My daughter has been taking aerial silks classes for several years now. I had noticed that she wasn’t talking about it nearly as enthusiastically as she had been, but she never said anything about quitting. When she decided to try out for color guard I told her she would probably have to quit aerial just because of the time commitment for color guard. She was fine with that, but didn’t say she wanted to quit sooner.
Until we attended a play her friend was in. She and her brother have both decided they want to join the youth acting guild and quit aerial. The next play’s auditions are today. So I dropped them off and had to figure out what to do with myself for 3 hours. Sure, I could have gone home (it’s only 15 minutes away), but parking is a pain, since it’s in the old courthouse on the square and I really didn’t feel like finding another parking place just to pick them up.
So instead I brought my laptop and found a cafe (and spent way too much on an iced tea) with wifi. After about 45 minutes a live music performance started up right next to me and was way too distracting. I remembered that there was a library nearby, so I decided to walk over and see if there was a good place to sit and work like at my local library. I wandered around the entire building. It’s very nice, but there aren’t as many tucked away spots with outlets as there are at “my” library. But that’s okay. I can live with it. This will be a great place to spend the time my kids are at rehearsals once those start!
While I’ve been sitting here I’ve been emailing back and forth with a Toyota salesman at a dealership 50 minutes north of me. He is thinking he can get me a Sienna much sooner than the local sales manager said I would get one. He said we might even be able to have me in a new vehicle in the next couple of days! I had hoped to have something new for Spring Break, since we plan on going on 2 road trips that week. This would be perfect. I’m going to try not to get my hopes up too much, though. I’m still a bit worried about it fitting in my garage.
Okay, back to my new routines. The rehearsals are M/W 6-9 and Saturday 10-1, so it looks like I’m going to either spend a LOT of time here at this library or find other things to do. I don’t think they will have to be at every rehearsal, but that all depends on what parts they get. And dinners on M/W will be tricky. As well as lunch on Saturdays. But I’m glad they are both interested in performing. As a former theatre teacher, I happen to think it’s a great place to be in general. But more than that, I want them to find a group of people they can feel comfortable with. And based on the performance we saw, I think this group will be perfect for them. Especially with the friend that is already in the group.
Now, it does mean they will be missing Wednesday night Small Group at church, but they will still have Sunday School, Youth Choir, and Youth Group. My daughter doesn’t really have anyone she connects with at church on Wednesdays anyway, so I think it will be good in the long run. And there may be some weeks that they don’t have to be at rehearsal and can go to church after all.
I know I’m probably getting too far ahead of myself, trying to figure out what I’ll be doing while they are at rehearsals when they haven’t even finished their audition yet, but I can’t help myself. I like to have my routines in place and know what to expect. It’s the anxiety.
TIme to walk over and pick them up. I hope they had fun at the audition!
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