High School Drama

My older son is in the High Schools after school drama program, he has been doing this now for the last two years and loves it. He is more of the backstage person, working on sets, in the tech booth etc. Well he gets two free comp tickets, so Thursday night my DH, younger son and I headed off to the his play. Of course there was some whinning from both my DH and son, but as I thought this play would only be about an hour like last years play, I assumed we would go using the two comp tickets, pay the student ticket of $7 and get out of the house for just an hour, enjoy a play all for $7! We went to see the play Fiddler on the Roof. The play was 2 1/2 hours long! The play was great, the kids did wonderful, my son's sets looked awesome, well he didn't do them all by himself but.. lol all in all I thought it was a great time. My DH liked the play but both him and my son thought it was alittle to long, if I would have known, I would have gone on Friday, not a weekday. We didn't get home until 10 and that is their bedtime, so my youngest son didn't have time to finish all his homework, yes my fault! And he was alittle irratited with me about that because he always wants everything done exactly on time. I love that about him but also worry about him getting so uptight when everything doesn't go exactly his way. But that is why he has me as his mom..lol I inject things to mess up his plans every now an then so he can learn how to deal with it..lol

Anyway, after the play I ask my oldest son how everything went backstage, if anyone messed up because I couldn't tell, etc. He tells me a few people had some small issues but nothing major, then he tells me about the real "HS Drama" two couples broke up and were crying all day, one girl was upset because a guy she liked was talking to another girl, etc... after talking to him I told him I am soooo glad I am not in HS anymore. Just made me remember how raw those emotions were back then. How up and down they were and how now thinking back on some of those things I see how silly it was to be upset.. of course only took me about 10 years to figure that out, around 28 or so I really grew up..lol I guess I do miss the freedom of not worrying about life, bills etc. But you know our life has always been pretty good, not great, and sometimes stressful, but seeing my children grow up has and is amazing and no amount of money can make up for that. Now to get all the money stuff sorted so as they continue to get older, married perphaps and have their own kids we will be financially set as not to burden them, and just be able to enjoy our family. Fortunately, we still have some time, my oldest is 16 1/2 so I'm sure it will be awhile before he even thinks of marriage!