Today was a busy one, the big school festival is on Saturday, and today we distributed all the tickets and t-shirts to the students and teachers , it was also Zachery's first choir performance. I arrived at the school early to help with all the festival prep, I planned to skip his 8:30 AM performance, intended mainly for students, not parents, and attend his 1:45 and 7:00 PM ones. Well I had to drop off Zachery's choir attire before getting to work on festival stuff and, needless to say, if you find yourself in a room full of 10 year olds in formal wear you will end up buttoning a lot of collars and sleeves and fastening countless bowties! Eventually I managed to escape the dressing area, but I didn't get far enough because at 8:30 I caught a glimpse of Zachery up there on stage, front and center, singing his heart out with the rest of the choir! I was drawn to the room like a moth to a flame and found myself watching the performance anyway...and bawling through the whole thing! I don't know if it was the fact that Zach looked so grown up in his bow tie and tuxedo shirt, or because my once shy child was standing in the front row singing for a roomful of people, or maybe it was the touching songs they sang....but boy did I cry. Yep, I'm "that" mom...the weepy one who claps too loud and takes too many pictures. Here are some of them!
