Sometimes I get frustrated with the media, TV and the lack of good entertainment options available to children these days. We see nearly all the producations at our local children’s theatre, all based on good classic literature. But I have never been a mom to jump at the chance to take my kids to see the Wiggles, or Dora or even the circus (which I think is just wrong and cruel to animals). Once I took them to a Justin Roberts concert that took place our local botanical gardens. Kids entertainment at the library, I’m all over. Lets go!
I have wonderful memories of going downtown to the Fox Theater in Atlanta to see Annie as child, the Nutcracker and even Mary Poppings.
Naturally, I was happy when my girls asked about the poster hanging downtown at our historic Tennessee Theatre, advertising Mary Poppings the hit broadway musical. Then I said yikes at the ticket prices. And then I said we have to do it anyway. And we did. And it was great.
Now I’m hoping I can hold off my 8-year-old’s request to see One Direction in concert this summer. Because it’s NOT HAPPENING. Not for a few years at least. I was in sixth grade when I saw my first concert. It was Whitney Houston and the hit song was I want to Dance with Someone.
But a classic like Mary Poppings, YES we can do that.
The girls were very excited to go. They requested to wear their pearls that were gifts to them as babies (and rarely worn) and special charm bracelets. My friend next door joked after we built the girls’ bathroom upstairs that we would be up there getting our girls ready for prom one day. Actually, they were all up there getting their hair done for Mary Poppings.
YES it was a sweet time, an afternoon with just my big girls. They make my heart smile. 
I think I saw that same Annie tour at the Fox when I was little, too! Your girls are growing up fast – and are so so pretty! xoxoxo
Thanks Chrissy. I had the miniature Annie doll, and the blue Daddy Warbucks car when I was a kid too. They are still around, with the Annie soundtrack record. My oldest plays with the doll all the time. We used to watch the movie. But now, I’ve realized really how inappropriate Miss. Hannigan is in the movie. Oh my! The 80’s.