(Near) Throw Down at Kindergarten Graduation

Oh yes, seriously people. If I had not been in a church sanctuary last night for Kyla's Kindergarten graduation, it would have gotten ugly.

I'll set the scene:

Graduation start time 6:30. We arrive at 5:40 to find a seat and get Kyla in the dressing room. I walk up to the front and rows and rows and ROWS of seats are saved. Like someone emptied out the contents of their purse and put an item on each seat to indicate that those seats were saved. So, exasperated with this, I spotted an section at the end of row six or seven that was not reserved. So, we made a beeline over there, set our purses down (on two seats, one for me and one for Elisan) and brought Kyla to her room.

I make it back to the seats and I notice another purse is sitting on the same seat as my purse. I think, okay, someone must be saving the seats next to mine for someone else. But remember, the entire end of this row is empty, except for our purses. Moments later, a woman comes and sits right next to me and says,

"I'm sorry, these seats are saved."
With a puzzled look on my face, I say, "Um... since when?"
She says, "I've been here since 5:30 saving these seats. The entire row is saved."
I say (still puzzled), "You've got to be kidding me."
She says, "No. I'm going to have to ask you to move."
I say, "Seriously? Okay then. C'mon Elisan. Let's move."
Elisan says, "Why mommy?"
I say, "Because some people are rude and feel like they need to save an ENTIRE row so no one can have a good seat." (Oh, she heard me too...)

And then we move back to row 13-15 and now Elisan can't see a thing.

Okay, I'm almost certain that had we not been where we were last night, I would have said, "I'm sorry. Your stuff wasn't on these two seats indicating that they were saved, so I'm sorry, we're not moving."

Randy said regardless of Christian school or not, he would not have moved. He said he would have looked at her like she was crazy (which she was) and not have said a word to her. Too bad he was out of town on a business trip... I would have loved to have seen his passive aggressiveness at work!

So, aside from that potential throw down, once I settled down and stopped grumbling to myself, I was able to enjoy Kindergarten Graduation. They kicked off the night with a production that they worked on for months. The kids were to dress up like puppy dogs. Kyla was a bird dog (or a black lab.)

I happened to attend the dress rehearsal yesterday morning and I was able to get a front row seat (imagine that!) so I took some pretty cute pictures of her on stage! (Thank goodness for a little preparation on my part... by attending the dress rehearsal, I was at least able to see my child perform!)