Friday, December 18, 2009

The Sixth Day of Tradition

Dance: In case you haven’t figured out from previous blog posts, my daughter likes to dance. A lot. She started taking dance when she was a year old (please save your angry emails about how that is way too young to start a kid in an extracurricular activity. I wasn’t crazy about the idea at the time but it turned out that she loved it, so we stuck with it). Her old dance school had Christmas Performances at the Riverwalk during the Lights On Ceremony. In theory, this is a great idea. In practice, it is bitter cold and miserable. Last year, Sister got so cold that she cried before she went on stage (but refused to leave when we gave her that option). Of course, as soon as she got on stage, she stopped crying, put on a big smile, and did her dance. Not surprisingly, she cried again after she got off the stage. As much as I liked much of that dance school, the outdoor Christmas Performance was not one of them.

This year, Sister’s dance school did a small, in-class recital. This was a welcome change for us since we began a new tradition of dancing in the Nutcracker. Sister really enjoyed this experience and already is talking about dancing in the Nutcracker in the future.

(Sister after performing in The Nutcracker)

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