When I was little summer was always devoted to Vacation Bible School and a Summer play. My cousins and I would all be in these musicals with the other children at my church and it was a lot of time and a lot of fun....but for whatever reason they decided to not to continue the tradition once I became a Jr. Higher (Age 12 [for you British folk]).

Now they have decided to restart the tradition, but the problem is that there are no kids anymore. Most the "kids" from the church had all grown up to teenagers. There is a total of 6 kids who originally go to our church and all of them are in it. They selected the Seussical musical for a performance in a few weeks...and all I can say is I never realized how much work goes into it.

Its cute, but it's a lot of work.

My question is...why did they wait 10 years until they finally decided to resurrect such a project?

My feeling is if the kids had done some sort of musical as long as they could remember they'd probably be more into it...or more able to sit still and listen.

They haven't though.

And now everyone at my church is complaining because there are so few children participating....what do they expect? If this had been a summer project every summer up until now it would make much more sense.

But no. They'd rather sit and complain.

I'm hoping this all works out. It's been a rough road this past month working with kids who have no idea what they're doing.

:-/