Dance Lessons

So this was our first week away from each other....Maddie and me....in almost 3 years now. Maddie was in day care from 9 months to just turned 4 years old so you would think we would be old hands at the whole away from each other routine. Sounds good but we're not. While we both did really well we also learned some things!

Momma learned:
1. How to pack a kid's lunch when the need to eat in 1/2 hour essentially unsupervised....the importance of pointing out to the kid that they actually need to eat more than the cookie and that juice boxes do not need to be repacked when opened.

2. Make sure to pack all items including the water bottle. If you don't the kid is very likely going to share a water bottle with her new found friend and the best you can say is its August so hopefully no one had a cold.

3. Maddie Grace is going to come home VERY wound up, will race around the yard for 1/2 hour then crash. I thought dance class would get it all out of her but dance class is not free time. I was thankful every afternoon this week that she is home with me and not in a classroom all day. I can only imagine the energy expenditure when she arrived home if that was the case..

4. I hate to hear that Maddie was crying and I wasn't there to comfort, hug and kiss or to hug, kiss and say "Buck up girl...this is life!"

5. Maddie is a HUGE part of my world and I hate her not being here even for fun things like dance camp.

What Maddie Grace learned:

1. Jazz dance is COOL, FUN and not at all what was expected. Ballet is hard.

2. Don't repack your juice box in the lunch bag, it upsets Momma.

3. Don't tell Momma you shared a water bottle with your new best bud. You will get a lecture about germs and another on how to find a water fountain.

4. If Momma is not there you get to eat the cookie out of your lunch first! Try to make sure you eat more than just the cookie though or you will get a lecture about eating enough.

5. Make sure to eat enough lunch so you don't have a crying jag later on at night and both parents tell you that you should eat more lunch!

6. Momma didn't sign me up for hip hop....its for bigger girls.