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There are few things that bring me more joy as a mom more than watching my girls do what they love.
I put my oldest daughter in a dance class in our small town when she was three years old. Just a few weeks from her 4th birthday, she was so proud to have her little black leotard and her blue wrap skirt and her tiny, tiny little pink leather ballet shoes. She took to dance like the proverbial duck to water, and her teacher said she was a natural. Usually a serious little girl, she wore a look of concentration and adhered to each position as carefully as any serious ballerina.
Just a few years later, her little sister also proudly wore her own tiny little pink leather shoes and shiny black tap shoes, dancing into everyone's hearts with her dimpled smile.
Every place we've moved since we lived in that small town, we've been mindful of finding a good dance studio, not competition-based (although of course we've done *some* competition in intervening years), with nurturing teachers and a cheerful yet studious atmosphere. Schools attached to nonprofit companies have been our best educational opportunities.
Today, my serious little girl has a smile as wide as the ocean and makes her debut onstage in a community theatre production of "Pippin." She dreams of landing on the Great White Way. Her sister with the dimples now tap-dances in sock feet every day in the kitchen, and wants to study and tap dance professionally someday.
My heart is bursting at their joy, which has become my own.
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Thank you for stopping by! Wishing you a wonderful weekend.
2 comments:
That sounds so wonderful. My oldest went to a ballet camp one year, and it was so much fun to watch her.
Hugs,
Melinda
(visiting from FMF)
Beautiful picture you describe in your post. I always dreamt abput becoming a ballerina when I was little girl :) and hoping one of my girls will wanna be one ;)
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