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Pink & Third Culture Kids

I have really missed the theatre. I have had at least two clients who are active in either the professional or amateur levels of theatre companies here and so its been on my mind a lot recently. I just saw and am applying for a job with a theatre company in London as a Hair & Makeup assistant. It is double the hours I am working now and about 5 times my current earnings. I know I may not be a contender since I will be out of the country for two months this summer, but I can a least apply. Either way I think I want to really look at applying for Theatre jobs with my major at Uni and my past work in the last few years has not been to far off from the same sort of work. Would really like to be in a more skill/trade field than a customer service field. Keep me in your prayers. Would love to see what doors open from this.

Update: The application for said job below as it turns out is due in ten hours. I just submitted my application. Perhaps this will not be the door God opens for me, but looking forward to new opportunities.

‘Pink': flowers on the walk home.
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‘Culture': Third culture kids: the experience of life among worlds.

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Watching Thunderbirds with my son on his sick day from school.

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Tooth and & Light

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No more tooth!

Showing his tooth

Ronan’s long awaited top front tooth finally came out tonight. He looks forward to the Tooth Fairy.

Waiting for Ronan’s front tooth to fall out.

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After his tooth was coerced out by @ryana_official. My 7 year old is excited out the tooth fairy’s arrival.
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‘Playing with light.’ Used a mirror as a reflector with the natural lighting from the window.
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‘Light’ part II. Another one with the aid of reflecting light from the window with a mirror.
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‘Somewhere you stand': I still like to try my balance skills like a little kid.
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Got Milk & Paper Airplanes

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Got Milk?

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Maddox the ghost boy. 50mm, 5, F20, ISO 200
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‘Favourite place': Anywhere in the world where my boys and I can have living life.
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Add captio‘Something you fear': Not being able to have a baby girl.
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Love & Family

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‘Love’ poem by Erica Jong taken from the Book of Love.
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Black and white dress day just because.
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‘Family': My boys are my world.
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Mothers Day (USA)

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It is Mother’s Day in the ol’ US of A, but since we already celebrated this holiday here in the UK I did not make it a big deal with my boys. Besides is not every day mothers’ day? 😉

To celebrate Maddox Charles Aherin‘s last day as a four year old we went to the Levity III Luminarium at Lindfield’s Art Festival after church. It was truly a spectacular activity to experience as a family. The boys got to take a hula hoop class from some pretty hippy girls with their ‘High Hoops’ troope and taste some Gluten Free cupcakes. Plus we bought the book in which Ronan’s poem was published. Family Days are certainly Fun Days in life.

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My mum with my friend Bethany and my sister Zoë in Malibu, California.
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At Linfield Art festival with my boys. Ronan had his poem published in a book, so we are here to find and purchase a copy.

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Maddox’s Superhero party at the Bowling Alley

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Maddox’s Super Hero party at the bowling alley was quite fun. We had 13 boys in total and our party hostess took care of pretty much everything. The other parents made a lot of comments on all the details we put together for party. I think the consensus was that I should become a party planner. The photo booth went well though we did just one group shot since it was hard enough to wrangle all the boys together for a photo. The cake pops did not pass the decoration phase and our ‘plan b’ cake got left at home by mistake. So we are going to enjoy the cake on Maddox’s actual birthday. I have had very little sleep with party prep…pretty much exhausted.

Bridesmaid hair today at work. Stylist: Bonnie Rose
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‘Birds': We like to watch the ducks after church on Sundays.
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‘Something that makes you happy': Finding a bespoke dresser that looks like a dollhouse.

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My take on Wonder Woman for my son’s superhero party.

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Popart Superhero Birthday Party

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Maddox as Batman for his 5th Birthday party at the bowling alley. He chose the theme of Justice League and I tied in a little Pop Art to give it an added PUNCH! (No pun intended)

Older brother, Ronan, went as Green Lantern.

Batman & Green Lantern before the party commences.

Batman, Superman, and Green Lantern.

11 boys (plus two younger ones not pictured) all together. England is not so big on dressing up for things. We had2 boys that were Justice League themed, one marvel superhero, one Indiana Jones (um, might have gotten confused from Ronan’s party invite back in January?), one police officer, and four in plain street clothes. I think in hindsight I should have just had Maddox dress up and made capes for all the other kids for better themed photo. Or try it again in the USA.

This was our party host who orchestrated the whole bowling party. She was amazing. Keeping 11 boys under the age of 9 in line while dealing with heavy bowling balls is not an easy feat.

Maddox and boys lining up to start bowling.

Maddox bowling at his birthday party.

The birthday banner I made from Flash comics with Maddox’s name on it. We used it to decorate the party table.

The party bags that I made with the Pop Art comic book theme. I bought a bag of confetti and glued each dot on, one at a time.

The table center piece with the pop art dots and an M (for Maddox) and a 5 (for his age) which I collaged in Flash and DC comics.

Each boy got a photo frame/thank you card that I collaged individually in comics.

Another look at the photo frame/thank you cards.

Since the cake pops fell through, I decorated lollipops with masks and capes. Using a two tier cake stand, I decorated it with the cup cake toppers I made.

Another look at the center piece.

Wonder Woman and Batman gift tags.

I believe all the photo frame/thank you cards were Flash themed.

Maddox telling his dad, Superman, how much fun he is having at his party.

Holy Cupcakes Batman it is time for food! (Sadly with the cake pops not turning out, we ended up leaving the back up cake at home. So no singing at this party. Thats okay because they don’t eat birthday cake at the kid parties in England.

As the kids were getting ready to leave, we quickly rounded up a few of them for a very quick photo with the felt masks I sewed and put in each of the goodie bags.