Clownmommy

We did our piece and it was a success because:

We met our objectives…

1. We put something on the stage at the appointed date and time.

2. We found out that Lorraine and I can have fun in rehearsal working together as a puppeteer and a clown.    That’s major!

3. We learned that our concept does have potential as a theatrical evening.  We got laughs!

This was the first step of a long project.  It is our knitting, our sweater that we will pick up to work on whenever we can.

It is something to feel good about.

We’ve done a clown festival, perhaps the next time we mount it will be for a puppet festival.

Sorry I can’t remember how to imbed the video but here is the address if you haven’t seen it:

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/palin-hillary-open/656281/

http://www.voteforchange.com/index_obama.php?source=091008emailR

We’re getting ready to go out the door on our way to the theatre.

and then why would I need space?  I could just sit in a coffee shop.

when i leave the studio everything becomes about picking up my kid and talking to other moms on the playground and going to the grocery store and supervising homework and turning off the TV…

Lorraine is cutting paper with a razor blade and I am changing my mind about the music.

Dear Ms. Teacher 

My Kid was late 

absent

 today

yesterday

 because a

cold

loose tooth

existential crisis

gave her a headache

Sincerely,

My Kid’s Mom

After rehearsal, we came back to the apartment, Lorraine got to work  and I had a few minutes to check e-mail, then I had to go get on the train to go pick up My Kid at school by 3:00 o’clock.  I was a little late, but I slowed myself down even further when I ran into another mommy who was getting off the train with 3 large bags of art supplies.  So I walked to the school with her and helped her carry one of her bags.  She’s working on an art degree, and had just spent a couple hundred dollars at the art store because she has four paintings due on Monday.  (Last night I enjoyed sitting in the front room with Lorraine as she cut out shadow puppets.  I lapsed into reverie about the way I used to be able to work late into the night…  Since My Kid started all day school I have struggled with trying to “work” during the day.  For creative work, that has been difficult for me. Unless I’ve gone into a studio or talked through a project–as I read this I realize I can work with other people during the day but to work by myself–I work best in the middle of the night.  That’s not so easy when My Kid is on a school schedule.  Where was I…Oh yeah I was describing my day…Let’s see, I got as far as pick-up.  I was a little late.  Art Mommy and I collected our kids from the auditorium–where the kids whose parents or caregivers failed to appear at exactly 3 o’clock are contained. Then My Kid led me out to the damp playground where the usual suspects were assembled.  I gave postcards to some of the other mommies, but I don’t expect them to come.  This particular performance on 9/11 is not very parent friendly. I’ve invited some local mommies to come see my rehearsal in the same room where the local toddler “Music Together” classes are held at the South Oxford Space.  They may show up.  My Kid and I took the 2/3 train so we could walk away from the school in the same directions as her friends.  We stopped at Target to look for a gooseneck clip-on lamp for the shadow puppets.  No luck.  Bought some heavy cans of soup and spagetti-os to walk home with.  We found what we were looking for at Office Max.  When we got home Lorraine was on the front stoop applying paper mache to the alien baby head.  So we sat and talked, and chatted to the neighbors who passed by.

Now, pasta, beer and laptops for every adult in the room.  My Kid has her homework.  E-mails and phone calls continue, but our outside life is over for the day.  Time to wash the dishes and put My Kid to bed.