Sunday, November 23, 2008
We survived last week without Sarah.
On Monday, we dropped her off with a suitcase and a sleeping bag and she went to 6th grade camp with NO contact with us (except a letter I sent that was totally lame because I had to write it before she left in order for it to get there - so it was absolute nonsense) until we picked her up on Friday!
The most sad member of the household was Gizmo, who treated Sarah's empty room like a shrine to be visited, lingered about, and wailed in for varying periods each day. We all did feel her absence, though. It was weird. The longest we have gone without Sarah's presence ever - and with NO contact?! Freaky.
After we fumigated the luggage and disinfected the child - what's amazing is not only did she survive, she loved it! And this is the little homebody who, at her first sleepover, announced to the mom in charge, "I think I had better go home. I'm not ready for a sleepover yet."
Next step: summer camp? And then... Oxford?!
But actually that's not why I'm writing this post. I'm writing this post because when we were at the Ice Arena yesterday (yes friends, 75 degrees and gorgeous in San Diego yesterday, and I'm where???), Sarah's coach told her that she would like Sarah to START COMPETING starting in March! Wow!
Sarah is very excited - and I have to say, not only is it a big accomplishment and a testament to her diligence in practicing her moves... but it's again illustrating the great mystery of genetics that she can actually DO something like this.
Watch the video below - it's not very long because I'm having a bit of a challenge filming her during the practice sections what with all the hooligans skating in front of me and falling all over the place (aka people like ME).
All I have to say is that if I tried what she is doing in this film, there would be 3 little kids skewered on my skate like a bunch of martini olives, and that's IF I was able to stay vertical (unlikely).
(Sarah is in the white hoodie and the brown skirt)
