July 25, 2007

• ~Harry and the Potters~

  Last night I took the kids to see  ”The Whomping Willows“, “Draco and the Malfoys” and “Harry and the Potters“. It was so much fun! I had to laugh out loud when Maria~Angelica tore the bow out of her hair and threw it to the ground in order to let her hair down while she shook her head to the music; she was dancing in the aisle and was just as entertaining as the bands. I don’t have any pictures but a good time was definitely had by all! I am sorry Nicholas missed out, he is in Cincinnati. (Keep us in your prayers today as we travel to Cincy to see my father in the hospital.)

  Ten years ago when the J.K. Rowling’s first book was published  we were living in London, England; Basil was just a newborn baby and the Harry Potter craze was not at all on our radar- that was until about a month ago. At the end of the school year Basil, now aged 9,  showed an interest in reading the Harry Potter books and he devored books 1- 6 in the first 3 weeks of his summer break.  It has been so much fun to be a part of the end of an era with the 7th and final book being released. Last Friday we were at the bookstore at 1am to buy our copy of book number 7 and Basil has already finished it! I am really very proud of him; that is an extraordinary amount of reading in a very short time.  It is pretty amazing the children that were 9 when the first book came out are now in college; they have had the thrill of anticipation waiting for the books year after year. Yes, we missed that whole era but the series is great nonetheless and we are enjoying the tail end of the Harry Potter years and the music that the books inspired is really pretty awesome too!

      
   

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