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ditions for a spring play—Beauty and the Beast of course. My older daughter Hanna tried out and was given a narrator part as well as a spot in the chorus. So she’s been having weekly practices for several weeks now, and is about to move into bi-weekly practices until the performance in the middle of April. But she is very excited, and now even claims that her favorite character is no longer Lumiere, but Narrator number 4!
It’s probably a good thing that the “tale as old as time” is one of my top three Disney princess movies, because we have been bombarded with it lately, and will continue to be for at least another month and a half! It all started right before Christmas break, when the music teacher at my girls’ school announced that she would be holding au-
Hanna also had a birthday recently, and she wanted to go to the Be Our Guest restaurant at Walt Disney World. We had eaten there once before, but she wanted to go again when she could dictate that we sit in the West Wing dining room. We couldn’t get in on her birthday weekend, but we were able to get a reservation a few weeks later. Then later in the month, Haylee, Hanna and I all participated in the Disney Princess Half Marathon weekend, and wouldn’t you know it—this year’s theme was Beauty and the Beast. All three of us ran the 5K, Hanna and I ran the 10K, and I ran the Half Marathon,
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primarily because I wanted the beautiful enchanted rose medal. And finally of course, the long-anticipated live action movie is being released this month, something that all the girls in my house have been looking forward to for months now. And now that it’s getting close, even two of the three guys in the house are at least a little bit excited. The one exception is my oldest, David, who still insists that the story just glamorizes Stockholm Syndrome. David also likes to focus on the plot inconsistencies— who would actually place a potentially lifelong curse on an 11-year-old child? And how is Chip so young ten years into the curse? And where in the world did Belle even get the yellow dress? But the rest of us can look past those things and enjoy a good story demonstrating that beauty is found not in a yellow dress, but in a person’s heart. And there is also some really good music to go along with it! Until next time,
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