And where did January and February go??

Well, if I post nothing else this month - and it's highly likely that it might come to that - we will at least have noted the Ides of March! Originally done way back when - as in when we lived in Butterfield Arms in Salt Lake City in 1973!!

Ronnie Horton's birthday is the Ides of March - and so we decided to celebrate by re-enacting the assassination of Julius Caeser. 

And thus a tradition was born!

 

We used to have an Ides of March party every year - the guest list grew - and shrank - and grew again.

 

Some years it was an extended FHE activity.

 

And there are lots of stories to tell about how kids and grandkids reacted to the activity.  My favorite is the year Dawn came when she and Harry were just engaged.  After we finished, she said, "That was short - I thought it was much longer."

She had assumed we would be doing the whole play!! (We have long had an abridged version we use.) 

I was impressed that she had come willing to do the whole thing!!

 

Soon it got to be too much - for lots of reasons - and so we don't do it anymore.

But we love the memories!