Skip to main content

Hamilton

Today's gratitude post will focus on Hamilton because how can I write about anything else? The Broadway play was fantastic! We were able to attend at Eccles Theatre. There is just one funny story I have to tell. It was funny 10 minutes after it happened but quite disheartening at the time of discovery. Long story short, my kids LOVE Hamilton so I told Luke that if he could find us tickets where we could all sit together, I'd buy them. Well, he found them and I went to buy them and the kids felt a little sad that they couldn't see it with their father as honestly, he's the one that first introduced us to Hamilton. I knew that the price of tickets would preclude their father from taking them so I suggested we buy him a ticket and take him with us. We texted and asked him if he'd want to go and told him to grab a ticket for his wife Nicole.

He said he'd check with Nicole and let us know. We decided to hurry and grab the 5 before they sold out, knowing we could add 2 more if they decided to join. Luke put the 5 tickets in the cart and I gave him my credit card and we bought them. Later that night Mike texted and told us that they were in so I went to buy his tickets. I had told Luke to buy our 5 tickets for the 1 pm Sunday show so I bought Mike and Nicole's for that time as well right by us.

The tickets arrived in the mail a few days before and I opened the smaller envelope knowing it was Mike and Nicole's ticket and their time and date looked great so I gave them to Mike. Sunday morning, I pulled out our tickets to see where I should park and discovered that our showtime was the 6:30 pm show. My heart sank! I felt so stupid and sad and wondered how that could have happened. I put two and two together pretty quickly deducing Luke must have just bought tickets for the 6:30 show. I had to text Mike the news and tell the kids. Everyone handled it like a champ and I told myself that everything happens for a reason. And it worked out nice because we ended up being able to babysit the kid's little brother Leo (Mike and Nicole's son). He is a DOLL!

The play was AMAZING! I was in awe. Lin Manuel is brilliant! I was blown away by the talent. The storytelling, singing, and dancing was captivating. I got the goosebumps myriads of time and cried too. I love watching people crush their art. We were all so glad we went. I don't care that it cost more than my first car, it was worth every penny. #memories.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Holy Treason

I don’t know if you’re like me or not, but I was born into the one and only “true” religion of God. I spent my entire life studying and living the principles and teachings of my faith. I knew the doctrine, and I believed it to be true. Until I didn’t. The road to the unraveling of my faith is a rather long one—definitely another article for another day--but suffice it to say, I began studying other religions and realized that all of them contained beautiful truths. I felt as uplifted and inspired while reading their scriptures as I did reading mine. I understood why some referred to religion as a “faith culture” for I was now aware that had I been born and raised in a different religion, I’d have believed that religious tradition to be true. I came to see religions as merely vehicles leading us back to God. Surely God didn’t care whether his children drove jalopies or Jaguars so long as they were moving along the superhighway back to Him. Or could it be her? Or perhaps there wasn’t ju...
2 comments
Read more

Relationships

I've been thinking a bit about relationships. I'm seeing them differently than I've ever seen them before. First, I realize that relationships are created in our minds. What we think about our relationships defines them. If I think my daughter is ungrateful, I will see ingratitude in all her actions. If I tell myself my coworker is annoying, I will find him extremely so.  And so it goes. What we think about others creates how we relate to them. So why not think happy, positive, loving thoughts about the people we relate with? We absolutely have the power to create amazing relationships by changing the way we think about our relations. Second, I've been thinking about the importance of loving the people in our life for who they are, not for what we need them to be. People need freedom to be who they want to be. If you love someone, you don't try to change them. That isn't love. Love is accepting someone for who they are and where they are right now. Love know...
Post a Comment
Read more

Reinforcements and Revelations

Today was full of fun reinforcements and revelations. I belong to a private Facebook group of former Mormons and there is always interesting information being shared. I enjoy reading the experiences of other members and I find comfort in knowing I'm not alone. This weekend several members of the community shared posts about an email they have received from the church asking them to complete a survey on why they left the church. Here is what one member shared: Did anyone else receive a survey by email today from the church? I guess I’m still on their mass email list. Normally I would have just deleted it, but it said if I filled it out I would get a $10 Amazon gift card, so I decided to hurry and complete it. 😂 😜 It had some general factual questions, but then it asked some deep hard questions. Basically, it is trying to figure out who and why people are leaving the church and what they can do to prevent it from happening even more.  They are trying to see if t...
2 comments
Read more