Performing

Tonight was the children's school Christmas Program. Although this is our first year at our school, I was told it was quite a production...and was it ever! Each of the nine classes had a ten minute production, with over a dozen solos and piano performances in between.

K, seems to be quite at home on stage. The pure joy that lights up her face is contagious. You cannot help but grin when watching her.

Her class has a ball performing three songs from Charlie Brown Christmas, especially when they got to jump around and dance like the Peanuts characters.

R has historically been my child least likely to perform. He is typically serious and intense, so standing under the lights in front of a few hundred of people is not his forte.Tonight he took his role very seriously and performed selections from "White Christmas" with everything he could muster.

P, my class clown, was in his element dressed wildly as a Who from Dr. Suess' Whooville. I thought it was wise to wait until showtime to put on his scarf. In retrospect that was a poor decision, as he spent his entire time on stage trying to position it.

Although he has practiced the lyrics for weeks, tonight his lips did not utter a one! He was far too taken with everything going on around him...especially the fake snow!


Of course, my favorite three moments of the entire 2 hour show were when each of my children spotted me in the audience and said, "Mom!" with an incredible grin. Is there anything in the WORLD like that feeling?