End of School Year

Summer is here!!!  We are beginning our second week of freedom and I have to admit, my favorite part (so far) is the sleeping in!!  True disclosure - I am not a morning person.  I detest waking to an alarm and I abhor happy, cheerful people in the morning.  My Littles have learned that morning hugs are about all I can handle for the first hour, or until I have had my first cup of hot tea.  Now that we are slowly falling into our summertime rhythm, I have been able to find the time to catch you up on our end-of-school year activities.

Oldest Daughter started out the final month of school by participating in a school production of 'Going Buggy'.  The play was performed for the parents with each of the 2nd grade classes singing songs about, well, different types of buggies.  I regret to inform you that the video we took of Oldest Daughter dancing and singing was too big to include here, but I will share with you a cute picture of her looking like an ant.

Next up, Youngest Daughter danced as a mermaid princess in her ballet recital.  She did an excellent job and even won a scholarship for the next year of classes.  This video was taken by a friend backstage.  Youngest Daughter is the gal on the end with the curly blonde hair.

A few short days later, Youngest Daughter sang in her preschool performance.  Nothing is more fun than watching 4 and 5 year olds attempt good behavior while on stage in front of an audience.

Youngest Daughter with Grandma K prior to the performance

Last but not least, Oldest Daughter performed two violin songs with her 2nd grade class. Here is one of the two songs.

Another true disclosure - I generally dread having to attend children performances.  Not just my children's performances, but really all children performances.  Now I know a few of you reading my revelation just gasped in horror at that, but I think I am not the only mom that feels this way.  I just may be the only one brave enough to put that fact into print.  I was secretly elated that Youngest Daughters preschool performance was on the same day and at almost the same time as Oldest Daughters violin recital, as it meant that I did not have to sit through a recital of second graders badly playing music (Handy Hubby gladly volunteered to be the parent representative at this function - he was quite looking forward to it, truth-be-told).  To be fair though, I did feel guilt that I was not mom-representing as Oldest Daughter took to the stage.  I may not be a fan of these performances, but I will always show up and cheer with mom-proudness at their accomplishments.  And as I watched the video of the violin recital later on that night, I was pleasantly surprised at how not-bad the violin playing really was.  JCMT