The Best Family: Zilker Performance

Every year, Dance eMotions has the opportunity to dance on the Zilker Hillside Theater and perform our competition pieces for an audience! It's a great opportunity to show our pieces off for others, and get our girls' jitters out of the way before competition! Well, this year is a bit different for me since I have a daughter on a team now!

She is so sweet. Always practicing. She listens to her teacher and takes it very seriously. If Miss Sarah (aka Auntie Sarah) tells her to go home and practice, she does. She is very hard on herself if she forgets. Or does 5 minutes instead of 10. Oh, by the way, she's 6. ha! Anyway, last night, she was so great. This was her second performance, and she's improved so much since the first, which was only about a month ago! I'm truly so proud of her, but admittedly, it's hard for me to step back from dance teacher mode and into mommy mode. I see all the positives, just like a dance teacher and mom, but also see the work ahead of us, like a dance teacher. I pray that I am able to correctly divide the two jobs. I don't want Abigail to never feel like I'm proud of where she's at. BUT- I don't think my dancers feel that way. I think they all know I'm proud of who they are as dancers now, but can still grow. But, you know, sometimes you just want your mommy to hold you and tell you that you're the best thing ever. I want to be able to do that for her when she needs it. So, I guess I need to truly step back and let Auntie be her dance teacher, and I'll be her mommy. :-)

The other girls, of course, looked amazing. But, this blog is about my precious daughter. It's amazing watching your children grow up. I'm so honored to be chosen to raise these outstanding people. :-)