Chellisms

What the hell, karma?

Okay, it's 93 degrees at 6:40 PM sitting outside at soccer. I give up. Is this my karma biting me in the ass?

You win, karma, nice call on the a/c on the Jeep dying. That was the real karmic kicker.

Summer Catchall

It has been extremely warm for Washington for the past week or so with a heat advisory in effect for the next week. Basically we don't want to be in the house and it's too hot to do anything outside. But the show must go on!

Taylor's eyes have pretty much recovered, kind of. You know how I poked fun and said it looked like she had been on a three week bender? When they didn't clear up and continued to burn after three days a weekend, give me a bit of credit) I took her to the doc and after a very fun Fluorescein eye test we discovered she had a chemical burn. Basically they stained her eyes orange and shined a blue light in them to look for corneal abrasions which made her eyes look 3D and neon green and purple, was awesome and made me wish I had my camera, supportive parent that I am. We have been weeding out sunscreens ever since, no more spray ones at all. We never used those on the face but now we don't use them at all and a few lotions seem to irritate her eyes as well even if we apply it widely around the eyes and wash it off promptly when we come inside. Eh, thank the stars for short summers.

Word to the wise, the Fluorescein orange dye will turn your face orange if you happen to tear up and they dye your eyes by laying a strip of paper on your eyeball.

Just writing that made me tear up.

Soccer. Oy, soccer. Tryouts should be over this week. I hope. I think. Maybe. Practices are Monday and Wednesday, 5 to about 7. There is a tournament this weekend that she might be playing in at Starfire but I haven't worked out all of the details yet, it is Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Taylor will be the first one to say that she was overwhelmed with the things that this team does. Me too... But we just keep practicing and hoping for the best.

Ballet. Yep, Bailey is taking a summer ballet class. After the, um, clusterfuck of the year end performance we did decide to switch it up with her ballet school. We first decided to try a summer class and see how it goes. So far, so good. Classes are Tuesday and Thursday and she loves it. Especially since she is the youngest in the class, she gets to learn what the older girls are learning, harder pirouettes and things I can't spell or pronounce.

That's all I have for now. It's ice cream for dinner time. Hey, it's a food group!

One of my children...

One of my children...

Has a soccer tryout tomorrow night for a GU-10 dev team.

Won't sleep tonight.

Probably needs new cleats.

Got sunscreen in her eyes and looks like she just came off of a three week bender.

Think happy thoughts!

Sounder Bound!

She made it! Now all she has to do is last through the game and buy a foam finger and she will be in heaven.

Go Sounders!

Take One

 

Yesterday was a very long day. Bailey had the dress rehearsal for her year end ballet performance, Sleeping Beauty. She is a member of the Royal Court and opens the show.

Her class is made up of six girls, including herself, and they are partnered up off and on through out their dance. Their teacher left after Saturdays regular rehearsal for a summer long trip to PA leaving them without an instructor. Last night they were short one girl, the missing girl is someone else's partner in the beginning of the dance and Bailey's partner at the end of the dance. They also intertwine around each other three different times during the dance, I can't explain it I just know that the girls are mixed up missing one person.  Needless to say things did not go well.

We were at the Performing Arts Center from 3:30 to 8:30, we were actually released at 7:45 but since the girls actually only got to run through their dance once with no instructor help and had no idea what to do being short one person I cornered an instructor and asked her if it was possible that the girls could go over their dance again with a bit of help. You know, since Thursday is the performance and they don't know how to do the dance being one short. They got to run through it one more time with someone reading instructions off of a piece of paper. The dance was better the first time. The school has a strict policy that if you don't make it to a dress rehearsal you will not be allowed to do the actual performance, this does not bode well.

As a parent I am extremely irritated. I completely understand the teacher's situation and why she is spending the summer in PA. The school should have compensated for that, there are several other instructors who could have, should have, stepped in and pointed the girls in the right direction. I realize the girls are 7 and don't expect perfection, far from it. I expect and hope for her to have a good time and to learn ballet, something she absolutely loves. She was not loving it last night, none of the girls were.

The hard part is that Bailey loves her teacher. I am undecided about next year. The school is across town, about 30 minutes from the new place. There is a pricier more established school closer, much closer. The closer school is about 2 1/2 times as much per month and the classes are twice a week opposed to once a week but I think she will learn more.

Yes, I am seriously considering paying quite a bit of money monthly to keep her in ballet. Ballet is her thing. She loves it and is serious about it, even at 7.

I just have to make sure I can work a soccer schedule around it. Sometimes having a husband who works swing shift sucks donkey butt.