Peace and Understanding

I am feeling emotionally better this week. It was rough last week, but I am making progress. I had a good week to take off. It was absolutely gorgeous in Georgia every day last week. Mid 70's and warm Fall temps. I wallowed in pity on Monday. Tuesday my husband met me for lunch. We went through the drive-thru of KFC and took chicken plates to Fort Yargo where we ate lunch by the lake and took a nice stroll down a nature trail. We were able to talk about a lot of stuff that was burdening us. I went to work on Friday feeling much more at peace.



My Tori-bug is practicing hard on her gymnastics. She only has about 6 weeks of practice left before the first meet. All of her skills are shaping up nicely. She was struggling with not wanting to jump to the high bar a few weeks ago. Now she is jumping with absolutely no problem. Her dismount still needs work. She is not getting enough height on it and is sometimes squatting or falling on the dismount. If her hands or bottom hit the mat it is counted as a fall. 5/10th. of a point off her score automatically. The rest of it looks pretty good. Her floor looks really good and she is mostly spot-on with the music. It needs to be tightened up some, i.e. hand placement and such. Her front handspring doesn't look as graceful as she needs it to, but she is landing it. Beam she was struggling on the full turn, but finally has it now too. A lot of the girls are having a hard time on beam with their cartwheels. This is our (parents) biggest event of concern. We know the girls will do well at meets on the other events, but since so many are struggling on beam we are worried. The girls have worked so hard and will continue to work hard until the meets. Hopefully, they will get the skills they need. I am so proud of every one of them.

Thanks for stopping by!
Wendy