A Star is Born

My daughter is destined for a life in the theater. She's good, too. The other day she was giving a performance, for me, in her room. She did a scene from Harry Potter that had me visualizing the scene from the movie, it was that good. I was impressed until I realized it was from the beginning of "Goblet of Fire." She's not allowed to watch Goblet of Fire, and it had me asking her when it is she saw that scene. Answer: I fell asleep watching it, and the DVD loops. She was in my room (as usual for the middle of the night) when it started playing. "All by itself, mama! I didn't touch it!" (Fortunately, she says I woke up and turned it off shortly after the scene where Hermione wakes up Harry and Ron, at The Burrow.) I digress ... I think I was talking about my daughter's future in the theater...I stress theater, not TV. TV doesn't get the immediate applause and love that she seems to crave, after a performance. She sings and dances, too. I should probably be more specific and say Music Theater. Just yesterday she was jumping up and down on the couch, singing about going down to the river to pray. Too bad I'm not the type to start auditioning her now. I'm sure I'm somehow ruining a good start to a promising child star career. That rarely ends well - or so I've heard ... I'd rather she wait until after college.

When she becomes amazingly successful, I promise to live with total and complete vicariousness. (is that a word??)

Activity: Glue, glue, glue. Especially glitter glue. I let my daughter use the tube of glue, for my son I put a small dab on a q-tip. They have fun coloring animal shapes that I've drawn and cut out with the glue.