we could get into a discussion of spoinling your kids, but since i have none
i won't go there... but lol to the cat, Lee
"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> Angela was supposed to sew her elastic on her pre-pointe shoes on Friday
> in class. They had the girls on pointe helping them. But the girl
> helping Angela is only 12 and apparently didn't know what she was doing.
> I felt good when I saw her take a shoe to the teacher for approval. Only
> to find they had sewn the elastic on wrong. So she had to take it off.
> Then a 15 year old tried to help her. She had exactly one stitch sewn.
>
> I tried to show her today but it didn't go well at all. Basically I think
> she doesn't want to know how to do it. But that is the rule at her
> studio. If you go en pointe, you sew your own shoes.
>
> So there I was, sewing the elastic on. I did try to force her to do just
> one piece but she kept saying she didn't understand or couldn't do it.
> Yeah, cuz she didn't try. Anyway...
>
> The baby cat was keenly interested in what I was doing. My right leg is a
> bloody mess from her jumping repeatedly in my lap to get the needle. And
> twice she caught the thread in her teeth. Held it there like a prize!
> Looked like she was flossing.
>
> And which cat was this? Ballerina. Angela named her. I said that is
> what she gets for giving her that name.
>