Have you got an active text life?

So this is the truth.  When Tim is on a show week, Robyn, Alice and I put our heads down and get through it.  They are doing so well learning to work out where he is and what he is doing.  It has fostered in them a love of musical theatre that I am sure wouldn't be there if it wasn't for the fact that they associate their daddy with it.  I am really hoping they don't decide to take to the stage! 

Tim and I make use of facebook, twitter and text during show week. Even more than we normally do.  In fact I bet he reads this tonight when he returns after another show (that he has booked us in to see on Sat matinee).  I do the same.  So it was with curiosity that I read a post from him that suggested that he was feeling the week just as much as we were.  It is hard when you give of yourself in any profession that becomes your vocation or passion, not to become emotionally attached and almost wear your heart on your sleeve.  I know I have been a teacher for 17 years (ish) and I get passionate about subjects and frustrated when others don't get it.  I get Tim.  I get his absorption in his latest project and his need to play me every score he has arranged.  I like making suggestions and pointing out areas where he might have overlooked something!  I like the fact that he takes criticism from me.  I like to be able to support. 

I also get he fact that he likes to keep in touch with friends who have helped him.  I have some very good friends, some from childhood, still in touch on facebook and snail mail.  But I also have friends that have moved on.  My mum once told me that sometimes you have to wave at the boats that pass in the night because they came alongside you for a while but then go on their own path.  If every boat was meant to stay together then we would all end up in the same place.  Extended metaphor aside, we sometimes have friends for a while, some that we bump into time and again like the penny! and some that stay close.  You can't stress about where others are going or who they are going with, just wave when you see them and smile as they go.

I will continue to keep in touch with Tim during show weeks, I ensured that he had a mobile phone sorted after Robyn locked it by playing with the pattern lock too many times.  Just to make sure this week we have had a happy text life.