Hi.
How are you?
I am congested and spent most of the day Sunday feeling like death was imminent.
As of now, that’s also my plan for Monday.
I’ll keep you posted.
Back in the days when I was a drug rep, I had an immune system most people would envy. I spent my days sitting in overheated waiting rooms while people laden with the flu bug sneezed all around me and NOTHING. I laughed in the face of the sickness and germs. HA! You’ll have to do better than a giant petri dish disguised as a waiting room to get me sick.
But when Caroline was two, I put her in preschool where kids trade germs like peanut butter sandwiches and pacifiers and I’ve been sick ever since. Perhaps I should buy some echinachea or hose myself down with bleach.
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to whine about my head cold/pneumonia.
Actually, yes, I did mean to whine about it because no one in my house is concerned that I have allergies/yellow fever. Only the internet can pity me now.
Anyway, about two weeks ago, I took Caroline to a birthday party at the gym where she takes a Cheer/Tumble class. I have always believed that a girl needs to learn the fine art of spirit fingers and applying glitter to the corners of your eyes at a young age.
While Caroline was busy trying to flip herself over various devices, I talked to another mom who told me she had just enrolled her daughter in Karate classes. She’d actually gone to the Karate school with the intent of enrolling her youngest son because, in her words, “he’s a kid that’s probably going to get beat up a lot”, but the instructors evaluated her daughter as well and deemed her a “karate prodigy”. They agreed to take her son, but only if she’d also let them teach her daughter.
I’m not sure how you determine someone is a karate prodigy, but I guess that’s why I don’t teach karate.
Well, that and the fact that everything I know about karate I learned from Karate Kid I. WAX ON, WAX OFF.
But people, if you can’t learn about the martial arts from Ralph Macchio and Arnold from “Happy Days” then I’m not sure Karate is for you.
Anyway, this mom told me that I should think about signing Caroline up for Karate since she’s so athletic and energetic. I had to agree that it sounded like something Caroline might enjoy. I’d just never considered karate because, well, it’s karate and I couldn’t fight my way out of a paper bag, plus it doesn’t involve glitter or pom-poms.
On the way home from the party I asked Caroline if she wanted to try a Karate class and she immediately answered, “YES! I WANT TO DO THAT INSTEAD OF BALLET!”
SOLD to the girl in the booster seat in the back of the car.
Caroline and I went to observe a class last week and found out that Saturday was “Bring a Friend, Break a Board” day at the Cobra Kai Dojo, so I made plans for her to attend.
And guess what? She totally broke a board using a move called a hammer fist.
I think it’s just a matter of time before she starts wearing pants that look like the American flag and saying things like, “You think anybody wants a roundhouse kick to the face while I’m wearing these bad boys?”
While I stand beaming with pride on the side and cheer her on with spirit fingers.