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concert weekend
Dec. 5th, 2016 09:41 pm Have survived the dance school end-of-year concert weekend for another year. This year, it was also coupled with youngest's choir end of year concerts. Dress rehearsals for the dance on Saturday, starting at 9:40am for middlest and 10:15 am for youngest; end of dress rehearsal was 3pm. Need to work out how to deal with conflicting issues for next year - kids are neither supposed to go outside, nor eat inside, and as a result middlest had not eaten in hours, and fainted on stage towards the end of the dress rehearsal. A little disturbing!
Eldest, artisanat, and I attended the late afternoon performance - everything looked good, although I note that middlest was being quite cautious in some of the positioning, particularly for the piece with the afore-mentioned fainting.
I was then back stage on Sunday for the afternoon performance. Which was sadly, at exactly the same time one of youngest's concerts was, so they went to the dance concert, and not the choir concert. From there, headed to the Perth Concert Hall, to drop youngest off for the prep for the last of the concerts. I wandered up the street to sit at a Dome coffee shop. Sadly, they have a whole *two* gluten free items available - chicken soup, and almond and orange cake. Over the course of an hour or so had both, sharing the latter with artisanat, after he met me in town.
Relearnt about nausea as a warning for 'are you breathing properly'. Timing was such that I should have been taking my preventer at about the point that I started feeling quite nauseous (more so as I ate more of the food, which didn't make sense given the sensation of 'haven't eaten enough' nausea). Walked back to the car (where my rescue inhaler was. I'm sure I left the house with one in my bag, but couldn't find it. There were, sadly, not two in the car, so I've put it somewhere else), felt much better after a couple of lungfuls of ventolin. Then headed up town to meet up with ariaflame, who was coming along to the concert.
Seats for this concert - D rw, but up against the wall. Fortunately, on the side that youngest spent most of their time on. Interesting that in the performing choirs, where there must be 12 y olds, very hard to spot any that look that young.
Eldest, artisanat, and I attended the late afternoon performance - everything looked good, although I note that middlest was being quite cautious in some of the positioning, particularly for the piece with the afore-mentioned fainting.
I was then back stage on Sunday for the afternoon performance. Which was sadly, at exactly the same time one of youngest's concerts was, so they went to the dance concert, and not the choir concert. From there, headed to the Perth Concert Hall, to drop youngest off for the prep for the last of the concerts. I wandered up the street to sit at a Dome coffee shop. Sadly, they have a whole *two* gluten free items available - chicken soup, and almond and orange cake. Over the course of an hour or so had both, sharing the latter with artisanat, after he met me in town.
Relearnt about nausea as a warning for 'are you breathing properly'. Timing was such that I should have been taking my preventer at about the point that I started feeling quite nauseous (more so as I ate more of the food, which didn't make sense given the sensation of 'haven't eaten enough' nausea). Walked back to the car (where my rescue inhaler was. I'm sure I left the house with one in my bag, but couldn't find it. There were, sadly, not two in the car, so I've put it somewhere else), felt much better after a couple of lungfuls of ventolin. Then headed up town to meet up with ariaflame, who was coming along to the concert.
Seats for this concert - D rw, but up against the wall. Fortunately, on the side that youngest spent most of their time on. Interesting that in the performing choirs, where there must be 12 y olds, very hard to spot any that look that young.
