{"id":16973,"date":"2018-06-02T19:28:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T00:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=16973"},"modified":"2018-06-02T19:37:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T00:37:48","slug":"eve-and-her-audition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=16973","title":{"rendered":"Eve and her audition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eve auditioned for Matilda today.\u00a0 It was a roller coaster 24hours.\u00a0 Shortly after deciding to do it<\/a>, Eve had the lines memorized and was 100% confident in herself.\u00a0 She had no need to practice, no need to sing in front of people, and no need for voice coaching.\u00a0 She was good.\u00a0 I was nervous (for her).\u00a0 I encouraged her to talk to the 4th grade teacher who runs the school drama club.\u00a0 She eventually agreed and by the time we were able to coordinate schedules it was this past Thursday, just two days before the audition.\u00a0 Guess what?\u00a0 The teacher told her she wasn’t ready at all.\u00a0 Surprise.\u00a0 One of the songs she was planning to sing is Hard Knock Life, from Annie, and it turns out the version she had been rehearsing with on Pandora was slightly different than the theater version we had the sheet music for.\u00a0 That threw a HUGE crimp her her plan, and confidence.\u00a0 Friday night she was a wreck.\u00a0 Tears, anger (at the music), and frustration (at the world).\u00a0 We had a long talk about it and she eventually went to bed and passed out.\u00a0 BTW – Eve is always tired on Friday afternoons and it’s never really a good time to push her.\u00a0 Saturday morning came and we had another chat.\u00a0 She insisted she wanted to audition and even (kind of) owned her mistakes.\u00a0 We talked a lot about confidence and “fake it ’till you make it” and her thoughts on acting, and lots of other stuff.\u00a0 She said practicing was making her nervous and she just wanted to go in and do it.\u00a0 She listened to the music (on the app with the sheet music) several times and declared herself ready.\u00a0 I went to shower and when I came back I found her dressed and ready. She was wearing sweats and a print t-shirt, so I suggested, tentatively, that she might want to wear something a tiny bit nicer. Much to my surprise, she agreed and put on a dress!!<\/p>\n

We went out to lunch at Panera Bread because this mother knows her daughter is always more positive when she is well fed and because I wanted to make it a fun day for her.\u00a0 We had lunch and got to the audition with plenty of time. In fact, we had enough time to take a walk around the block and just be relaxed.<\/p>\n

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She looks relaxed, right? :)<\/p><\/div>\n

When it was her turn she went in and gave it a go.\u00a0 She knows the director from when she did the Shakespeare in School<\/a> program.\u00a0 The guy is very nice and very positive.\u00a0 He was happy to see her and made her feel comfortable.\u00a0She did make one mistake during her Annie song, but he stopped her and had her start again and she did it right.\u00a0 He gave her lots of verbal praise at the end and even gave me a hug, much to my surprise.\u00a0 Maybe that means she did well?<\/p>\n

Truthfully, I don’t care if she goes on.\u00a0 I’m just so proud that she stuck with it, through the hard times, and chose to get herself to that audition.\u00a0 She was nervous, she had all the feels, and she CHOSE to get herself there and audition anyway, despite the nerves.\u00a0 That is a big step for her.\u00a0 <3<\/p>\n

Afterwards we went grocery shopping.\u00a0 Right back to life as usual. :)<\/p>\n

On another Eve note, last weekend she made a scavenger hunt for me.\u00a0 It was very silly. I asked if Lex could come too, because I didn’t feel like wandering around outside by myself trying to figure out her clues.\u00a0 She said ok so Lex and I followed her marker-on-cardboard clues and had fun.\u00a0 The final clue was a secret knock, which she answered, and we found the “treasure.”<\/p>\n

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When she first asked me to do the treasure hunt and was all secret about the treasure, I reminded her that I had just eaten breakfast and wasn’t ready for cake. I had a feeling her “treasure” was birthday cake. So we got back and discovered cake for Lex and pb&j on english muffin for me. LOL.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The clues.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Arlo was sad that there was no treasure for him.<\/p><\/div>\n

She is an amazing girl, even with all the ups and downs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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