Do you have everything...

That's the question I asked my daughters, Olivia and Sophia as we were heading out the door this morning. It's "CULMINATION" day. No! It's not a recital, don't utter such a common word. It's a culmination.... it's a production..... and at this very moment it's a pain in the you know what! Two, no, three days of dress rehearsals, and then three actual performances,Costumes everywhere, tights, leotards, pointe shoes, canvas shoes, character shoes, leather ballet slippers,jazz shoes, make up, headpieces, hair pins, nets(for the bun heads) any ballerinas out there, you know the drill.Mothers of ballerinas, you know what I'm talking about. Early mornings, late nights and take out, costume alterations, I don't sew, not a good thing!!! Anyway ,back to that question.. do you have everything? YES!! Do you have all your costumes, hair stuff and everything else? YES, YES!!! was their reply. That was at 9:30 this morning, at approximately,11:45 this morning (after dropping them off for the afternoon show, and yes they have to be there 3 hours before the show oh , sorry, CULMINATION)I find a pair of black socks that go to a jazz costume, Surprise!!!!! You didn't have everything,honey,(that would be Olivia, Sophia did have everything). For a brief moment I thought about not bringing her the socks, teaching her a lesson in responsibility,but then I got a visual of the panic and anxiety she would be having when she went to put on that really cool jazz costume and didn't have the socks. Yeah, that was enough for me. Daddy to the rescue, socks are in route as I write, just in time for that 1:00 performance, after all, the show, I mean CULMINATION must go on.

All kidding aside, the kids, teachers and everyone involved, really work their butts off and it is always a beautiful show, I mean, CULMINATION. We will be enjoying their hard work tonight at the 6:00 performance. I'll try to post some pictures after the Sunday performance.