Insurance

Memphis feis next weekend. Sophia's in 7 solo dances, including moving up in her traditional set because they don't have advanced beginner. Groups are solid--her smallest dance has 9 girls in it, her biggest has 22. That's her reel, too, and she's been working so hard to correct her stance and I just don't know how it'll go.

So I emailed our school's director. She likes the Memphis feis and used to send 90 competitors every year. But then Memphis was cut out of our district, so things you do there don't count towards the district championships...so this year it's 16 competitors. But this is where she learned how to run a feis and she knows the director well and likes her. Anyway, I asked her if there were enough girls in the under-10 set to do a figure dance, like a 3-hand reel.

There is.

And, depending on how it's recorded, there are either 3 teams, or just one team of 3 in that competition. So that's our insurance. It'll start the afternoon off right and then anything after that will just be extra.

But she really wants to place, at least ribbon, in the reel. And I know this. It's so much harder now that she has goals. But it's good.

And now I have to let it go and know she'll do her best and all that. At the very least, a medal for the three-hand and spend the rest of the weekend at Gran's. Not bad.