Christy Greico Smith is co-owner of Perfect 10 Promotions with her husband Jeremy Smith. The Smiths live in Frisco with their two children: Katie, 7, and Parker, 2.
6:15AM Wake up, wake up, wake up! Run down and make a cup of green tea or a chai tea latte. I drink at least three cups of straight green tea a day; not sure I could survive without it.
6:30AM Tiptoe into Katie’s room trying not to wake Parker. Waking Parker will instantly void me of the much-needed one hour of work each morning.
6:35AM Katie is finally up. Look at what she’s picked out to wear for the day, talk her into wearing something with fewer sequins and more cotton. Explain why tutus and ball-gown dresses are not the best choice for first grade. She’s been into fashion since she was 2. So this is a daily battle that she ends up winning 75 percent of the time.
6:50AM Help her fix her hair, make breakfast and brush teeth, and remind her of her audition after school. Continually forcing my energy level higher so she is excited about her day.
7:10AM Bus picks her up. It’s the “cool thing” to ride the bus, who knew, but I love it! Breathe, and take quiet time for myself. Start Cup No. 2 of green tea. Try to get 30–40 minutes of work in before wild man wakes up. Return any East Coast emails I may have missed while sleeping and correspond with our West Coast clients bright and early. Juggle is the name of this game.
8AM Parker wakes up. He doesn’t want to put clothes on so he eats breakfast in the nude, another clothing battle I don’t care to fight, nothing new at the Smith house. While he’s eating I start the crock pot so we’ll have a hot dinner after the chaos of the day. We eat dinner as a family at least five nights a week. Make a note to buy more crock-pot liners, best invention since sliced bread.
9AM Drop Parker at Stonebriar Preschool. My happy, excited and sweet baby boy is ready for the day. Always bittersweet dropping my baby boy off as he runs off and doesn’t need me, but the sadness lasts about two seconds. Now I run to the car so I can get in a few solid hours of work.
9:30AM Home, finally sitting in office. Talk to John at The Callidus Agency about this past week’s auditions and any upcoming bookings or holds we’re waiting on. They place two or three children that audition on hold after most callbacks so you have a waiting period before you know you’re officially booked. I refer to it as torture.
9:40AM Print out audition information for today and make sure I have headshots and résumés ready to go.
9:45AM Start working on upcoming events for our marketing and events agency Perfect 10 Promotions. Ready, set, go: Staff any promotions for the week. Work on upcoming event productions. Confirm catering contracts. Return slew of our contract staff’s questions, mostly people asking when they get their next check. Try to tie up more loose ends than a bowl of spaghetti.
1PM Take quick lunch with husband (we meet in the kitchen). Add final ingredients to crock pot for dinner. Tonight we’re having kale and chicken sausage soup; I can hardly wait to eat it.
1:20PM Time to prepare for our journey to the audition. In no certain order I make sure we have water bottles refilled, snacks and movies for both children.
2PM It’s time to pick up Parker, and I can’t wait for that big hug from him! Once in the car I open his snack and start a movie for him (yes, all of this while in the car).
2:35PM Get in Katie’s carpool line so I am one of the first to get her, so we can be ON TIME.
2:45PM Grab Katie and escape the school zone only to park for a minute to dress her in the car and use cordless curling iron to fix Katie’s playground hair. Katie spills her water all over her outfit; blast the air in hopes it dries fast.
3:30PM Arrive at audition in studio near downtown Dallas. Wait with my kiddos in a waiting room full of children that look nothing like mine and wonder what the heck they’re looking for this time. Remind myself how much they love acting/being the center of attention and how exciting it is when they book something. Do this while checking my email and finishing up loose ends for work.
4:45PM Head home, great auditions – cross fingers for a callback for at least one of them! Prepare myself mentally to do this all over again in
a few days.
6PM Kick husband out of the office, hide his phone and sit down for family dinner.
6:30PM Finish dinner and dishes. Start making the kids bento-style lunches for tomorrow. Each compartment holds something fun from the food pyramid: pasta salad, roast beef slices, edamame and fresh-cut fruit. Take photos of the lunches to throw on my Facebook page, The Lunch Box Ladies.
7PM Baths, popcorn with bedtime stories, brush teeth, then send kiddos to bed.
7:30PM Slip into bed but only to open my laptop to skim through emails that can’t wait till tomorrow.
9:30PM Mind racing, I lie in bed, read, pin on Pinterest and clear my mind after yet another crazy day.
10PM Zzzzzzzz.
1:12AM Did I mention Katie is a sleepwalker?
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