The Dancers

Linda's Thoughts from Duluth

You may not hear from me until Monday night, unless I have time to write tonight or tomorrow morning. I have taken Monday off of work, and will be leaving tomorrow morning to drive to Hudson to spend the weekend with Dawn and the kids, returning home on Monday morning. Sunday morning at 7 am, we will be in Monticello watching a day of dance competitions. We plan to go there Saturday evening, rather than make the drive so early on Sunday. Dawn said it probably won’t be over till 10 pm, so it will be quite the day.

You may know from my writing, that Madelyn takes dance lessons. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned that 17 year old Skylar also studies dance. He started dancing late, not quite a year ago. When Madelyn starting taking lessons, he became interested when he would take her to her lessons. He started taking lessons in February. His teacher by last May was amazed at the progress he made and how good a dancer he was. At the May recital he had a solo part, in addition to the group dance. She invited him to be part of the “Senior dance team” that did competitions. He has been working on a solo number to perform at this competition. Madelyn’s dance group will also perform. It’s funny, at the May recital, Madelyn’s dance outfit was almost the exact replica of the dance outfit that her Mother wore in 1975 at her first dance recital! Dawn only took dance one year. She was much more interested in playing with her neighborhood friends than in dancing, so I couldn’t persuade her to continue after the first year. Madelyn seems much more interested in dancing, especially in tap dancing, so we'll see.

I told Skylar I wanted to come down to watch, he was very surprised, and his eyes lit up when I told him that, he was very happy to hear that Grandma wanted to see him perform. I told him that Grandma’s are here for supporting their grandchildren in all that they do!

Dawn and Bob, as most of us parents do, offered Skylar many opportunities to find where his interests and passion were, soccer, baseball, skating, and other such things, but until he started dancing, we saw no passion in any activities. Dance, we see the passion when he dances! Who knows, maybe his passion will lead him to Broadway! We wish him the best on Sunday. (Madelyn too, of course).