Tiny dancer

Our petite ballerina had a dance recital on Friday. It was adorable and she did a great job. As recitals go, it was pretty simple; the children showed us what they have learned since class resumed in January, after the Christmas holidays. The GB attends a pre-ballet class, which is really a fundamentals-of-dance kind of class. I have no dance training whatsoever, but I would have enjoyed it as a child. I offered her the opportunity because she has been dancing since she learned to stand. So far, she is doing well, and more importantly, she's having a lot of fun.

The dance school is wonderful; family-owned and in business since the 1940's, this studio offers classes for ages three through adulthood. All year, there has been a ballet class for adults in one of the other practice studios at the same time as the GB's class, and the women in that class have performed for the little ones and vice versa at the recitals. The little ones watch in fascination, as do the parents; these ladies are really good dancers. The little girls (and boy) in the GB's class are good too.

They normally wear blue leotards (with their initials embroidered onto the right shoulder area) with pink tights and some will also wear a ballet skirt (we don't have one). They did part of their show in just the leotards, then they put on these yellow tutus for a dance where they pretended to be ducklings (the little boy wore a snazzy gold-sequined tunic over his usual t-shirt and tights). The GB is still working on her attention-span in class and sometimes does things that aren't part of the routine, but she's improving a lot. I have already signed her up for next year; we're done now for the summer and she'll go back in August, around the time school starts again. I know she's looking forward to it.

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Today is our eleventh wedding anniversary! We also became engaged 12 years ago today. As I've mentioned, May is an important month in our history together. I love that we start the month, on the first, with the anniversary of our meeting, and end it with our wedding anniversary. We are planning to have dinner out tonight, without the kids. The Bear's parents arrived from New Zealand earlier in the week and they will be staying with the small Bears. They're bringing pizza for the four of them to eat and they'll get them into bed afterward. We're really excited for our evening together. I'm just crazy about this guy; I've been in love with him since I was 20 years old, darn near half my life.

I'll leave with you a music video. We consider this to be "our" song. It was popular when we met and it's still one of our favorite songs. The lyrics are uncannily similar to what we were feeling like when we met and had to be separated a week later, only seeing each other once a month or so for the next two years. It was hard, but it was worth it.

Go on and close the curtains
Cause all we need is candle light
You and me and a bottle of wine
Going to hold you tonight
Well we know I'm going away
And how I wish, I wish it weren't so
So take this wine and drink with me
Let's delay our misery
Save tonight
And fight the break of dawn
Come tomorrow
Tomorrow I'll be gone...