Nutcracker

This year my daughter participated in a musical in mid November so she did not perform in the Nutcracker.  This did not stop us from going heading to the closest performance on Sunday.  It was so much easier to sit in the audience and watch as a spectator than it was to watch as the the parent of a dancer.  Performance week is always exhausting due to countless practices, lack of sleep and eating fast food. This year our dance teacher's daughter played the part of Clara and her niece was a baby sheep and a mouse.  Two other local teens had major roles.   We ran into lots of local people at the theater.  It was an absolutely beautiful production.  The Nutcracker has been a Christmas tradition in our family for the last ten years.   My dear little dancer cannot wait for tryouts for next year.  I guess we will be making the long drive to weekend practices- all worth it to be part of such a beautiful production.