Saint Nicholas

On Saturday In Foxborough

In Which We Almost Meet Jan Brett

 

Though we ultimately did not get to meet Jan (that's a story for another time!), it was really neat to see her at our town library and get to watch her draw the main character from her new book The Christmas Sweater! Fun fact: Marlborough was her only Massachusetts stop on her book tour! xo 

Scenes From Thanksgiving

 

Another lovely gathering in which we gave thanks to Mother Earth and her children and enjoyed a day of good company and good food! xo 

From Our Flock to Yours

Happy Thanksgiving Eve from our flock to yours! xo 

6:37am

 

Our Friday Night

 

We have been looking forward to Wicked for Good since last year and it did not disappoint! In fact, it was everything we knew it would be and more! Honestly, it is hard to adequately express how much these two movies have made me fall in with these characters and this version of the Oz story. We took Grace to see the Broadway play for her sixteenth birthday (it was here in Boston at that exact time!) and while I enjoyed it I didn't leave the theater feeling that I loved it, and I think that was in part due to certain aspects of the story that were not so clear in the stage version. I loved that in these two movies were able to dive deeper in to the animal theme that is key to what is driving Elphaba to become the resistance to what is occurring in Oz. The parallels between what is occurring in Oz and what we are seeing occur here in America is also incredibly timely, important and not lost on us. Jon M. Chu, his team, the cast and the crew truly have create a cinematic masterpiece! xo