A good day

I just came from a play where two young actors blew the audience away!

Well..maybe I'm exagerating a little bit since both actors are related to me, heh.

For the past 6 weeks my little nephew and niece have been taking acting classes and today was the completion of the course with a special play featuring disney songs which was very nice.

The kids were great, Jonathan was a bit nervous, probably because today is also his birthday (he is 11 now). He is a bit slow, to me he is special; to society he is mentally challenged...I can't see it that way.

Their mother was there, and I noticed she took more pictures of Erika than Jonathan, it's well known in the family that she and her family preffer to spend more time with my niece rather than my nephew. It sickens me. Divorce sometimes is the right thing for a couple and this time it was the right thing however when kids are involved...they end up paying emotionally.

Well, back to the show.

My little 6yr old niece did pretty good, until the end when she was looking more toward her teacher behind the curtains on the side of the stage instead of looking ahead toward the audience. She will improve with time, their father has decided to enroll them again.

I had the honor of taking pictures of the show with my digital camera. I may post some here.

The production also included Jennifer, the daughter of Barry who is one of my wife's closest friends.

Afterwards everyone was supposed to go out to eat but I was not comfortable with the kids' mother so I said I didn't feel good and was driven home.
This was planned ahead of time, everyone in our house (and Barry's family) except the kids of course knew I would not be going.

But, I had a good day.