While I was working I was able to go to the school and help in Cortlynn's classes: usually at least 1 hour a week, sometimes even longer. It was nice to get to know the kids and the teachers. Now that I'm not working outside of the home and I don't take the kids to daycare, helping at the school isn't really an option. So-I decided to volunteer with the PTA. I signed up to be the Perfect Attendance Chairman. This has actually been quite a bit of work---writing out certificates to 200+students takes a lot of time. There is also a bulletin board I post the names on, but it just can't be a boring board. I have to come up with something "catchy". So far I've only done the attendance for the first 6 weeks, but the next 6 weeks ends this week. What to do? What to do???
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| Perfect Attendance Bulletin Board |
Kyra loves to dress up in Tristan's masks and capes. She found a spider man mask/cape and walked around the house all night.
Two weeks ago I tracked Devin down at the store and made him get his work schedule so I could see whether or not I could go to the Breaking Dawn 2 premier. He worked an early-so I ran home and purchased 2 tickets for the 10pm showing on opening night. I didn't tell Cortlynn about it because I wanted to surprise her. For the entire time I kept quiet and had her thinking she wouldn't see it for weeks. She was so depressed. The evening of the premier I picked her up from dance and told her to change clothes in the car. It didn't take her very long to figure out what we were doing. We got to the theatre a little after 8pm and of course the parking lot was full. We had to park in the mall parking lot and walk. The line was very long and it was so cold outside. I came prepared with blankets, gloves, and scarves. The wait wasn't that bad. They opened up 4 theatres and let the 10pm people in early. Overall we waited in line for maybe 30 minutes. The theatre we chose was packed, but we were able to find seats in the middle by the aisle (right now I really need to be able to get out easily and quickly). The news crew was in our theatre filming for that nights news and Cortlynn was so excited to possibly be om TV. Of course we had to have popcorn and waiting in the refreshment line took longer than getting into the movie. Since I'm having cravings for pickles-I bought a HUGE pickle and Cortlynn was so embarrassed when I came back with it. ;-)
The movie was really good. I didn't know what to expect but hoped it was fairly close to the book. Cortlynn had been upset for a week because she had heard it had an R rating for all the be-headings and they had to edit it a little bit to get it down to PG13. She didn't understand where all the violence was coming from because it wasn't in the book. (I had an idea though) That poor girl was on the edge of her seat. She gasped, yelled, teared up, kept saying NO, NO, NO----I honestly thought she was going to be sick. I am not a people person and I don't handle crowds well at all; but experiencing the atmosphere at a movie that so many are passionate about is really something everyone should experience. There was yelling, cheering, crying, gasping, and every other emotion a person can have. You would think the only people there would be women and girls and that wasn't the case. There were so many men there---even high school aged guys. I told Devin this and he just rolled his eyes. (I know he would secretly enjoy it)
I'm kinda sad the series is over-but I have the books and the movies when I need my Twilight "fix" and her other book "The Host" is coming out in movie form in March....Cortlynn better start reading since I make her read the books before seeing the movies.
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| Corltynn and me-almost 2 hours before the show begins. |
