"Somewhere In My Youth Or Childhood…"

“…I must have done something good.”

My lovely husband is giving me an early Christmas present this evening.  We’re going out on a date…first to dinner, and then to see The Sound of Music at the Ordway!  Whoa!  This is a dream come true…well, actually… I dared to dream much bigger than this.  I dreamed of playing Fraulein Maria in The Sound of Music one day.  But then again, I also dreamed of getting married and having four children.    I wonder if I thought I could do both at once? 

P.S.  Did you know that on my seventeenth birthday Dave serenaded me at my bedroom window with “You are Sixteen, Going on Seventeen?”  I know…how romantic.  But I remember feeling so embarrassed that I wouldn’t even go to the window!  I suppose it didn’t help that my mother and two sisters were in the room with me getting a great kick out of it.  Poor Dave!

P.P.S.  This will probably be the last post from me for a couple of weeks (although Dave may post some photos on Christmas day).  We have a busy few days coming up, and then, on Boxing Day - also known as the day after Christmas for my non-Canuck readers - we are leaving for Toronto to visit my sister, Jill, and her family!  Hooray!  We’re very excited. 

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!