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So today I looked up some info on My Fair Lady after we finished it.
I discovered that there is a remake in the works...screenplay by Emma Thompson, starring Keira Knightley as Eliza and Daniel Day-Lewis as Henry Higgins.
I just don't think you can improve on the infinitely beautiful and graceful Audrey Hepburn. Even Keira Knightley will have to go a long way to fill those shoes.
It just doesn't seem right...it would be like someone trying to remake Gone With the Wind. Nobody could ever replace Vivien Leigh as Scarlett, or Clark Gable as Rhett, or any of the characters (OK, maybe we could do without Leslie Howard as Ashley).
Why tamper with greatness? |
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...just you wait!
It's lover-ly to get to enjoy classics with your kids and see things for the first time again through their eyes.
I rented a few movies from the library this week. We were all enthralled with David Copperfield. This version starred a very, very young Daniel Radcliffe, of Harry Potter fame. He was just a little bitty thing. I was afraid it would be dry and stodgy, but the kids and I all cried together watching the injustices done poor little Davy, laughed together at Mrs. McCorber and shivered together at the greasy Uriah Heep. It was really, really good.
Tonight we started watching My Fair Lady. What a great movie! One of my favorite characters is Eliza's father. He cracks me up!
I'm glad my kids enjoy these old favorites. Well, it's extremely late and I need to go to bed. With a lil' bit o' bloomin' luck, Trina will sleep all night tonight. :)
What are some of your classics?
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...you spend the next few years counting.
Today marks six months exactly since my Dad died.
A year ago he was in the hospital having the fluid removed from his lungs for testing and the last week of July we received the devestating diagnosis: mesothelioma and six months left to live.
I have not spoken to my Dad in six months and two days. It's tough to think that I'm on the short end of that equation...it's only going to get longer. It's seems unreal that I will ever get to a point and think, "I haven't spoken to Dad in ten years...or twenty years...or thirty years." I'm scared that I will forget his voice.
This week Edwin, Nathan and Seth traveled to Shreveport to clean out my Dad's office. They boxed up the myriad of books he still had there. I've had a hard time with this. It's the end of an era. There is no more going to Grandaddy and Mimi's house. In some ways, it's easy to think of him still being there in Shreveport, but cleaning out his stuff and selling their house symbolizes a certain kind of finality that is just hard to fathom.
Again I say... grief stinks. |
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...that's what this week has been.
Friday morning we were all geared up and headed out the door to take Tessa back to Kamp Kennessee. Just as we were about to leave she said, "Mom, my head hurts. I don't think I can make it after all. I'll just get hot and I'll probably get sick again."
So, we stayed home. However, later that evening she was feeling quite a bit better so we did end up taking her for the concert and to spend the night Friday night. She missed out on almost everything at camp, but she still had a little bit of fun and still made some cool friends. Let's hope next year fares better for her.
Tomorrow she goes to volleyball camp. Tessa has really expressed an interest in volleyball and one of the young ladies at our congregation plays volleyball for her school and helps organize this camp. It's a half-day camp. I hope she enjoys it.
While Tessa was at Kamp Kennessee, I did manage to do some fun things with the boys. We went to the Adventure Science Center in Nashville twice, and caught a movie in the new planetarium. That was cool. We also went to the zoo. And yesterday we went to Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville. I found out this week that my membership at the ASC here in Nashville gets us in free at the Space and Rocket Center. How cool is that?! However, it stormed horribly the whole time we were there so we missed out on most of the stuff they had to see. We're hoping to go back before school starts so Tessa and Edwin can see it too.
Tomorrow someone is coming to paint our den and sunroom. I am so relieved for this to get done. Our house needs painting badly.
I re-read A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century by Oliver Van DeMille. It is very inspiring and I encourage anyone with an interest in their children's education to read it. And then read it again. It's good stuff.
I am now almost finished with a new book...The Call to Brilliance, by Resa Steindel Brown. This has been a very interesting read. I didn't care for the first few chapters very much, because she is extremely biased against public schools. I understand that our government school system has some serious flaws. But I can also tell you there are many home schools out there that are seriously flawed as well. And just because she had a bad experience, doesn't mean that is the case for everyone. Once we got past this, she began to recount her own educational experiences and then her children's experiences. This part I can barely put down, it is so interesting. Her children learned in quite a different way than the norm and this book is mostly the story of how she found their unique learning styles and the things she did to help her children thrive in that style. She definitely thought outside the box. I have gained a new perspective on children's learning styles and looking for my children's special passions and unique brand of brilliance, which every child has inside them, waiting to be discovered. It has made me look at my children in a different light and helped me gain greater appreciation for each child's unique traits.
I have also started A Thomas Jefferson Education Home Companion and just five chapters into it I can tell that this will be one of the best books for educating my family that I will ever own. It has some simply excellent ideas in it for developing the leader within and also just wonderful information that every family would benefit from for ordering family life. I can't wait to finish it!
After this, I hope to finally get to a book that I checked out from the library: Rifles for Waitie that my friend Angel recommended heartily to me years ago. I need some good fiction after all of these other books! I also hope to finish Tom Sawyer this week too.
That's what's going on here...how 'bout yall? |
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...in the Crozier household today after a very trying day yesterday.
We've been fever-free for over 24 hours, and are on antibiotics, so we're back to Kamp Kennessee for one last day/night of fun.
It's been a killer in gas, but hey, Tessa's worth it, right?!
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