Charlie Brown Musical Junior Year from left to right is Peppermint Patty, Charlie Brown, Snoopy {me!}, Lucy, Linus w/ the blanket, and Schroeder
This past weekend I went to my sister's high school graduation. the walls of my high school seemed like strangers to me. my locker was gone. the cafeteria was completely different. my band room was gone... gone. just completely gone with some other building partially covering the spot where it use to be. so many of my high school memories where in that room...or I guess rooms would be more accurate. maybe you didn't know this about me but in high school I was a nerd drama club president singer of the National Anthem, pretend player of the piccolo, drum line groupie, I say nerd proudly drama club, chorus, band, musicals, plays I was all about it we had our own world in high school it's not like we were staring at the athletic kids in school thinking why can't that be me???? my friends were interesting and different. they enjoyed new things, and music, and debating, the band room was our Friend's coffee house, if you will that was the place where I ate lunch, spent my study halls, became best friends with my high school boyfriend... it makes me sad to think that the place where I first heard Les Mis is just gone
but it got me thinking about Charlie my baby, not the comic book character picture above : )
We come from a small town soon we will live in an even smaller town sports are everything my husband was kind of a high school sports stud football, basketball, track, he played them all everyone keeps on trying to predict what sports Charlie is going to play but I just stay quiet and let them speculate but inside sometimes I think what if she takes after me?!? will people be disappointed or try to change her mind because I am just one person how much influence will I really have and I don't want to be the mom forcing her own likes on her child but deep down part of me wants her to be a nerd like me I think most parents want that at least a little bit, deep down inside and nerds are strong they learn to be different and to be ok with that nerdy, never scared. that's my motto {stolen from my sister} nerds tend to wait on the more adult things like sex and drinking it's a little more sheltered existence nerds more prone to nights of playing Super Smash Brothers and watching old episodes of SNL then breaking curfew or other kinds of debauchery I think what I want most for Charlie to know is that it's ok whatever she chooses to be it will be ok that high school is just one part of life nerd or athlete it doesn't really matter I just want her to be a good person to treat people, even those different then her, with kindness and respect and if she just so happens to do so while singing Annie then that's just a bonus
*This is a story for those of you who went to high school with me & ryan:
One day I was looking for something in my basement when I came across something unusual. It was a large wooden bat. It was from the Charlie Brown musical which was especially peculiar because Ryan didn't even see the musical in high school {yeah he was one of those that got someone else to sign his program for the extra credit- YES THEY GAVE EXTRA CREDIT TO SEE PLAYS AND MUSICALS- don't even get me started on that one. Give me some freakin' extra credit to watch a freakin' basketball game then...} anyways, I walk upstairs with the bat and this conversation takes place
Ryan looks at it and exclaims
"do you know what that is?!"
I look at Ryan
"do YOU know what this is???"
"yeah it's a bat we stole to use to paddle the freshman football players!"
me "......"
me again "It's the BASEBALL bat from one of my scenes in the Charlie Brown Musical."
Ryan "haha, oh yeah we stole it from back stage."
Me "I can't believe I married you."
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