Week From Hell Part II
There are two times during the year that we in the Binger household refer to as THE WEEKS FROM HELL. The first comes in early May, when Iris' dance school puts on its year end performance. The second is now, this being Nutcracker week.
Iris had a tech rehearsal on Monday night, has a dress rehearsal tonight, two performances Thursday, two on Friday and one on Saturday. The poor girl will be totally exhausted.
My role is to keep her plied with nourishment, tell her how great she's doing, and be one of the quick change moms for a couple of the performances. My choice of volunteer position is rather clever, if I do say so myself. I learned quite a number of years ago how much I hate helping out in the change rooms; the stressed out teachers and dancers in tears because they've forgotten their shoes were all too much for me. But a quick change mom gets to stand in the wings away from all that, watch the performance, and just help the dancers as they run backstage to whip off one costume and jump into another one. It'll be busy - Iris, for instance, has six quick changes and a number of other dancers have almost as many. But it should be quite fun.
Then on Thursday night, all of us Bingers will have a chance to watch from the audience. Alan never used to want go to, but now he seems to enjoy it. I think it's all those young female bodies in skimpy costumes!
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