All Growed Up!
Chase was in a one act play tonight. And last night. And will be tomorrow night. He had a lot of lines to learn and he learned 'em well! I am very proud of him. And actually proud of Hunter for rehearsing lines with him. What a great brother! I want to videotape him tomorrow night, but then, it's just not the same on video. And I don't have a tripod. But it would be a cool thing to show to his children one day.
But on another note, it was awesome to watch other kids in the plays, too. Several that I knew when they were much younger, some when they were just babies. Some of the kids we knew from our homeschooling days (the director of Chase's play for one), some from our days at Evergreen Community Charter School (one actor, one stage manager). Two of them almost as tall as Chase. One was the little brother of a classmate and soccer teammate of Evan's. One, the one I remember as a nursing baby, is also the son of one of the people I worked for last year and Lee knows from all of the Father Kid Camping Days. The world feels so small at times.
It's really strange to think about how my youngest child is 18 when I think about who I was and what I was doing when I was 18. I turned 18 when I was a Freshman at Appalachian State. I was in a play my senior year of high school, but had nowhere near the lines Chase did tonight. The classmate of mine who played the lead in my play "Stage Door" (Chase's one act tonight was called "The Open Door"....funny) has done TV shows and is still doing TV shows. Some of these kids we saw tonight might wind up on the TV or movie screen someday, who knows?
So, let's see.....thirty years from now will Chase be watching one of his children on the stage? Will I be watching one on stage? I wonder just how different the world will be in thirty more years. I'll be 78 if I'm still alive. Most likely, my parents who were there tonight, won't be there. That's another strange thought. To imagine a time when my parents won't be around anymore. I will sure miss them. But I'm not going to go there right now. Too sad a thought.
On a much happier note, my parents will celebrate their 50th wedding Anniversary next month. Yay for them!
