It all started when Marie Osmond was on ABC's Dancing with the Stars, then our local community theatre also did Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Our family watched the video of Joseph starring Donny Osmond. Then the Osmonds were on Oprah and several other media outlets. Somewhere along the way Hannah found out that the Osmonds are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was over-the-moon excited there were other LDS people out there and that they were on TV, too. Here in Utah a study of state history is a part of the curriculum at her school and so came the written reports of a famous Utahan. Did she pick the Ute Indians, Brigham Young(first Utah Governor), Karl Malone (Utah Jazz player) Philo T. Farnsworth (inventor of the television)? Nope! She picked Donny and Marie Osmond. We are out window shopping yesterday and she found a CD, not just a CD but a box set of "Donny & Marie Osmonds Greatest Hits" is was a 3 CD set in a special tin case. Hannah knows that we have been very careful with the family budget, trying to keep the extra purchases to a minimum. But I could tell she really wanted it. It was on sale for only 11.99, so I had to get it for her. After all most moms of a "tween" are dealing with obsession of Brittney Spears or other pop stars that are less than desirable role models that sing about being a "slave for love" or "oops I did it again." Nathan and I spent the whole night listening to our daughter in her room, in the shower, everywhere, rocking it out to "I am a little bit country, I am a little bit rock-n-roll", "Puppy Love", and "Paper Roses".
