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“The sun’ll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There’ll be sun!”

Lauren has been walking around singing this song for days.  Her school is putting on a production of “Annie” and she tried out for the lead role of Annie on Tuesday.

She has a pretty singing voice and good vocal range, so she made it to callbacks yesterday.

There is just one problem.  The production is the weekend before Thanksgiving.  The weekend we were leaving on a weeklong vacation to the Bahamas for Thanksgiving with my boyfriend’s family.  There are 12 of us going – four families in total.  

They texted me from school to ask the dates we were going to be gone.  When Lauren found out they were the same, she told her babysitter that she didn’t want to go to the Bahamas and made a few comments that “It really stinks!” but put on a smile and made the best of it.  She was going to work on the set and costume design and the dance teacher told her she’d give her a bigger role in the performance for the after-school dance class she was taking.

When I talked to her, she said she was happy and that she heard that if you got the part of Annie, then you had “no life” for the next few months because of practice every night after school.

I told her that if she got the chance to be Annie, that was much more important than vacation and that we would leave for the Bahamas after her performances.  She kept saying that she was excited to work on the set, but when we kept asking, she finally admitted that she really wanted the part.

I emailed her teachers and told them that if she were chosen for the lead, then we would gladly change our vacation plans.

I really want her to get the part.  How exciting to have the lead in the entire school production at 10 years old.  And it’s “Annie!”  

But I also don’t want to miss the majority of our vacation.  I already have to bring the kids home the day before Thanksgiving because they are at their Dad’s this year.  

And as soon as I have that thought, the next one that follows is “I suck!”

It’s a struggle between what I want for her and what I want for me.  Because mostly what I want for me is that she gets what she wants.  But there is a small part of me that is being selfish and wants what I want and that makes me feel like the worst mother on the planet.  

We find out after school today if she got the part.  If she’s Annie…we stay.  If not, she helps make amazing costumes and sets and we go.

And I will be thrilled with the outcome, whichever one it is. (*smile*)

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