One Mama's Madness

Hi everyone. Since my last post we have been soooooo busy! School has started, soccer has started, Tyler had his 4th birthday, today is Laurel's 10th birthday and the biggest chunk of our time has been....another PLAY! Laurel auditioned for a play at the local university. The theater dept. here has a great theater season with at least 4 shows every semester. The plays are done as part of the theater majors required credits and occasionally they need children. The auditions for the fall semester were held the end of August right before school started. For the four plays being done this semester Annie Get Your Gun needed 3 kids, and the other 3 plays needed a total of 5 more kids. Since it was our first experience with all this we let Laurel audition for only Annie Get Your Gun. There were at least 30-40 kids there for audtions and Laurel got a part!!!!!We were so proud of her! She played Nellie, Annie Oakley's little sister. After 5 weeks of practice, sometimes 6 nights a week and some practices lasting over 5 hours, not getting home until 11:30 on a lot of school nights...the show finally opened on Sept. 25th and ran for ten shows through Oct. 4th. It was GREAT! Unfortunately no cameras or video were allowed because of copyright laws but my mother-in-law did manage to get a couple shots with her phone. So here is one final shot of the kids taking their bows. Laurel is the one on the left with the red longjohns under her light colored dress. The sad part about after it was over was that the next morning she had a fever of 103.9°F and was home sick with the flu for the entire week last week. Now this week her brother is home sick! UGH!