And sadly, so do my kids. So, with the help of Clean Mama (I do not get a kick back from her, I just <3 her!) and PhotoShop, I put this together for each of my kids: [Read more...]
(We got the) Hollywood Vibe
29 January 2012 By Leave a Comment
Remember this post? We survived. We woke up at five AM. We hustled everything into the car and were out the door by 6:30. We picked up another girl and made it to the convention center by 8 and we all ran from there. [Read more...]
Dance Moms and their Stars
14 January 2012 By 1 Comment
So most of you who read this probably already know I have a tiny dancer on my hands. Last year she was invited to try out for, and consequently got into her studio’s Company. Yay for her, tons of work for me, but totally worth how much she loved it. This year she tried out again and made it in. [Read more...]
My Side of the Mountain
11 January 2012 By Leave a Comment
I started reading this book with my kids tonight. You can find a current (and inexpensive) printing of it here as well as many customer reviews.
I read this book for the first time probably around 1989/1990. I’ve reread it many times since then. I’ve gone so far as to push it on my kids, although none ever took a real interest. I decided tonight to start it, and lo and behold, all three listened with very few interruptions. [Read more...]
Eshiva’s first competition!
28 March 2011 By Leave a Comment
So those of you who have me on your FB feed have already gotten spammed by this, but so many of you aren’t 
Eshiva and her company group had their first competition on Saturday at Nexstar. They did amazing!
So, here is her *mumbles* freaking dollar company uniform tracksuit:
Super cute? Yes. Over priced? Yes. Will it fit next year, and the year after? It fucking better
Before they went on:
So, K’s mom was freaking out b/c she somehow got a hole in her *new* tights, but thankfully K and her tights are more or less the shame color and the hole was on the inner thigh, so she had the studio owner, the company coach, and the other two group parents telling her to calm herself down it’s not the end of the world. K’s mom was more nervous than K
Isn’t she cute??
and the trophy:
Her group won high gold for their category and age range, and won third over all for category. Not too bad for their first real time out, especially for the number of kids that were there.
Since she is a group, the trophy has to live at Mrs. P’s. She got to bring it home over the weekend (b/c the other two girls in her group had to split before awards were given out) and Michael and I went to a trophy store today and ordered her one that she can keep. I can’t see doing it every time, but this time was special. 15$ well spent, IMO. She’ll have it on Friday 
