Annika's FIRST Acting Job!

Today is the day...the day it finally all came together for Annika.  A few weeks ago we drove 2 hours to almost New Hampshire for a Casting Call.  It was for an Acting Job for Philips and she was required to read lines from a script with a Green Screen behind her.  She did an awesome job and today we heard from Annika's Agents at Model Club Inc in Boston that she was selected for the job.  The best part of it is that we don't need to do anything else.  She will get paid $200 from this job.  And so there you have it...she is a professional at last.  Now the important next step, is to keep it going and to move forward.

It is wonderful to see that all of her work and interest is paying off.  she loves her Agency, her teacher Adrian R'Mante and her other instructors from Celebrity actors Camp like Matthew Timmons, Chester See, Giovanni Samuels, Tanya Chisholm and Phil Lewis.  We are doing our best to follow all the wonderful advice from them when they first came into our lives in February 2011.

So my little sweetheart is on a roll!

Keep Moving Forward

Image from RDP photography of Boston

Today is a great day to write this...a message...more to myself and to Annika then to the world.  Someday when my daughter is grown, I want her to review these Blogs and believe.  I want her to BELIEVE in miracles...and believe in herself.  I hope that she can relive her Acting journey (in the event that she does not continue) and remember what SHE DID.  Today she has an audition in Andover MA...a 2 hour drive from our home here in Warwick RI.  Being the "thoughts become things"-follower that I am, I am presently fighting off some negativity about today's audition because it is far, and the car we are using is old and in tough shape.  We have a 1995 Geo Metro with no AC, no Power anything and it is so loud that I actually have the urge to park a mile away from the building so there would be no chance of anyone seeing or hearing it.  I had to juggle the Daycare schedule, convince my Grandmother to Babysit/Cover the daycare...find my husband a ride to work and back home and finally, get the young actress ready.  That last part is much harder then it sounds, I will have you know.

So today's audition will be a recorded Script-Reading.  The children have been instructed to dress "business casual" as the subject matter relates to medical/medical supply/professions in medicine...with the premise of adult words being spoken by kids.  She needs to bring her handheld Nintendo DSI as a prop.  So here I am at 7am, already trying to figure out how I will have her looking like a star while managing my morning workload and getting her and I out the door on time.  I also need to consider the afternoon pickups (parents) and my grandmother and who will relieve her from her duties and what will my son eat for dinner and what will Annika eat for dinner...it is a 2 hour drive back in Rush Hour Traffic.  So basically I am already praying for it to be Friday!  Ok, there...no stress.  I am picturing it Friday now.  We are all playing and having fun...uh-oh...more thoughts...of people I need to call and follow-up with.  I have to call the Baker for the cake-testing and I need to straighten Annika's hair.  I need to water the garden...breathe.  Breathe Deep.  A long drive could prove to be a good time to meditate. 

I wish Annika could be safe travelling in the front seat with me, but she cannot and as it is, I really must keep the windows down in this 80 degree weather or else we will both melt...and once the windows are down, I cannot easily put them up...like on the highway...because they are manual, not power windows....UGH. And with the windows down on the highway, I cannot hear her when she tries to talk to me. Ok, I am ok.  We just want this first job...to show us it can happen.  I know it can...I believe it can or I would not be doing this.  Annika could be excellent at this.  She has the perfect disposition and energy for this type of work.  she is photogenic, beautiful, charismatic, charming and most importantly...DRAMATIC!

So wish us luck- more ME then her.

~Namaste