Pride!
Home from Pride. Riding with Kathie and the girls was, as usual, awesome, as was hanging out at the booths with them and Glynis and Susan. The Exiles and LLW booths where I worked were fun. The weather was perfect! The motorcycle ride to and from was a little chilly in my skirt and lace stockings, and since I hadn’t had the bike on the freeway in a while I was a little nervous, but all went well. The most surreal part was walking the 2 blocks to my bike through wall-to-wall people hanging out at the Rap stage. It seemed to go on forever! Luckily everyone was friendly. I love Pride!
Other pictures here.
Lasagne
We went to the store and got ingredients, including a stop at Red Brick Pizza to get some vegan cheese, and made two big trays of vegan tofu veggie lasagne. Homemade sauce, spinach, zucchini, crook neck squash, broccoli, and brussel sprouts. Yum! We used the no-boil lasagne noodles. They were fine except the top layer because we didn’t have enough sauce to get it moist enough so it didn’t cook much. But with the melted vegan cheese and the little bit of cooking it made a nice crunchy side. Even after eating a bunch for dinner there are about 10 additional single servings stored in the freezer.
Haley places in the chess tournament
Haley’s core class had an ongoing chess tournament throughout most of the year. It finished yesterday, and Haley took third place. Congratulations!
Visit from Michelle and the girls
Michelle, Ariella, and Miriam joined us for a burrito and taco bar and just hanging out on Friday, June 2. It was great to have yummy food and just hang out, and Haley got a Feldenkreis lesson while the rest of us watched “How It’s Made”.
(Val couldn’t be there because she was attending the memorial for our friend Ken, who passed away last month.)
Taylor Spring Concert
Haley played the drum set with the 6th grade “Bulldog Band”, and helped out on one song with the Concert Band.
Guitar Hero “fail”
On Saturday the kids decided they wanted to get Guitar Hero for the Wii. Since it was their own money they wanted to spend (including Haley’s gift cards), and because I’m always accused of not being spontaneous I decided to go along with their desire to go to Game Stop and get it. We went to Bayhill, where of course the Game Stop was no longer there, messing with our plans to visit Starbuck’s, Jamba Juice, and Mollie Stone’s at the same time. After verifying that the closest Game Stop was indeed at Tanforan (ugh, a mall on Memorial Day weekend!), we headed out. Luckily the girls knew where it was so we parked close by. But it turns out they don’t carry the instruments, just the games, because it’s “just not popular enough”. So we decided we’d have to get it online. Sigh. We did, however, make it back to Bayhill, where we split up and met up again at Mollie Stone’s and got everything else we wanted to get. Whew!
Tale of Two Problems
First Katelyn hurt her elbow in PE (whacked it on a metal ring in the pool while swimming) on Tuesday. Kathie had to take her to the doctor and for xrays (luckily nothing broken), so I had to leave work and get Haley to her drum lesson. So now she can’t move it well enoguh to play her saxophone. On Tuesday night she spent 20 minutes trying to convince me that attending band rehearsal in the morning (the second-to-last rehearsal of the year) would be completley pointless. I tried to explain to her that listening, watching the music, and fingering even without an instrument were all different ways to rehearse music. She was absolutely convinced it isn’t, and she would be bored out of her mind. She is sure I’m cruel and ridiculous for waking her up 75 minutes earlier to attend class. Had a nasty altercation yesterday morning getting her out of bed. Not a great way to start a day.
Then Haley lost her Social Studies book. Couldn’t do homework, so borrowed a book from the teacher the next day to finish it and turn it in a day late. Then the teacher insisted on taking back the borrowed book, so she couldn’t do her homework again last night. We’ve torn apart our houses and can’t find it. Guess she’ll have to pay for it, but meanwhile doesn’t he realize she can’t do her homework without a book? Oh, and the school and public libraries don’t have a copy. Sigh.
Haley and Kathie go to Disneyland
Haley was part of the Taylor Band who performed at Disneyland and the Heritage Festival in Fullerton over the weekend. Kathie went as a chaperone. They left in the early afternoon on Thursday, May 17th, and returned on Sunday, May 20th at about 11pm. It was really hard getting Haley up for school the next day!
Haley’s Field Trip: Home of Peace Cemetery
Haley’s religious school class went on a field trip to the Home of Peace Cemetery in Colma. I accompanied. Rabbi Feder went over some of the rituals we have around death, reinforcing what had been taught as part of the “lifecycle” studies. We took a trip through history, looking at graves in different sections from different points in time. We ended up at the Peninsula Temple Sholom section, where Haley and I both placed stones on Rabbi Raiskin’s headstone.
Mothers’ Day
We went to visit Mom for Mothers’ Day. Just a few hours and a trip to Sizzler, but it was nice to do it.
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