I took the kids to Grand Tourney of the Unicorn yesterday (an SCA event) and I think they all had fun. The girls all seemed to be enjoying children's point, and both Ben and Jacob got a chance to boffer. (Jacob is too young to join any tournaments yet, but he can practice and receive instruction from the Marshals.) I was way behind on my costume sewing, unfortunately, (something to do with my sewing machine being dead), so Ben (in the black helmet) didn't have one of my patented padded tunics to wear. Luckily they aren't required. Jacob (in green) was wearing Lori's old middle-eastern garb and the smaller of the two padded tunics I made up a couple years ago, and all the girls had handed their dresses down a step, leaving Azure with nothing appropriate to wear, so we just sorta improvised something for her. Hopefully I'll hear back from the shop about the part I ordered soon, and can get something done for Azure and new bigger boffer “armor” for Ben before the next event.
The boy in “mundane” clothing is Lord Gareth (I think, I'm bad at names) who was acting as a youth Marshal. He hadn't wanted to put his armor on, because in his opinion it was too hot to fight.
Apparently “Wearing the Whole Armor of God” has been an assigned topic in church (LDS), this month, or something. I had one couple turn up my song on that in a web search and hoped to sing it, and I had to confess that although it had a melody, that's *all* it had, no accompaniment or anything… 🙁
But yesterday I had someone who wanted to put it my 'Armor of God' poem on book marks to hand out to the teen-aged girls at standard's night.
That was cool.