Summer Holidays

Well, we are half way thru the summer holidays and a week without dance classes! It's not as if Emma hasn't been dancing around the house like a mad child. We did watch the live feeds, as much as we could, from the North American Irish Dance Championships, which helped us to keep on the roll of practicing. Our school, Tir Conaill Academy, had 3 top 10 finishers. It was a good run for our school. The next feis is the 1st weekend of August & I'm starting to stress out. There will only be 1 class before & I really want Emma to move up in the Slip Jig & her heavy dances. It would be nice to not have to do a quick change from the solo dress to the school jumper & back again for the lights & I'm not taking both costumes to Boston with us for the feis the following weekend! Emma has the Treble/double jig & Hornpipe down & all we need to work on is the set of St. Patrick's Day. I don't want to push or overwhelm her (as she will shortly be "just 6") but she loves it & she has the potential & her teachers see that as well. We are off to see some improv & then maybe 30min of practice with the promise of a swim later on when the sun isn't beating down on us!