Carmina Burana, Polka, & Picasso

What do these things have in common?  I experienced them all on Friday with my mom.  Dad spent last week in Iowa with disaster relief, so Mom decided to come for a visit.  We decided to take in some activities that Dad would have vetoed if he had been here. 

We started off with a trip to the Indianapolis Museum of Art.  For the evening we had tickets to the Indianapolis Symphony performing Carmina Burana.  We stopped by Au Bon Pain for dinner and ate outside on Monument Circle. 

Just down the street from us was a choir performing praise and worship songs.  However the other side of Monument Circle was hosting Oktoberfest.  Eventually the polka music kicked up and unfortunately drowned out the choir.

We also had a little beggar join us while we ate.  And we happily obliged.

Then off to the Hilbert Circle Theater for the symphony.  This was the 2nd performance under the new music director at the ISO, Kryzstof Urbanski.  The first half of the performance was 2 pieces just for strings.  After the intermission the full orchestra backed by the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir and the Indianpolis Childrens Choir performed Carmina Burana.  The most impressive thing to me was the fact that Urbanski conducted not only the orchestra but the choir for the entire performance without any music in front of him.  For close to an hour he conducted perfectly.  The performance even had some elements of humor to it.  I throughly enjoyed it and I know Mom had a great time for her 1st trip to the symphony.

The only photo I could grab....right at the conclusion of the performance.   The standing ovation went on and on! :)

Mabel the House Fairy

Mabel the house fairy decided to make a house call today.  On the docket for this day was the Bohrer home where 6 fabulous people live.  Mabel arrived at the Bohrer's to much confusion.  The kids were not sure why this person who greatly resembled Miss Heidi was in their living room wearing silver high heels, a blue metallic cape, name badge, pink scarf, black bandanna, and more blue eyeshadow than should be allowed by law!  Also they were not sure why Mabel spoke with an accent that was a cross between Martin Short's character, Franck, from "Father of the Bride" and Mr. Miyagi!

House fairies should always carry proper credentials.  Also Mabel the house fairy is not to be confused with Wilma the Cleaning Fairy.  Wilma is OCD about clean and somewhat annoying.  Mabel is more concerned with the entire state of the house and those who live there...an unmade bed doesn't cause her to twitch like it does Wilma.  :)

Mabel spent some time in each kid's room asking them how they felt about it and what they liked most about their room.  Together Mabel and each kid came up with a plan of one goal to work on for the next week.  Remember Mabel is not there to make anyone feel ashamed, but to encourage!  Mabel wrote each goal on a card and topped it off with a bible verse for each kid.

Mabel also addressed some issues that the adults in the household had and gave some sound advice.  (Although she's sure that one of the adults is in severe denial about a particular clothing issue!) 

 So be ready!  You never know when you might get a visit from Mabel! 

Orchard time again

DELISH!

Preston, who goes to our church, has opened up a new cake shop in Brownsburg.  Delish Cakes....and the name does not disappoint!  Dusty and I tried to go by last week thinking he had opened, but no luck.  However, Preston was in and we got an advanced tour.  Then Heather & I stopped by on Tuesday on what we thought was opening day, but we were a day early.  Again Preston was very gracious and offered us a preview.  Mmmmmmm.......carrot cake!

Wednesday was opening day and that case is now fully stocked with cakes and desserts!

Heather says that she can picture meeting up for dessert and coffee quite often.  I said we'll have to hit the gym quite often if we keep that up.

So if you're in the area and you need a cake, Preston's your man.  And if your sweet tooth is screaming at you for a snack, drop in for a slice! 

Delish Cakes
405 East Main Street, Brownsburg
317-852-7900