Winter/Spring 2020
Oh my. I’m so far behind schedule I’ve started lumping entire seasons together.
Well, Christmas happened.
Soon after the holidays, Anna jumped right into daily rehearsals for her school’s production of Les Miserables. Being a junior and not a senior, she didn’t stand much of a chance at snagging one of the leads. But she was pleased as punch to have a solo in “At the End of the Day”.
Photography was not allowed during the production but I managed to sneak into one or two dress rehearsals and snap a shot or two.
The production was WAY beyond a typical high school’s and brought me to tears. Anna literally looked like an angel in the final number and sounded like angel too, when her high soprano sailed into the heavens as she sang, “tomorrow comes”.
Although the kids got all the glory, the parents were no slackers either as we all got roped into one thing or another from building the set to arranging/mending costumes to heading up the dinner. I was in charge of the dessert auction-which is a HUGE fundraiser for the choir department. So no pressure.
Let’s just say I was glad when it was over.
I moved right from that into my second year of heading up our elementary school’s Art Night. With the help of some amazing volunteers, it went off without a hitch and thank the heavens, we managed to pull it off less than a week before the first case of coronavirus was diagnosed in the state of Idaho. Phew.
