congrats on the homeschooling thing. The area schools are getting worse and worse, I hear of parents doing this more each month.
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For a good blood-pressure raising, check out Carol Rutz's blog, with the Fox grahpic she isolated. I almost started curse laying again. ;-)
She is way beyond cool :-)
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