Pizza, Breadsticks and Tantrums...Let It Go!

Recently, us mamas took our “big kids” out on a special date night and left the babies and dads’ at home to fend for themselves. What night out isn’t complete with a quick swing by Target to grab some necessities, you know, bread, cereal, coffee, socks and Crayola bath paint from the dollar section, of course gotta check out the Valentines candy and grab one of the super cute new shirts they put out for spring!

Before the show, we went to Pizza Hut and loaded the kiddos up on pizza, breadsticks and lemonade hoping they wouldn’t ask for sweets when we got to the performance of Frozen Jr. hosted by the Children's Performing Arts. But we were wrong...the first words were “Moooooom, I want skittles, I want a sucker, I want chips.” Seriously!

We found our seats and waited for the performance. My son has never been to a play before, so I was trying to explain to him what this was about. He seemed super excited, and I was super excited for him as I love introducing him to new things. He had the biggest smile on his face, when the auditorium went dark and the performance began.

About half way through the first half, my son was starting to get squirmy and I started to sweat because I knew he needed to burn off some energy. He starts to squirm more and more and of course during a super quiet part of the show, he decides that it’s the right time, to say that he's bored out loud.

I. Was. Embarrassed.

You know once you get a glare from a grandparent in the audience that it’s time to head out. I grab our jackets, gave Helena “the look” that we are leaving, but for some miraculous reason, he regained interest for the last five minutes of the first half….or…. It may have been that I bribed him with skittles, suckers and chips he requested earlier. Phew….diverted that tantrum!

During intermission, we both filled our kids up with sugar and they were happy, or so we thought. Little miss Scarlett didn’t like that her cotton candy tasted like mint, so

we had our own little Elsa in distress.

With sugar-filled candy in our hands we head back into the auditorium, even our very own Elsa was happy again.

The show was awesome, and all of the kids did such a great job on stage. They made their families proud! The volunteers put in over 10,000 volunteer hours to make it all happen, wow! AMAZING!

Being mamas, both Helena and I agree that hearing our kiddos laugh is always the best part of anything we do with them and even makes our tantrum diversions and Elsa in distress moments worth taking them out in public again, but next time, maybe we runaway without them.

I think the date night with the big kids was a success!

| Tressa |