Pirates!

We left our Wednesday playgroup and are thrilled that all of our friends have arranged to meet once a week with us on another day. We are so blessed to have created friendships with them that they are willing to work to keep. The tweens are meeting at one house, while their siblings are meeting at someone else's (who happens to live within walking distance of the first). Here's a photo of the younger crew last week; E with his best buds:

This week we had planned to have all the kids together rather than meet at separate houses, but too many kids are sick, so we canceled this time around. I'm glad we've been doing other fun things so the boys didn't miss it too much.

This evening we went to our now annual excursion to The Connecticut Gilbert & Sullivan Society's yearly performance. A CT homeschooling family participates with this group and invites other homeschoolers to come to the dress rehearsal for free, which is awesome, since were we to pay, it would cost us $80.

This time it was The Pirates of Penzance. It's so cool that the boys love to go see an opera (ok, technically it's an operetta) every year. R even skipped his last soccer practice of the season for it. The show was very funny, but we still all agree that our favorite was the first show we saw, Iolanthe in 2007. After all, although we had silly pirates this year, Iolanthe had the classic large woman with shielded breasts and long braids with a horned helmet. We'll keep going every year that we are invited to, but it will be hard to top that.