Combat Sticks

Daddy doesn't take his camera with him to Madison's taekwondo, but from time to time I'll turn this computer around and use its Photo Booth feature to snap a quick shot of Madison.  It's pretty low quality, but this gives you the idea of the view from the waiting area.  Daddy sits and types up things, like tonight he was working on the new devotional for this next series, which is just getting its wings at the moment.  But the momentum is really going forward.

Meanwhile, Madison is working on her form, as you can see above.  She says she remembers it simply by practicing it on the mat there, not really needing to practice so much at home.  She looks great out there, so precise and in great form.  She's like a mantis!

The other thing she did for the first time was a combat stick fight.  They don't use their actual bahng mahng ee sticks, because those can hurt a bit when they strike someone.  So they have these tempered combat weapons with cushions and so forth.  Madison ultimately lost the match by one point, but she told me she did a lot better than she expected.  For one thing, she had never done it before.  She was surprisingly evasive, and did well with her strikes, and perhaps the point values of where the strikes were and how they were delivered ultimately helped her opponent win the match.  But she had a great time with it, and can't wait to try it again.  She's fearless that way.

Tonight, she finished up some homework, and afterwards we were watching a few more episodes of the Freemakers.  Tomorrow night we should have those all done.  They're great episodes - the three of us get on the couch with the new popcorn, which is delicious, by the way.  We watched a couple episodes before heading off to bed, where we read some more from the latest Neverland adventure.  Tomorrow is an early morning with art club, so we couldn't stay up too late.

It was a cooler day today, despite the technical fact that it is spring.  The sun went down and it got even more chilly, the large bright full moon sneaking up over the horizon.  We see it through one of those higher windows in the great room.  It's a big window, and that moon just fills it up, this bright thing that we all look up at in wonder.  Someone walks by, and inevitably, there's this, "Hey, look at the moon tonight!"  Tonight was one of those nights where we could say that.  It was very impressive.

There's so much going on though, with lots more to write, Summer Xtreme included.  Daddy started the first message today, also the skit for this Sunday's "Romans," and worked on the devotional for "Miracles," helping with the upcoming Easter Festival, while doing graphics for "Romans" and ... well, you get the drift.  We're all over the map.

But there's a Spring Break coming soon, and I have three books I want to read all of the sudden - these books have nothing to do with work, so that should be nice.  It's always good to disappear into a book.  Or, perhaps Mustafar.  Sometimes Madison and I go there and blast Stormtroopers and try to hide from Anakin.  He's lurking out there, and it's best to keep your distance - especially with that glowing combat stick he has.