Acting Camp Has Begun!

The first day of Acting Camp is over!

Or is it? After getting up this morning, setting up chairs in my garage, trying to screw those little teeny, tiny screws into the little teeny, tiny holes to attach the hooks to hang up a white board (finally giving up and sticking thumbtacks in--really, who has ever been able to even hold on to screws that tiny?), getting the waterbottles ready (I know, how nice am I?), answering the phone 19 times, running to the store to get the odds and ends I'd forgotten, having my kids draw pictures of Broadway plays to hang on the walls, doing some last minute planning, spraying a wasp nest that was right outside the garage door that the kids would be enterring through (there were probably 40 wasps just hanging out right there. Not anymore!),

welcoming the kids, breathing a sigh of relief because there were 17 parts in the play and exactly 17 kids came (whew!), dressing up like "Aunty Lola Mae Peachy Pie" from the South to tell the kids Today's Business, having the kids come up with rules for the Camp (including #4. Have fun!, #5. Have fun!, and #12. Have lots of fun!), playing the Name Game where we sat in a circle and said the name of the person to the left of you as if they were a rockstar, little baby, crazy person, etc., watching Stacie and the kids freeze like crystals then relax like spaghetti (so funny!), singing Father Abraham as a warm-up, walking across the "stage" (three big panels on the floor--awesome stage, by the way) as if it was tar or feathers or popcorn or mashed potatoes, eating some of Christy's yummy cookies during our break, teaching stage directions (up stage right, anyone?), playing the stage direction game (cross downstage right while facing upstage left and kneel on downstage knee), teaching parts of the script, reading through our awesome "Magnificent Mischief Maker Award" script, coming up with a secret handshake (each group of two added their part on to it and they all have to remember it for tomorrow morning), saying good-bye to the kids,

losing my voice, planning with my friends/unsuspecting helpers Christy and Stacie about what we're doing tomorrow, assigning parts for the kids, eating lots of saltwater taffy and more of Christy's yummy cookies (they're awesome--have you tasted them?), finding someone with a big old cardboard box for scenery, answering the phone 19 more times, making dinner for the kids, fixing and printing off the script to be copied, updating the kids' list with phone numbers and such, realizing no one has clean underwear in my family and starting the laundry, and cleaning up the stuff we got out from this morning...

I now just have to get with Christy and Stacie tonight at 9:00 (in 1/2 hour), go over the script again, rewrite a whole scene in the script so two little girls will be happier when they find out what their parts are tomorrow, highlight all the copies of scripts, plan tomorrow's lesson and game on Improv, think of a character to be for Tomorrow's Business, come up with an extra game, water the flowers, get the kids in bed, and find time to exercise.

Then the first day of Acting Camp will be over.

Good thing I'm having so much fun! :)