Emily's chorus concert is tonight at 7pm. She came home with a note on Friday, reminding us of what she is supposed to wear (black skirt or pants and a white blouse) and also with the details of how the students will be dismissed to their parents. Basically, when the students are done with their portion of the performance (this is also the band concert) they will be dismissed from the cafeteria at the end of the entire show. The emphasis on staying until the end of the show was evident in many parts of the letter (Please make sure to arrive on time and stay in the cafeteria until the end of the show, your parents will dismiss you at the end of the show etc). I understand the mentality behind it...for those who perform first, they have a full audience and if people leave when their performer is done, those at the end of the show have barely anyone there. It's not really fair and I feel bad, but, honestly, I have a three year old. The show doesn't start until 7pm. She doesn't nap anymore. My point? Keeping a three year old quiet and happy at 7 pm, for an extended period of time, it's just not going to happen, unless by some miracle of God, I can get her to nap today. So, unless we have to stay until the end because we have just the kind of luck that would make Emily's group the very last performance of the evening, we are leaving when she is done with her thing. It may not be fair to have an empty audience at the end of the show, but how fair will it be to have an unhappy three year old disturbing the show?
(You all of course realize that Julia is usually not a concern when it comes to this type of thing as I am usually able to distract her or find some way of keeping her entertained and happy, but it's just annoying to me that there was such a stress put on staying until the end of the show).
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