Feisty Dancer
April 21, 2008 11:00 PM

Here we are almost at the end of another school year. Where has this year gone? Life only seems to go by faster each day. I have been trying to make mental notes of things that I wanted to tell everyone about, but do you think I can remember very many of them right now? Of course not!

The first thing that I have to tell everyone is that Juliana finally was able to start dance classes. She is doing a ballet and tap class. She is so cute in her tights, her leotard and her little skirts. She started her very first class a few weeks ago and she looks like she has been doing it for years.

She is doing fantastic in school! She really loves her teacher and her friends are great. The kids are so accepting of her. Some days when I pick her up I hear stories about the girls fighting on the playground over who gets to play with Juliana. I am getting nervous about transferring her to a new school yet again. That will be three different schools in three years.

Kendra is playing soccer right now, so they are really keeping me running. We are counting down to Thom leaving on deployment again. We have about five weeks left before he leaves. We are not even definately sure about where he is going. Nothing like waiting until the last minute to get prepared!

This summer will be just as busy as the school year or maybe even more. The girls and I have three different trips planned for the summer. Juliana will be attending summer school and Kendra will be going to sports camps in between our trips.

Juliana has been very trying of my patience lately. I attended a seminar this past weekend at our church about raising a strong-willed child. It really opened my mind up to where our problems lie. I came home and told Thom that these next five weeks were going to be a crackdown on her. It all seems to be working so far. She was not too happy yesterday when she missed out on bowling because she had a meltdown as we were getting into the car to go. She stood outside the car on Kendra's side knocking on the door. I walked around and told her to get in through her door. I proceeded to put my hands under her arms to lead her to her door and she lifted up her legs and kicked me in the shin. That was the end of her afternoon of fun. Thom quickly changed his plans to go fishing with his dad. He stayed home with the diva while I took Kendra to the birthday party. She is in the process of realizing that she is not in charge!

I better wrap this up. It is late and I can't remember everything that I had to tell you all anyway. I guess I better start taking notes to remind myself.

—Tami