Most days Helena comes home from ballet on a natural high. She thinks it is the best thing in the world and can't imagine doing anything else. When she was cast in the Chinese dance in the Nutcracker, she was on cloud nine!
Yesterday she came home from ballet totally dejected. Apparently, the 3 girls in her cast doing Chinese are not getting the dance down as fast the the directors want. Unless they can pull it off by Saturday, they will be pulled from the part. Helena desperately wants this part! She spent the evening in a lethargic depression from which I could not pull her out.
She plans to stay after at ballet today and tomorrow to put in extra practice and I hope it will be enough. She is still cast in the Arabian corps de ballet and the Waltz corp de ballet, but Chinese was the first part with high visibility she has ever received.
It is so hard to watch your child struggle! I want to comfort her and give her everything her heart desires! I hope that she can achieve this goal, but I also hope that if it is not to be, that she can rise above it and continue to do well in ballet.
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I know that feeling with Amanda and Drama. You always want them to succeed.
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