Meghan in Florida Today

They had a reporter at the BSYO kick off this past Saturday. More than 100 students participated and Meghan managed to get on photo posted on the site. This is the link for Meghan's BSYO photo . Meghan is in photo number 7.

BSYO Article in The Sun

An article about the BSYO was printed in The Sun which is a local newspaper. Meghan is in the strings ensemble and is a third grader.

Happy Mothers Day

Meghan had her first performance on violin at the King Center. While she has performed her dance recitals at the the King Center, this was a first for playing her violin and there was enough light for her to see the audience from the stage. She claims that she cannot see the audience at all when they are onstage with the dance recital which is possible with the light off in the seating area and the stage lights shining on the stage. Her group performed very well indeed. Very impressive for a group of elementary and middle school students. The Brevard Symphony Youth Orchestra (BSYO) has three level of groups. Meghan is in the strings ensemble. The next group up is Concert Orchestra which seems to made up of mostly junior high and high school and the group after that is Symphony Orchestra consist of all high school age students.

For those of you unfamiliar with the King Center it is where josh Groban, Donna Summer, Liza Manelli, Willie Nelson, Cyndi Lauper, Tony Bennett and many others have performed here in the Melbourne area. It is quite an honor and impressive to the kids to get to perform at this location.

I must say that it was enjoyable way to spend Mothers Day. I watched my daughter perform on a large stage for an audience that probably number in the hundreds for the first time with her violin. She appeared very poised and come when she came on stage - no small feat for an nine year old regardless of having danced on this same stage the previous 2 years with her dance classes. This is one of those moments that you do not wish to forget.

For dinner, we all went out to eat Olive Garden which was a disappointment for Meghan. She thought for sure we would choose her favorite and go to Red Lobster; however, we will be going there for Meghan's dance recital dinner with Mamoo, Papoo, Mawmaw and Pawpaw so we decide to go somewhere different.

Happy Mothers Day to all the moms out there!!!!! I hope you spent it in an enjoyable way with quality time spent with your kids or phone calls from your kids.

What A Day

Alan is having inventory tonight. Meghan and I went to his store so I could view the counters that came from the inventory service because our companies use the same inventory service. Since my store inventoried four weeks ago and had some really bad counters, I went to check and see if any those individuals showed up at his inventory.

The end of Janurary I began taking an adult dance class at Meghan's dance studio. Tonight was the third class. The actual instructor was out and her friend did the class tonight. Because she did not have all the music she did some of our regular routinues but did some other things. I will probably feel the difference in the morning. The cool thing was that she had things that we can do at home to any kind of music at home on our own if we want. The best part of the class is when we laugh together over these "girls" leading the class tell us to let everything jiggle. Nothing needs encouragement to jiggle - it can do that quite well on its own. The first night Meghan hung out in the studio with us and she came out huffing and puffing. My goal in taking the class is to help the weight that has been steadily coming off since my hysterectomy. I am currently hovering between 2 sizes, but I would like to drop even more if possible. This class comes at the end of my day and every Thursday is truck day.

Meghan continues to be very active. She will be adding the county youth orchestra to her resume on Monday the 11th. Alan and I are very proud and hope that it will prove to be a good experience for her. It appears that she will bypass the audition since the group is part way through the year.