My eight year old Laura just absolutely amazes me every day with all her good goofiness. Her elementary school gave out handouts to all kids for a talent show where the winner will be able to sing the national anthem at the annual fourth of July parade. To her its a no-brainer, she's going to win! Now, of all the things that she has inherited from Daddy, one is the natural singing ability..or lack thereof. She has been practicing all the time singing the national anthem and the All in the Family theme song, deciding which one she will sing. Hmmm, what to tell her about the actual ability. My decision is let her rip it out..why the heck not. Last month, we went to one of those phoney talent auditions for acting on the Disney Channel shows. Knowing it was a fraud, we still went and let her read some lines from a commercial. She did fantastic as did Jimmy. The "talent scout" was all excited about her and wanted us to come to Florida for a tryout for national talent scouts....for a sum of money, of course. She told me that she didnt want to leave her friends here so we couldnt move to Florida. She did really well and was so cute reading those lines too.
Tonight was a night out at the roller skating rink for her school. Catherine, Laura and I went for some rolling around the rink. It would have been no problem except for the fact that none of us knew how to skate. I actually used to roller skate, once or twice about 35 years ago. The good news is that I didnt fall but Laura and Catherine have sore bum bums. They stopped when it was time for racing. The boys all lined up and raced very fast around the rink....like really flying. So now it was time for the young ladies. Laura couldnt wait to go line up. About twenty girls were with her and off she went, step by step, inch by inch she made it around the rink about two minutes after everyone else. It was great! She couldnt care less that she was dead last. And everyone had to wait forever for her to come in. They were lining up for the next race when she came in. She was all ready to join the next race too. She has that confidence and carefree attitude that makes her special.
Catherine started slowly also. She didnt like that for the first four or five times around she kept falling, and yes, there were tears. But all of a sudden, she asked me to let her skate alone. She still fell alot but sure enough, she stuck it out and wouldnt leave the floor. She came up to me a couple of times with a little quivering lip from a hard fall but shortly got over it. She was great!! Catherine wants to sing the national anthem also. They will do it if I cant figure out an excuse to get out of it.
Tonight was a night out at the roller skating rink for her school. Catherine, Laura and I went for some rolling around the rink. It would have been no problem except for the fact that none of us knew how to skate. I actually used to roller skate, once or twice about 35 years ago. The good news is that I didnt fall but Laura and Catherine have sore bum bums. They stopped when it was time for racing. The boys all lined up and raced very fast around the rink....like really flying. So now it was time for the young ladies. Laura couldnt wait to go line up. About twenty girls were with her and off she went, step by step, inch by inch she made it around the rink about two minutes after everyone else. It was great! She couldnt care less that she was dead last. And everyone had to wait forever for her to come in. They were lining up for the next race when she came in. She was all ready to join the next race too. She has that confidence and carefree attitude that makes her special.
Catherine started slowly also. She didnt like that for the first four or five times around she kept falling, and yes, there were tears. But all of a sudden, she asked me to let her skate alone. She still fell alot but sure enough, she stuck it out and wouldnt leave the floor. She came up to me a couple of times with a little quivering lip from a hard fall but shortly got over it. She was great!! Catherine wants to sing the national anthem also. They will do it if I cant figure out an excuse to get out of it.
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