Dance Recital

Woohoo! Dance is over for a little while. We atleast get the summer off. I'm still not sure if we will continue to force the girls to go to dance classes. I get tired of pushing it and I said I was not going to make them go next year but after seeing the recital I'm changing my mind again. Lydia is so good. It makes me sick to let her quit. She loves to dance and she loves to watch people dance but she does not like wearing leotards and she HATES tights. To me that is just such a silly reason to let her quit. Surely she will out grow those things. She changes her mind all the time too. She really enjoys dance once she is there but it's all the whining that I have to put up with to get her there that I just don't know if I can handle. Lauren loves dressing up for dance but she picks up on her sisters negative attitude and then she joins in on the whining and I want to pull my hair out. Is is really worth it? Rafael really wants them to continue with dance even if it requires me dragging them there against their will. He regrets not sticking with a certain sport as a child and he doesn't want that to happen to his kids. It's hard for me too because I really believe that Lydia has a natural talent for dance and if she continues she could be really good. It's hard to just let that go. Lauren is still a little young but I know she certainly has a natural talent as a gymnast. She is fearless and loves to be active. Luckily that is something that I don't have to force. She would love to go to gymnastics everyday.
Well atleast I have a few months to decide what we will do about dance for next year.

Pistachio scare

Okay, this story is strange enough that I just have to share it. Rafael went to the grocery store the other day to pick up a couple of things. He took this opportunity to buy a few things that he likes and I never think to buy. One of those was a big bag of pistachios. The next day we got them out and although the kids were interested in what we were eating we could not talk any of them into to trying this mysterious green nut. Even Lydia refused and she usually eats anything and everything especially if we tell her it is good for her. The next day I packed a few containers of snacks to take for the kids during the girls dance classes. I packed a container of pistachios thinking if they were hungry enough maybe I could tempt them to try them. I know if they tried them they would love them. We got to dance and although I looked and looked in my car I could not find the pistachios anywhere and none of the kids knew where they disappeared to either. It's very odd that particular container disappeared but all the other snacks were just where I sat them. This morning I was on the phone with a good friend of mine and in the middle of our conversation I opened the back of my car to put some groceries in and there was the container of pistachios in the very back of my car. I was so surprised to see it back there that I actually said out loud "Oh there's my pistachios!" and then continued on with what I was saying. She stopped me and said "wait a second, did you say something about pistachios?" She then goes on to tell me that there has been a product recall on pistachios due to possible salmonella poisoning. (Thanks Sabrina!!!) Sure enough I go home and look it up and the pistachios we bought are on the list. Of course I have no idea if our pistachios are contaminated although Rafael was up with an upset stomach last night after eating a bowl of them and I read that in healthy adults salmonella could be nothing more than an upset stomach. However small children are not always so fortunate. Pretty scary! What a close call...sure is a lot of strange coincidences in this story huh? Of course I think that it's much more than just coincidence. Someone up there is looking out for us.