Well I am glad that this weekend is over - don't say that very often!! The girls had their highland dance exams on Sunday. Avri, Mika and Zoe all did their exams. It was very stressful for me!! To start off I decided that I would sew the girls National costumes, all fine and dandy til I pulled out the sewing machine and it didn't work. Off to the sewing repair shop it went, they told me they could rush it - unfortunately that didn't happen as the guy who fixes them was moving his fix-it shop. I was so stressed!! I finally got it back Friday at noon! Exams were Sunday morning. I basically sewed all night Friday all day and night Saturday!! I thought we were all ready on Sunday as I loaded everything in the van ( 5 costumes ) hair stuff, dance shoes, socks, dance underwear, water bottles, you get the picture. First exam was at 8:30 for Avri and Mika - then Zoe was supposed to dance at 9:40 they had a cancellation at 9am and wanted to stick Avri and Mika in to do their second dance exam (different dance with different costumes). That might have been ok except that I was in the midst of sewing on the velcro and hemming Mika's skirt. The top part had not been folded properly etc etc. So Their teacher was helping me. Poor Avri was stressed cause she thought that had 4 hours to get in some practice in the studio. SO we hemmed the skirt with safety pins and pinned them on the girls and I crossed my fingers and held my breath. When they were done Mika came through the door with her skirt around her knees. I about lost it then. I was so frustrated that I hadn't had time to get it finished and she told me that it had been falling down since half way through the first dance (they had 2 dances in this costume.) She didn't seem to phased by it. Avri was ok - but a little rattled at the last minute change - she gets that from me. I was so upset though - I had spent all this time sewing and then it didn't work out the way I wanted it to. Anyway we got the results today and both girls passed their national and highland. Mika got commended and Avri got the highest Mark with Highly Commended and the examiner told our teacher that Avri was a very promising dancer!! The girls teacher also said that this examiner was far tougher than the last few they have had. Both girls skipped a level and exammed at bronze (as opposed to pre-bronze). I am very proud of them. I didn't get pictures of the costumes but they will be wearing them on the 30th of April for their competition and I will get pictures then!
Other big news Friday Zoe got her ears pierced!! She was so brave and it was her idea so I decided to go for it. Avri and Mika have their ears pierced too. I don't have pictures of that yet either - I have been slacking in the picture taking department - need to charge my battery and get on it. Especially with the nice weather as I love to take outside shots this time of year. I LOVE the spring - I love to garden LOVE it!!! This year I am trying to talk Josh into letting me get a greenhouse! Wish me luck - so far he is not too excited about it!! I am just in the planning stages for the veggie garden and the flower garden and the perenial garden. A few years ago Josh gave me some flowers for Mother's day and with it was a card that said he was vowing to never NEVER give me a hard time about buying things for gardening - I have to remind him every year of this but he has been pretty good so far - the greenhouse is sort of pushing it though! I will have to keep you posted on the outcome...
