Friday after the Diva’s multitude of Dance classes, we had a girls night out.
Have you ever had a girls night out with a five year old? You never know what you are going to do or eat … in this case she wanted Sushi, and I was thankful that it wasn’t McDonalds that she had requested as she’s on a growth spurt and I really would rather she get protein without garbage and carbs without preservatives, not to mention that her vegetables be green and not coated in oil and salt.
So with that in mind we went to a place called Tokyo Sushi in Southington CT, and got a couple of Salmon Nigiri for her, and an Alaska roll for me. They started us out with a lovely salad with crab and cucumbers and we enjoyed our sushi and salad and made it out with time to spare to pick up flowers for her teacher who was in a performance of Chicago that night. While the content is a bit mature, she really loved the show and was just absorbed and entranced with the singing and dancing.
… it helps that she adores her teacher Miss Marissa and listens to her as if she was the deepest authority on subjects most important in life, which I suppose to the Diva, her dance teachers may just be that.
She had a relatively quiet weekend, and we’re back to the grind today…
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a blur of motion, or how I see the Diva during the week
Monday – Ballet here in our town, and then Ballet and Tap in the next town over
- Tuesday – Tap, Ballet Solo – both in our town, and then Jazz and Hip Hop dance in the next town over
- Wednesday – See Monday’s Schedule
- Thursday – See Tuesday’s Schedule
- Friday – Ballet here in town, and then Acro and Musical Theater in the next town over.
Next week we cut out the classes in the next town over and I can start seriously working on her costume for the dance recital. We purchased a chiffon fabric that has crystals embedded in it… and a matching darker chiffon – still translucent like the first fabric and some beaded trim to make her costume out of. The teacher has cut a special version of her song for the recital making it only a minute and fifteen seconds long, but those will be the proudest 75 seconds in the world for those who love her you know…
I look forward to September when she will return to Home school four days a week and Dance only one day a week. This running around is exhausting and I’m presently running on low to begin with.
I did find something interesting to introduce her to though – online math flash cards!
Cool eh? It keeps the whole theme we have going on – she is convinced, as is Calvin, that they really aren’t going to school, that they are playing computer games, which they can not get enough of and their father and I have to pry them off the computer. I can see this interactive math program being used for a long while in our family, and I’m tickled pink that my Cousin Dee has decided that she will be introducing her little man to Time4Learning in the near future as well. She also will be doing some guest posts here soon and I’ll do some in her blog too – something we’ve both toyed with for a while and it’s a chance to get some of my readers exposed to her work and vice versa… all two of you 
I’ve been working hard at spinning when I am not knocked out by my antibiotics or driving miss Diva… I have over 1000 yards of Ramboullet spun up right now, and will be working on learning plying on my e-spinner next, and then going on to dye this. I may exchange this fiber for the one I was going to use for the custom order as it’s spinning easier and will be a guaranteed volume to meet the order. It’s really coming along nice, and I am happy with the results I’m seeing. Once it’s done it will go into the dyepot en masse to guarantee a uniform dye job.
During classes I have been reading. I have a Nook from Barnes and Noble that I love to pieces.
Originally purchased with the intent of using it for my Doula studies as it has highlight and note features, it also has a functioning MP3 player and with it’s beta web browser and built in 3g access, I have net (albeit basic with no flash and in black and white only) anywhere I go to. I love my little Nook and have read so much in the past three weeks of owning it that I have managed to get the Diva interested in reading at a level that she needs to be, vs just trying to read whatever Mom is typing at the time. I grew up with a love of books, and it was troubling me that she wasn’t getting to see that outside of me sitting on the laptop, but in no short time she has adopted my fervor for reading, and we’ve got kids ebooks on my nook too. I read so fast that I’ve been reading a lot of the public domain books and online fiction as my book habit can be pretty pricey!
I considered the Kindle, but I have really fallen for my Nook, and would be very upset if it were damaged, stolen, etc… Barnes and Nobles did a great job, and I’ve already got the memory card I bought for it as auxiliary memory filled with my favorite authors, and books on herbalism etc. I will probably be scanning and converting some of my notes from classes I’ve taken into PDF format so I can reference them here as well. It’s darn useful I tell you.
To that effect I have to say I’ve been reading Diana Gabaldon‘s Outlander series. It’s darn addictive I tell you… I woke up in the middle of the night the other night and hadn’t realized it but my bathroom trip had me carrying my Nook. Between ease of reading and my choice of reading material, I’ve just not put the thing down.
Well this week is rehearsals, spinning, dyeing, spinning, dyeing, and more dance classes than you can shake a stick at. Once it’s over we’ll just be down to the three classes until her Recital on Aug 10, and then I get a blissful few weeks of not driving her hither and yon, and may try to get the little man out to the train that runs down the Naugatuck River as a treat for not getting as much Mama time as his sister has gotten. His time will come too, and I expect that he will be dancing as much as his sister….
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