This week we read the Lamb’s version of “Much Ado About Nothing” and we are now viewing the DVD (which I’m editing due to the window scene.) The funny thing is that the Lamb version mentions Hero’s maid talking to a man at the window (upsetting Claudio and setting off the cascade of misunderstanding) but I’ve not read the play! I had only seen the movie so I wondered if “talking” was the Lamb’s code word for what the movie depicted (which was NOT talking.) (Did you read the play? Was the maid talking or more?) Having not seen the movie in years I’m screening ahead to verify the rest is safe and we’ll skip the “talking” scene but I’m surprised at how much the kids are enjoying it, even though it’s Shakespeare speak.

And Christopher’s taught me a lesson – I told him after he finishes each Harry Potter book he can watch the film. I thought that would buy me time, maybe until he was 13 and old enough to watch the later ones?? Ha, ha. He’s working through book seven right now, I read it again this last week to remember the story so I could answer questions and to brace for tragedy. He had anticipated someone’s death in the last book (I’ll be vague in case y’all haven’t read it) and seemed to handle that well, but he was pretty upset by the loss of a pet in this one. I can never predict these kids! So we watched the sixth movie together and put the seventh (part one) on hold at the library. We’re #53 in line or something crazy, so we’ll get to watch it probably sometime this year? 🙂