One of my favorite things about being a mom, is that one of my main tasks is to make the memories our kids will remember forever (no pressure or anything) and hopefully, tell their kids one day and their kids will tell their kids and so on. When Taylor Swift announced she was going on tour in 2022, I had a strong pull that we would have to get the girls there since we are a big Taylor Swift household. As much as I wanted to go, I knew that if I went without them, I would never hear the end of it. Plus, I always look back on my first big live concert of NKOTB that I went to with my dad and sister, Annie. I knew my dad had the same feeling at the time and knew how extra magical it would be to see the experience through his children’s eyes. Thanks to my dedicated husband who looked on stub hub just about every day for almost two years, he made it happen in the ninth hour and at literally the last domestic stop of her entire almost two-year tour in Indianapolis before heading to Canada. I would casually ask Mike every few months for an update of, “any tickets opening up” and get a “nope, no movement” until one day in September of 2024, he changed his search to two pairs of tickets and finally said, “I think we can make this work.” He found two seats on one side at the front of the Lucas Oil Stadium and two more seats directly on the other side of the stadium so we could each sit with one of the girls. The only thing is we would have to leave Noah back home so enter his best bud, Papa. I called my dad and asked if he might like to fly to Maryland to hang with Noah for the weekend while we drove to The Eras Tour in Indy and he said I think that might just work. (cont’d in part two)…