Hip Hopping Saturday in Darien

Amanda and Marisa at dress rehearsal

Mitch and buddies

Look at Us

Up at 5:30, to a cloudy but warm morning and I am the first one up.  It's now 6:15 and both Beth and Rami are up, Rami to work, Beth to take Tyler to his ACT in Westchester, about twenty miles away.  It sounds like a humid, hot weekend ahead for us.

It's hard to believe we have been in Darien for five days; they seem to blend together, so I cannot remember one day from the last.  School for the kids, practice for Marisa, lunches and dinners, lots of chauffeuring, walk the dog, things like that, a fairly normal day for today's family.

Yesterday late morning, Evie and Beth went out shopping for a dress for the Shorten wedding this summer in July.  She ended up finding a fancy dress at a consignment store in Darien but was not sure if it was quite right.  While they went shopping, I took Tyler out to practice his driving, so we headed to New Caanan, stopped for lunch at Rosie's in the town and visited a bookstore.  I had made up a summer reading list for Tyler so we went over the books, and he asked questions.  We ended up picking out four or five very different books for him to read this summer, though he has quite a few to read for school next year as well.  He drove really well, just has to keep paying attention to what's going on both behind and in front and the sides.

Later in the afternoon, we went to Marisa's dress rehearsal, and all three of us taped it.  From these, we ought to have at least one good one.  We left after Marisa's dance, came home and relaxed with some white wine while Beth got ready for a gathering of Fairfield's Crew parents.  She left about 7:30 and Tyler and Marisa and Evie and I had dinner, mostly leftover ribs and chicken.  Mitch was at a sleep over with his Long Board buddies. We watched an Iranian movie, Children of Heaven, with Marisa, one we had watched with Marlena in KC this past spring, about a young boy who loses his sister's shoes, so they have to end up sharing one pair. Rami got home around 9:30 from work and we watched the first episode of The Wire with Tyler.  We went to bed around 10:30 and Beth, the party girl, was still not home.  It was like waiting up for your  teenager where you finally say, it's too late, I am going to bed.