Sweet Denial

I'm going to a feis tomorrow with Sophia and Leo. Mike has Maeve but it works out that I have Leo. Oh boy!

It's the St. Louis Gateway Feis, which she's only been to once, but with good success (she was a Beginner I that year, but she placed in both her dances). One of the judges was at Little Rock and judged Sophia 1st in her St. Patrick's Day. So I'm hopeful but that's tempered by having Leo all day. Pray that it is swift. She's on one stage the whole morning. I'm packing a lunch and ten thousand things for Leo to do.

She just wants to place in her reel. That's her goal. Mom, I'm so sick of this reel...

After the feis, we have a picnic for back to school in Tower Grove, where the International Festival will be going on at the same time. Empanadas...mmmm.

And Sunday Sophia dances at the International Festival, which is pretty darned cool, frankly, at the Forest stage at 1 pm if you want to come see.

Sometime in all this, probably Sunday post-dance, post-empanadas, I'm working in the yard. Building a short dry stack wall to create a faux raised bed--it's short both in height and in length. The faux part is because it's really going to hide some containers, since it's on top of an old concrete patio in a sad neglected yuck part of our yard.

So good night!