"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

We are just two days away from the premier and our excitment is unstoppable.

No one wants to talk to us because somehow the conversation always goes back to Harry.

We are not dwelling in dreams

We would never not take Dumbledore's advice

However we are daydreaming about Hogwarts and the Wizarding World

Do you think it is unhealthy to be this obsessed?

I don't

Amber doesn't

We have been getting our "outfits" that sounds like a lame word but I can't think of a better one

Costumes doesn't fit because that would elude to the fact they we are dressing as a character

Which we are not

Our clothing will just be Potter themed

This is mine.

Close up of my awesome ring that Amber got me. I love that the owl has Harry-esque glasses

This is Amber's.......it's an awesome quidditch jersey with Number 7 on the back

I made this necklace for Amber using an old optometry glass.

 The words are the dedication from the last book.

This is pretty much what the boy will be wearing.....minus the trunk and owl

Lets talk about characters.....
Mrs. Weasley is my favorite character. I just really love the way she was written and the actress who plays her reminds me of my Mom.
I also love Bellatrix Lestrange
I could dress like her easily because we have the same hair.

Dobby and Sirius Black are the boys two favorite characters

Oliver Wood, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Neville Longbottom and Fred and George Weasley are Amber's favorites.....I asked her for two and that is what she gave me
I asked for two again and said "just two this time!!!"
So she said Oliver and Fred and George Weasley......
I am pretty sure that is three
Unless we are now counting twins as One

My least favorite is Draco Malfoy cause I found him to be annoying....although I really like the actor
Amber's least favorite is Gilderoy Lockhart she doesn't know why
The boy's least favorite is Bellatrix....I think he picked her because he was mad that I kept asking who his least favorite is and he knows she is one of my favorites....he is so mean to his Mum sometimes!

Back to favorites if I had to pick a third it would be Snape......I am so going to cry when he dies.

Who is your favorite character? Who is your least favorite?

One last thing....Amber thinks she looks like Harry Potter in this old photo of her from first grade.

Do you agree?

Thats obviously her with the glasses.

Tonight we will be having
Cornish Pasties
Butterbeer cupcakes

Have a Wonderfully Wizardy Wednesday!



Childhood Friends

I was thinking about a question I read somewhere

I don't remember the exact wording but it was something like :

What book represents or reminds you of your childhood.

So here is a question I pose to you....

What Book (or movie) most represents your interaction with your childhood friends?

My answer is The Body (aka Stand By Me) for my book choice or Then and Now for my movie choice.

Why The Body?
To me the body was more then about the boys going out in search of the body of a dead neighborhood kid. It was about exceptance and adventure. It was about finding friends you could count on and being able to just be yourself.

Growing up I had two great friends Kathleen and Karen. They are sisters Kathleen my age and Karen one year younger then us. Their grandmother lived two houses away from the house I grew up in. Which is how we met Kathleen and I just toddlers thrown together by our mothers probably so they could have a minute to themselves. We ended up attending the same Catholic elementary school and our friendship grew within those walls during the winter months when we only saw each other during those school hours.

I picked this book because it is set in the summer and when we were growing up....

 the summers belonged to us!

Everything about us changed in the summer. We had no school worries. No thoughts of not fitting in. Our parents barely existed in our summer world. We were the queens of the neighborhood.

Summer Life was an adventure to be had and it seemed to stretch on forever.

Back then all we had was our imagination and we made up games, invented danger, drama and ways to scare ourselves. Behind the house Kathleen and Karen shared with their mother and five brothers and sisters was a tall stone wall. It rose at least ten feet high but back then it was like looking up at a sky scarper. Their house sat low on a hill so the top of that wall on the other side was only waist high. To access the other side of the wall you had to go down an alley between two houses.

We were not supposed to go there.

We were not supposed to sit on the wall.

We definitely were not supposed to slip over the wall and climb down into their backyard.

But we did

And we always got caught...a ratting sibling...a big mouthed neighbor....

Like The Body our adventures involved camping out.

We lived in the city so we slept in sleeping bags on small patches of backyard grass or laid across wooden front porches. Also like The Body my older brother made it his goal to torment us as much as possible without getting caught by my mother.

We were inseparable. We were the keepers of each others deepest secrets and darkest fears.

 I never felt left out by not being their sister.

Our story doesn't involve the discovery of a dead body

Although we did think we killed my little brother once

We blamed Karen

Every summer we found ourselves. We were brave, smart and funny. Slowly we started to carry that confidence into the school year. And when we forgot we had each other to help us remember.

The Body ends with with the friends going their separate ways and sadly all but Gordy die young.

Our story ends happier

We all have families now and although we don't see each other very often we can still count on each other

 They were both there for me when my Dad died 14 years ago.

And I hope they felt my love and support when their Mom died last May.

My children know their names and have heard the stories of our adventures.

We are legends if only in my own mind!

So how about you?