The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

 

Fiction   Physical Book

I will start with a language warning. Foul language in this one.  Otherwise, I loved this book.  The setting is England. Our narrator is an autistic young man named Christopher.  We see everything from his perspective.  We are inside his head and learn so very much about autism.  I loved how the author presented very real, very flawed characters.  We see how very difficult life is for families dealing with this condition.  This book moved me deeply.  I gained an empathy I didn’t have before.  Soon after finishing the book, I visited with a friend who has an adult autistic son.  I expressed my newly-learned empathy.  She got tears in her eyes as I conveyed my respect for her.  Again, a 5 star book has to be reduced to 3 stars for language.  Sigh. 

Why So Many Books?

 This articulates how I feel about collecting books.  It gives me so much joy to find a book that I've been wanting to read.

Wonderful Weekend with the Prince Family

 May 14th-16th, we traveled to South Jordan to watch grandkids in several events in their lives.

And to see Fred, of course.

William had to demonstrate his slam dunk skills.

William is a gifted musician.  I know grandparents like to brag, but he really has a gift.  In fact, his teacher just told his mom that she needs to find a better teacher for him because he needs someone that can help him develop his talents better.  He LOVES to sit down and play.  No one has to remind or nag him.  He played many songs for us.  Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho was his best which will be his recital piece.

This is his preferred way to sit at the piano.

On Thursday morning, we attended an award ceremony at the middle school where Jaron won the Wapiti Medallion Award.

Jaron is such a great kid.  He's solid.

The award winners.

Then we hurried over to the elementary school where Kenny participated in the fifth-grade Patriotic musical program.  It was AMAZING!  It was a celebration of the 250th anniversary of America.

Kenny is in top row right.  The kids knew every word and did their parts so well.  There weren't many dry eyes in the audience.  It was powerful!

These pictures are a bit scrambled, but this is a picture of William after his final soccer game of the season.  We were glad we got to watch him play in one.

After watching Kenny play in his basketball game.  He is really good.

On Friday night we attended a musical that Jaron and Gabbi participated in.  It was great!

Gabbi's solo.

Dancing a reel

Both of them played several parts.  This is Jaron as a pirate.

A very clever mop dance as they swabbed the deck.

This was such a cute song and dance.  Gabbi is a great actress.

Jaron's solo

Jaron stole the show as the goofy priest.  Gabbi was his assistant.

He was hilarious and had the audience rolling.

Curtain Call.  It was SO good!  We loved it.

Gabbi and her friend Katie

 

William's Final Soccer Game

Time to say goodbye

William wasn't going to let us go.

He decided he was going with us and wouldn't get out of the car.

Brian had to pull him out of the car and haul him inside.

We had such a great weekend with the Prince family.