Real Men Wear Tights!

On Sunday the kids and I were heading to church in El Paso.  The LDS church has a choir show for Christmas every year and my mother enjoys it.  In the car I broached the idea of Harmon doing a jazz class and he scoffed at me.  "Mommy, only girls dance".  Oh no he didn't!!!  So that is how 5 hours later he ended up here...

It just happened to be the Russian Ballet was in El Paso and so after church I took my mommy and the kids to the Plaza and we all attended the ballet.  It wasn't just Harm's comment that made me so impulsive.  Because of my father's stroke my mother hardly gets out of the house and it had been decades since she had been to the rest theater.  At the box office I shared with the lady why we were attending so last minute (it was just starting when I got there to buy tickets) and so she discounted the tickets for us and got us unsold orchestra tickets.

To be honest the kids struggled a little during the second half but they did wonderfully.  I remember as a child my parents used to take me just like I took them and I used to get a little anxious too.  Still they loved the show!  My mother got out of the house for something very special and my boys learned male dancing is "AWESOME" (as quoted by Harmon).

The best part of it though was after the show we met a lot of the cast and they all asked little Rachey if she was going to be Clara one day.  She said "No, I want to be the Rat King!"