Emma has been taking dance since she was three years old. I was so not into dance when I was a little girl, so I was hesitant to even sign her up. But she really wanted to do it, so I signed her up.

She REALLY loves it. It suits her perfectly. She loves everything about it. She loves the costumes, practicing and she loves performing.

This year they asked her to be in the Nutcracker performance that that dance school puts on every December. She was absolutely thrilled! She worked so hard. She went to dance 3 hours a week every week from September to December. The last week she spent about 10 hours at the studio practicing. I expected to hear her complain and say she didn’t want to go, but she was happy to go to every practice. She was counting down the days until the actual performance.

The day of the show she woke up jumping out of her skin. She was SO EXCITED. She kept asking all day when it was going to be time to leave. Finally it was time.

We took her and dropped her off. I went back and helped her get her costume on. She was one of the first girls there!

It was a thrill to see her dance. She was a snow angel. She only danced in one dance and she had a relatively small part, but she was thrilled just the same. She concentrated so hard and she did every part perfectly.

When she came out after the show, she was just glowing. She was thrilled with herself. I was so proud of how hard she worked and I was glad that she felt good about herself. She is already talking about next year!