Sound Of Music

As Many of you Know Marina is Brigetta in Sound of Music at Cardinal Stritch University & it is Opening TONIGHT!!! Yesterday I got invited to attend the Final Dress Rehearsal & she was FANTASTIC!!! Its overwhelming to think off all the late nights & hours driving & gallons of gas ~ but when you are watching your child, on stage, in the lights, saying words that you know everyone else in the audience is hanging on to, singing songs that you know & hold dear... nothing else matters & you just want to watch her over & over again! She really impressed me last night... never missing a word, a costume or an entrance & these kids have 7 costume changes!!!

Its even more special because 5 Years ago, when Marina was 3, she was enrolled in a Language Enriched Classroom because she barely talked. For a long time her favorite, and only, word was "DIGA!" Diga, Diga This & Diga, Diga That and she would throw temper tantrums and was just an unhappy child because she couldn't communicate (especially now as she is the sweet motherly one of the bunch). Through lots of work from teachers & parents alike she is a full fledged talker & those non talking days are a distant memory. Putting that into perspective, she WOWED the PANTS off me!

Couple all that with the fact that Mike & I both performed in Theater, at Stritch, and it turns it into a nostalgic & warm fuzzy spot for us.

All in All ~ Proudest momma in the theater!