not necessarily in this order

  Sometimes, it’s the week after a run of busy weeks that gets you…..   Lil Momma’s Show Recap To   recap the reason for the recap, Lil Momma was fighting a mighty case of the sads after New Year’s. Her musical theater school had an audition-only bonus show that rehearsed on the weekends that LM went back and forth about auditioning for. She finally decided to go for it and got in! (Only 20/60 kids got in and she was 1 of only 3 kids not on the competition team who did….)   Things got pretty hectic in the week or so before the show and with her other extracurriculars, LM had a run of 12 straight days without a break. Between dress and tech rehearsals for this production of  Dear Edwina , her regularly scheduled dance classes 3x a week, and bonus dance for her competition duo, we were doing our best to focus on recovery at home (hydration, fueling, sleep).    What’s Dear Edwina about?”  you may be asking… Well, per  Wikipedia : “ Dear Edwina ...

    One  This week has been oof. I don’t know if it was  residual tired from the time change, a wild work week where I had to be in office an extra day (and extra early) to co-lead a workshop, or just a really full brain and not enough sleep. Or, all 3?   Two  To jump back a week, Lil Momma and I saw  Frozen  the musical  at a theater in Rhode Island last Friday night. She loved, loved, loved it! I went in thinking I would be lukewarm about it, but ended up really enjoying how they translated it to the stage – and, SVEN WAS THE COOLEST THING EVER!!! Next season, this theater has a handful of shows that LM, the Mr. and I would all really enjoy and I’m hoping to lean into experience presents and keep this going. Three  We did have one  awkward   theater   experience , though, that keep haunting me. LM and I were spread out a bit because our friends who were supposed to join us could not, so I was on the aisle and LM was spac...

Lil Momma wins again Lil Momma does a lot of activities;  she’s better when she’s busy . One of those are voice lessons that she takes those at the school where she does musical theater classes.  Each year, there’s a voice recital. I’m all about her picking her songs (with her teacher!!) and driving this experience; however, after 3 months of listening to Taylor Swift’s  15  sung by an 8 year old over and over and over, I had a moment.  I asked that Taylor Swift be removed from the voice lesson list  and that she sing at least 1 showtune (we take these to work on her musical theater skills!). This led to a disaster of a recital last spring where she sang a lovely version of the opening song from Tangled and  then hate sang Kacey Musgrave’s  Rainbow  at me . Luckily, this year her teacher has her focused only on showtunes and I’m out of the song picking mix.  I thought everything was ok… Cut to me taking LM to piano lessons this week. ...