September 7, 2008

• Our Day

  Church this morning was amazing. I love Element so much.

   

  Rosie’s Nutcracker audition went very well. She was the youngest in her
  group, which was 13 and up and the ages went all the way from her up to a
  27-year-old professional dance teacher. She did very well and has four parts
  between the two performances (Cast A for Matinee and Cast B for Evening, so the
  girls get some parts in one and different parts in the other). She will be
  playing one of the older Clara’s friends, the Colombine Doll (a solo where she
  comes out of the box, gets wound up, and dances alone for a bit before winding
  down and being carried back to the box), she is in the Arabian Dance, and she’s
  in the Waltz of the Flowers. She’s pretty excited.

   

  It was amazing reconnecting with Rosie’s teacher, Patricia. We all went out
  to Panera together afterward to catch up. It had been four years since Trish saw
  Rosie and she was blown away at how much she has grown up. Trish’s 80-year-old
  mother, who speaks only Italian, fell in love with my Italian husband (who
  speaks absolutely zilch Italian) because she says he is a Caballiero (or
  something like that, meaning “gentleman”). I told her he has always been a
  gentleman since the day I met him, and that I was going to have to keep my eye
  on her since she might be inclined to steal him. After Trish translated what I
  said, she burst into raucous laughter and spouted something in Italian about
  wanting to see us again…she searched her mind for the English, then shouted,
  “SOON! Erm…Veddy, VEDDY SOON!”

  I didn’t blog about yesterday’s dance company audition, but it was awesome, too.

  So. Two days, two auditions, and both went very well.

  Did I mention that we put a deposit down on a house yesterday?

   

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