Settling In

Wow, it's been a long time since posting. It's been a crazy couple of weeks. With productions for me next week, it will be crazier coming up. But we've managed to maintain a nice balance here, even with the addition of three extra practices per week.

Poor K fell victim to her first cheer snobbery this week. Having a background in tumbling gives her quite the learning curve for the stunting aspects of cheer. So when one of the girls who had been making cheerleading a career these last several years decided that K wasn't experienced enough to spot her during stunts, it hurt K's feelings a little bit. My first reaction was to suggest maybe she should help the cheer snob take a tumble from the top of the pyramid (or whatever it is that they do nowadays...), but that seems like it is the opposite of helping this cause. No matter how much it would have made me feel better. Instead, I just told her to keep focused, keep learning, and stay away from that horrible girl.

This week, we ordered the new uniform pieces and accessories that we weren't able to purchase at the garage sale. Came up to juuuuuust about the same amount as ALL the used stuff we got before. Hardly seems comparable. And can anybody explain to me why it was necessary to purchase both a monogrammed bag AND backpack? Craziness. Even crazier? The text conversation Katy and I had while she was ordering everything (no moms allowed, but of course):

K - Cheer Mom! How many pairs of each color of hot pants are we supposed to buy?
CM - Doesn't the sheet of paper that coach sent home say one each?
K - I don't know
CM - Well...ask your coach.
K - How many of each color?
CM -What did coach say?
K - I need hot pants in each color
CM - What ARE hot pants?
K - Bloomers.
CM - What did the coach say?
K - I think I need two in each color
CM - What is everybody else getting?
K - Two in each color
CM - *sigh* FINE. Get whatever you need
K - Are you on your way yet?

And then later in the car...
CM - Soooo...why did we need to buy two of each color?
K - Well, the seniors said that after a few months, girls will start losing their hot pants. Then they'll steal yours and you need a back up
CM - So we're underwriting the thieves at $37/pair of fluffy panties. Beautiful.

The fun part of all this uniform stuff? Playing dress up the cheerleader. I've had her prance around in front of all the family members that have stopped by over the last two weeks. FUN. Luckily, she doesn't mind...yet.

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Current Mood: PAR-TAY - it's Battle of Flowers today!