Why?
I spent my childhood and teens as a dancer, ballet, tap, modern. All day Saturdays, straight from school until after 8pm most weekdays was spent dancing. I did it enjoy it BUT I planned to live vicariously through my child and have her do the things I missed out on!
So what has Boo been desperate to do... B.A.L.L.E.T. I tried to dissuade her.
After a few weeks of nagging, I relented, found a ballet school, bought the uniform (ummm, yes before even finding out if she liked ballet), woken up to the same question every day for a week, "Am I going to ballet today?" and helped her try on her ballet costume everyday!
Last night she was so excited she couldn't sleep, and finally fell asleep around 10.30pm. She was up with the sun this morning. Finally the time arrived.
She loved it and is counting the seven sleeps until her next class. All afternoon she has been teaching imaginary friends how to be as good at ballet as she is (!!!)
