Busy, busy, BUSY!

Somehow November is almost half over.  I'm not sure how this has happened.  Maybe the fact that I have been really busy is to blame.  Here are some things that have been taking up my time...

Day light savings time.

  Okay, technically this has added time but when you are feeding a baby at 2 AM, early is early.

Being politically involved

Luckily I didn't have to drive up to Providence to vote even though I missed the deadline for registration.  Something about moving a week after giving birth will lead to oversights, like, updating your address on your drivers license.  I managed to update our Netflix and my InStyle subscription but NOT my license.  I know where my priorities lie...

Mina is becoming slightly more mobile.  Watch out!

I've made a couple of trips up to Weber State's Costume Shop, check out their serger area.  It is so pretty and well organized.

The reason for visiting the Weber costume shop?  I'm in the middle of designing a show.  It's a pair of one act Christmas musicals called "Five Carols for Christmas" and "JingleJacks."  Jim Christian is directing his show at CenterPoint Theatre in Centerville and I'm the lucky one who gets to design the costumes. 



Four of the five Carols



The JingleJacks

The show opens a week from next Monday November 26th closes Saturday December 22nd. Tickets are available at the Box Office and on-line (click here.)  The show is double cast so you can see it twice!  

And a funny picture I found while looking for a pencil:

Early 90's at its finest. I was so blonde and my teeth were so tiny.  I can't remember when I started losing my baby teeth, obviously after this picture was taken.

A New Direction

When I started this blog four years ago my life was very different. I was in my last year at Weber State with the possibility of grad school in my future. I had a job I liked with people I loved, it was a pretty good set up. Fast forward to now and I have two degrees (BA and MFA) as well as a wonderful family with my husband and daughter. I could not have imagined a better life and I am grateful.

This blog was about the happenings in my life but now that I have another blog for my family. I've decided that this blog will be for my projects and thoughts on pop culture. Our family blog can be found at jamesandlindsaybeardall.blogspot.com

I don't know if anyone reads this blog any more but I am going to keep writing anyway.

Next up: Halloween costumes.

Old places

James and I went on an adventure this past week.  It involved a house and an awkward conversation with a cute kid and his Mom.

Here is the backstory.  My great grandparents (the Andersons) built a house in Millville on land owned by my great grandpa's father.  The house was finished in time for my great grandma to give birth to my grandma, the only one of their 8 children born in the house.  She was their first daughter after three boys.

I love reading my great grandma's history and her feelings about having a daughter after three boys.  She was so excited and I know she had a special place in her heart for her oldest daughter.

 This is a picture of my grandma, LaRene, with one of her brothers.

My grandparents, shortly before their marriage, 1957?

The house as it looked when my grandma was young.

 And...

The house today! 

 I wasn't sure if it was the same house because it looked so different from the picture.  My grandma told me where the house was located and so James and I paid the owners a call.  When we knocked on the door I was still nervous about the prospect of talking to complete strangers about the history of their house.  A little boy answered the door and when we asked if his parents were home he replied that his Dad was at work and his Mom was in the tub.  We weren't sure about the truth behind these statements so we asked if we could talk to his Mom.  He left and we stayed on the porch.  

A few minutes later he reappeared with his Mom, whose hair was wet, she really was in the tub!  (I felt so bad because she was also pregnant...)  We introduced ourselves and explained our connection to the house.  I showed her some of the pictures of the old house and the family.  She was really nice and she gave us her number so my Grandma could talk to her about the house.   It was kind of scary to talk to a complete stranger about her house but I'm glad we did it!