Big Eyes

We had yet another production at the church tonight, with folks in the overflow watching on the big screens.  A LOT of people have come to watch this thing, which is overwhelming in a way.  Daddy had some part in writing the story flow, and some of the ideas - like having a guy come down from a stretcher from the ceiling, slowly lowered to Jesus.  This while others were being healed, of course - it took time to get the guy to come down, and you had to be careful with that concrete stage.  

Anyway, we got there early to the church as we always do.  While Mommy was getting the costumes prepared, Madison and Daddy went to his office, and while there we did a bit of preparing for Easter.  How did we do that, you ask?

Big eyes.  I know what you're saying.  What does this have to do with Easter?  Absolutely nothing!  But it does have something to do with Mommy's Easter basket.  Daddy went with the theme of "Big Eyes" for the Easter basket this year, which is all centered around the recent movie of the same name.  To that extent, here is a picture of the completed basket.  Given the time that we had this year (not much because of the Easter production), I think it turned out well:

This will be waiting on Mommy tomorrow.  Daddy taped or glued large googly eyes on Easter eggs and even the stuffed bunny there, along with actual pictures from Margaret Keane.  I couldn't get a physical copy of the movie itself (it's not released on shelves yet), but own it (sort of) on a "cloud" somewhere.  This is technology that makes no sense to me.  I do not own it, as I can't pull it off of a shelf and plug it in to watch it.  But somewhere in cyberspace, I have access for the rest of the existence of that "cloud" to a version of "Big Eyes."  I have nothing to hold in my hands, just the word of a computer - provided I have internet access and an updated computer to watch it on.  This is the future, they say.  Where books are digital and movies are digital and games are digital.  On one hand, there's a whole lot less clutter.  On the other hand, we are completely dependent on a whole lot of factors to read these books, watch these movies and play these games.  Will all of these factors line up and allow us to read/view/play the stuff we paid for in twenty years?  Or are we essentially paying a rental fee for a certain amount of years.  With books, CDs, game discs and cartridges, DVDs and Blu-Rays, you know for certain you can use these items in twenty years - so long as you still have electricity, and device to play them.  And assuming you take care of said devices, you should be good to go.  But not with all this cyberspace material.  You can see how our generation is sort of reluctant to go with all this technology.

Anyway, it's been a big day here.  We spent much of it relaxing in the morning, sleeping in and so forth.  But we did go in early, and that's when the working started.  And the production did go very well.  Backstage, Madison was enjoying herself, and making new friends.

It's been a great weekend already.  And we haven't even gotten to Easter Sunday yet!