This year, we decided to subscribe to a theater series for children that will be held almost monthly in Pittsburgh. We want to expose The Peanut to more of the arts and especially to music since she loves her piano lessons.The fact that Junie B. Jones, The Musical was one of the performances? A huge bonus. The Peanut loooooooves Junie B.
It is also a way of forcing us to take a little mini-vacation together every so often, which we all need (but which Mr. ReddHedd especially needs these days because he is well and truly swamped). Funny how stress has a way of sneaking up on you over time without taking those little breaks, isn't it?
We always say we are going to do more of this sort of thing, but we never quite get around to it because we end up getting too tired to move much on the weekends.
Somehow, paying for tickets in advance is a much better movement incentive.
Yesterday, we got a brochure in the mail for the Arts Series that WVU will be doing this year. Holy moly, do they have some great stuff, too. The only problem for these performances is that a number of them are weekday performances that won't end until 9 pm or later -- and The Peanut is not at her best when she gets off her schedule. It really throws her for a loop and then some not to get enough sleep.
But I'm willing to risk that to expose her to a live performance, right before St. Patrick's Day, from The Chieftains.
I'll be on the phone shortly to try and get tickets for a Christmas concert by Vienna Boys' Choir.
Also, if I am very lucky because The Peanut would love this, for the touring company of Beauty and the Beast.
I wish we could do more of these shows, too -- they have some especially good musical performances including the Moscow Symphony Orchestra -- but, alas, the time of evening just will not work for us at this age just yet. Not with a 45 minute drive home added on top of the already late hour, anyway.
Looks like this year will be all about the theater. When we took her to see Annie
last year, I was worried she wouldn't be ready for a full performance or that it wouldn't be her cuppa tea just yet. But she sat on the edge of her seat from the moment the overture began and remained spellbound all the way through, only pausing for an intermission bathroom run and then dragging me back to our seats to catch the second act in fear that she would miss it. (Oh, hooray, our girlie likes musicals!)Don't you love it when something educational also turns out to be so fun?
(Photo via Thomas Hawk. Love this shot -- great color, so striking.)
2 comments:
That is wonderful.
The small trips will be great. I remember taking Sunday drives with the family, sis and me in the backseat. We would go to a historical marker, state museum, park, etc. I remember eating our packed lunch at a giant water wheel along side a state road, a stage coach stop, or at one of the original state capital buildings in Benicia, CA. These were not expensive, just time and gas.
The trips will be something Peanut will remember forever doing with the family. I do, 50+ years later.
I think we're going to have a very fun year -- between the theater/music event tickets we've managed to wangle and the long driving vacation at the beginning of summer, we'll be doing a lot together. But Fiona is at a stage where she needs it, so it is a perfect time to spend some quality time together before she becomes a teenager and doesn't want to be seen with us. *g*
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