The Ballet, another tooth and a holiday party......

Feel like the title leaves you humming the twelve days of Christmas..... that has been the last month..... The end of the week was a whirlwind of activity, I really enjoyed it though. Remember 22 days ago I stood in line for three hours to get tickets to the ballet; well we finally got to see the ballet. This is not any ballet it is the St. Petersburg Ballet performing the Nutcracker. I was so excited. Growing up my family alternated seeing The Nutcracker and A Christmas Carol at our local Theaters. I loved it, of course I loved the ballet still do. Between the nights we went to the symphony and the ballet I am so grateful to my parents I had those experiences. To this day when I sit at the ballet I feel transported to another world my heart feels alive I become part of the theater. It and the symphony are some of the few moments I am able to turn my mind off and truly live in the moment. I have tried where ever we have lived to take our kids to any type of theater or musical production to give them this same escape, to give them creative minds. Sometimes this is harder to accomplish, as we have lived in some very remote places. The kids have never been to the ballet, and to be able to take them to this was amazing. I love the Russian composers their music is so passionate and mover it is full of emotion and thought, it is impossible not to be captivated. To see the Russian ballet perform one of their own pieces and such a famous one....a once and a lifetime moment. I was so excited I could hardly wait until the 19th !!!!! Sam has never been to the ballet either so it was really fun to share this with him. Yes, I really took the twins to the ballet. The kids really enjoyed it too, I actually didn't say much to any of them I wanted to see their reactions to the ballet. Sam thinks that it was ok, but he will skip the next one :) T liked that it was about a nutcracker, a favorite of his. T also told me it made him sleepy. H said the best part was the great battle between the soldiers and the mouse king, and the music. H thinks the rest is just to girlie though. P & S enjoyed the show there was only one hairy moment where I thought we might loose it, but then the solos came and it was all better. Both P & S were mimicking the arm movements of the dancers on the car ride home so they must have liked something. It reminded me of the year we took the boys to New York City, and we took them to see the Chinese acrobats. H was the same age that the twins are now and I remember him trying to do acrobat stunts for at least a week. It was such a wonderful night. Another new experience for all of us we saw a ballet in Germany, a Russian ballet in Germany. Oh and more is to come on the holiday party and the missing tooth.........