Wednesday, May 23, 2012

May 2012

What an unbelievable, fantastic, mind blowing month we have had.  May came in with a bang and it hasn't stopped yet.  My Brittany took her Intermediate Performance Team to their first dance competition the first weekend in May.  The girls did amazing at their first performances.  They were sparkling and so pretty.  They all received a Gold award which is great for their first time.  Brittany was like a new mother leaving her baby as she left her first group backstage and came to sit by us in the auditorium.  It was so funny to see her like that.  What a different experience for Dennis and I as we sat there on the other side of being a parent of a dancer but as parents of the artistic teacher of these girls.  I, of course know how she thinks, have the privilege of being there night after night and watching her dances come together.  To sit there and watch the vision that she had in her mind come all together was...I can't really even put it into words.

The next weekend we all the kids at the studio from  7am until noon...dressed in all of their finery, hair in buns and red lipstick for dance pictures.  I was really nervous about this week.  We planned as best we could.  Created a schedule for parents and kids and we actually pulled it off without any major crisis.  We were on our way home by 12:30.

This past weekend we went to our final competition of the year and all the girls from both her Intermediate Team and her Pre Advanced Team and her soloists were there.  It was a great time and the girls did amazing again!  What a joy it is to watch everything grow...the parents bond.  It's beginning to feel like family within the small group of these parents. 

It's Wednesday and I'm finally rested up from the little sleep we got this past weekend...just in time to switch gears.  We are in our final week of regular classes.  Next week brings on Theatre Week.  Final rehearsals, a dress rehearsal and my daughter's first Showcase!  Later that night she has about 30 kids age 7 and up back to the studio for a "after the show sleepover".  

I keep saying this over and over throughout these last posts that I am humbled by so much that the Lord is doing in her life and all around her.  If you think of us within the next week keep us in your prayers as this is a big production to put on.  Our goal...to look like we have been doing it for 100 years.  We have planned and brain stormed over and over for the last year.  It's hard to believe that in just over a week we will tie a great big bow around her very first year.


Blessings to you and yours!
Joyce Marie 

2 comments:

  1. Joyce, this is fantastic!! What a testament to Brittany truly doing what God called her to do! Great first year!

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  2. I am so proud of Brittany. God gave her a talent and she is using it exactly the way He has called her to. It's so amazing to watch God work in young people's lives. If only more would follow God's leading, they could have the joy in their lives that He's planned for them.
    Blessings!

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