Ballerina Bliss......(or really, truth be told, PARENTAL BLISS!!!)

Clingy arms around my neck….

“Mommy, hode you!!......Hode you!!”…..usually sobbed out w/ hiccups!

Shrill, high pitched wailing…..a performance from child #3 that means only mommy & a bottle will work.

Rubbing dirty hands across a face full of tears,

a frantic glancing about to see where mommy is….

Why? a tumble (by our oldest) from running down the mountain…..twice this week,

who gets so excited about life, that she gets ahead of her arms & legs.

She then gets the needed kisses, hugs,

bandaides & ice, from mommy, of course.

“It’s nice being needed”….Pauline Harris, “Anne of Avonlea,” the movie.

(Yes, I am a self-confessed lover of ALL things “Anne”.

Books, movies, PEI-though I have never been there….it’s a dream of mine…)

It is nice being needed, and this week,

was perhaps the most FUN I have had helping a child in a long time.

Ana had her end-of-the-year ballet recital, &

I got to dress her up, fix her hair & put on her makeup-right down to the squinty-eyed application of mascara!

Then, I had the purely delightful “job” of sitting in the audience

(sans younger children-who would have been bored & crabby).


Imagine our surprise to discover, that it seems our ballerina is growing up.

She had a “presence” on the stage.

She knew where to be when.

When her arm band had a mind of it’s own,

& slid down her arm where it shouldn’t be,

she slyly slid it back up when her arm was out of sight!

Huh? She’s 7!!! Dave & I were stunned!

Watching your child do something he/she loves,

& is slowly mastering…..now that is parental bliss!!

Know what I mean?

(she's the blurry one that is bowing-mid-stage!)

"Mooom!!! PLULEESE!!"
"Ok, I guess it's tolerable!"
Sheer delight!!

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Thank goodness we have two more babies!!!!!

I can't quite take all this "grown up" behavior!!