Today and the next two days will be filled with pink tights, tutus, make-up and bobby-pins. Lona's dance recital is Friday night and Saturday. The Friday night performance is booked but Saturday's performance is still available. It is at 3:00pm at Nooksack Valley Performing Arts. We have been working hard for the last four months to prepare for this. She has learned so much: Arabesque, Balancé, Chassé, Croisé, croisée, Glissade, Pas de bourrée, Plié, Relevé, and Tournant are some of the dance steps that she has learned. It is fairly low key. Dance practice once a week from October to March with breaks in between. The dance instructor teaches it out of a shop at her home and it is only $140 for the year. I thought that it was fairly reasonable. Lona loves it and has made some friends in class and is always asking to have them over. I'm having fun with the dance. We come home from practice and I run through the routine with her. Last year she performed on Friday night and then got really sick that night and missed the Saturday performance. Bummer, we had bought a cd of the performance and they taped it Saturday so she wasn't in it. This year they are taping the Friday performance and we bought it again. Today we started getting ready around 2:30. Gel the hair, wrap it in a bun, put the flower in the hair and put a hair net in. Apply make-up. It takes a long time to put mascara on a 6 year old. Then into the costume. Finally, get Isaac set up (check his blood, make sure he's ready for soccer), and out the door we go to spend about 2 hours at rehearsal. Sometimes it is great to have it all about her. Most of the time it is all about Isaac or about Job.