Ok so I don't know if anyone has ever noticed that I have not ever even mentioned dance on my blog...... let alone post a picture or anything.... which is dumb because it is so much a part of our lives including my kids lives....( I do have a small video of liv at Christmas time but it just mentions I love all the recital and performances including school etc)...... Well last year when I started my blog I was in one of my really feeling guilty phases that I have gone through like crazy over the past 3 years for not spending every waking minute at home in my house with my kids.... I would look at other blogs and actually cry because I didn't have one or because I didn't have the time to have one therefore I was not a good mother. So when I started my blog I had promised myself it would be our life dance free and my kids could be like all the other kids who have moms at home blah blah..... (I never said I was rational). Well this year a few days after the year end recital I was helping at Olivia's school and one of the kids said your always a mom helper and I had this total ahah moment I can do both... This is our life I should record it and share it with others and there is nothing I should feel guilty about!! I spent 7 to 8 years as the Young Women's president or a counselor which takes up a lot of your time and never felt guilty about that......what is really the difference??? I am working with super cute teenage girls whom I truly love.... and then I have all these cute cute little ones I get to work with... I always wanted a whole house full of kids and I get to see these cute little faces each week and hear the funny things they have to say etc it couldn't get better.....In fact when I had one of my miscarriages (the farthest along one that I actually had to deliver the baby) I had a really hard time getting out of a very sad depression/ or funk whatever you want to call it, and what really pulled me out was my first day back teaching these cute little tiny ones, and I was ok after that. The fact is, is that dance really blesses our lives and I should celebrate it instead of acting like I just stay home all the time... It is a family run business, just like people in the olden days who had farms and all the family had to work, or even the Olsen's running their little store they all take a part... not like we want to be the Olsen's, but you know its just something we do as a family together... all of us. I am so lucky to have Tom as my business partner doing all the books and music and scenery etc etc.. Hayden helps with music and stuff too.... and the fact that I get to share this with my girls really is priceless Madz helps me all the time and we spend so much time together doing it... it may not be growing a garden together but none the less it is what we do together and I know it effects the lives of others too... hopefully in a good way, because I have had some great friendships built because of it my girls best friends come from dance and I have witnessed the strength first hand we have in the youth of our world.... They are so capable of doing great things and being great leaders... sorry this has been so long, but this is my journal (another area I am lacking so....) anyway this last recital got rained out, and I was really stressed out well... I looked over and saw a few teenage girls rounding up all the little ones and making a huge circle and saying a prayer together that it could stop raining and that everything would be ok etc... I was so impressed and proud to have them as my students.... anyway if you have managed to read this super long post thank you either way I hope you enjoy a few pictures of this last year... which has been our best year yet the girls won soo many overall awards and we had a lot of fun together.... You can see all the cute little faces of my little friends who I really do love and miss over this summer break (not enough to not take the break though!!) I also hope its ok that from now on I share a little dance in my "family blog" because it is really part of what makes us us!! So I have come out of the closet I work..... my two worlds have collided and we are better for it!!
