Dear Friends,
Please Save These Dates!
We have FIVE special birthday celebrations coming up in the next three weeks before our summer vacation schedule. We would love to have you join us if you can! Please mark your calendars:
THIS Tuesday, May 26th 9:30am-10:45am Stop Drop and Dance
Happy Birthday Sharon Mor
THEME: Come as you are!
THIS Thursday, May 28th 9:30am-10:45am Stop Drop and Dance
Happy Birthday Elizabeth Valosek
THEME: Put the GEM in Gemini and wear BRIGHT colors!
Tuesday, June 2nd 9:30am-10:45am Stop Drop and Dance
Happy 50TH Birthday Sara Rainbolt
THEME: MADONNA
Tuesday, June 9th 9:30am-10:45am Stop Drop and Dance
Happy Birthday Kristen Sperling
THEME: TBD
Saturday, June 13th 9:30am-10:30am Stop Drop and Dance
Happy Birthday Karin Conn - Fundraiser for Believe Music Heals
THEME: Viva Las Vegas Baby!
In addition, please note our summer schedule and breaks from live classes in our calendar. I have to miss classes for my daughter's 8th grade graduation week of busy events and then our family will be traveling to Japan! Thank you for your understanding and please remember all our previously-live classes are available on-demand!
Smile Through The Chaos
The past two weeks we hosted two fifth-grade girls from Taipei and it has been B.U.S.Y. For those of you who raised or are raising FOUR kids, I commend you. It was a lot of opinions, a lot of cultural differences, a lot of extra groceries and laundry, and since they were visiting, it was a lot of sightseeing and shopping that we would not normally be doing after school on a regular school day.
Truthfully, it was EXHAUSTING.
But, as we said goodbye this weekend and sent them off to the airport to return to their normal Taiwan lives, there were a lot of tears from everyone. What an incredibly unique experience for my daughter to have had the opportunity to live in Taiwan for a week as a true local there, and for these two girls to be a part of our Chinese-American family.
I know they will always remember this exchange trip - sleeping in a bunk bed together, putting on fake nails with Rylee, eating In N Out and Krispy Kreme, shopping at Sephora, playing at Great Wolf Lodge, watching Zaydee's Rock Band performance and Flag Football games, and experiencing normal school life and going on field trips! We are all grateful.
"No matter what you're going through - joy or pain, success or struggle - remember, life itself is a gift.
Not every day will be perfect. Some days will test you, others will bless you. But EVERYDAY TEACHES YOU.
Celebrate the small wins. Dance in the rain. Smile through the chaos. Laugh even when things don't go as planned. Because one day, you'll look back and realize that it was all part of the beautiful journey.
Choose to celebrate life - not just when it's easy, but especially when it's hard.
You're alive. That's your biggest power. Make it count."
Love,
Grace
Dancers in the Wild!
Left Column: Jaime Dillon, Tanya Burdick, Elizabeth Valosek, & Karin Conn watching Barbara Robert's perform as "Powell" in the College of Marin play, "Men on Boats."
Middle Column: My four daughters the past 2 weeks, the girls from the Taiwan delegation came to last Saturday's dance class, and a very special Pink class from a week ago (wish you all had been there...).
Right Column: Kristen Sperling & Grace at the Marin Health Gala last weekend, Debby's 3 month post-double-knee-surgery return to Strength & Stretch class, and Bonnie Kirkpatrick and Eliza Desch at Mustache Harbor!
