{"id":5007,"date":"2014-06-21T13:53:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T17:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=5007"},"modified":"2014-06-21T13:53:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T17:53:06","slug":"breaking-away-from-the-dance-of-mommying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/21\/breaking-away-from-the-dance-of-mommying\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Away from the Dance of Mommying"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s been quite a dancing week for me and while I\u2019m exhausted and sore and probably won\u2019t be able to walk tomorrow (or the days following even), I feel exhilarated, energized and ready for more!<\/p>\n

In addition to my 7.5 hours of teaching (this past week, last week and next week are a bit strange in the fact that I teach summer camp in the mornings and we are finishing up our evening classes as well so I\u2019m teaching a lot more than usual).\u00a0 But the best and most rare part is I took THREE full ballet classes this week!<\/p>\n

Ten years ago, I would have laughed at such a schedule being unusual but the last time I took three classes in one week was probably before I broke my foot (before I was married and before I had kids).\u00a0 I tried to take as many classes as possible while in Dublin when Sugarplum was old enough for me to be away but couldn\u2019t afford a babysitter more than twice a week.\u00a0 And while I enjoyed my weekly ballet class while pregnant with Doodle, a second class a week was just a dream!<\/p>\n

Even though Doodle has been able to be away from me long enough for me to go to a class for a while, my teaching schedule has prohibited me from returning to my weekly class.\u00a0 But now that my summer schedule has started, I\u2019m free to get going again!\u00a0 (I desperately wanted to go last Saturday morning since I didn\u2019t have to teach but it was performance day for Honeybun and my students and I would have been too rushed so decided not to go.)<\/p>\n

This week just happened to work out that my parents were in town and graciously watched my children so I could go take the classes but with them leaving next week I\u2019ll be stuck just taking my weekly Saturday morning class.<\/p>\n

\"DSC09643\"<\/a>\u00a0As a full-time, stay-at-home, in-it-all-the-flipping-time mommy, those moments of getting away are magical.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had very few chances lately to do anything aside from being with my children and working with other people\u2019s children.\u00a0 My aunt did watch the little ones twice this spring so I could go take class but I still wish I was able to go more, to have that time to just be me and not a mommy.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s common advice now for mommies to take the time to do things for themselves and it is really important to just be alone but I\u2019ve found it so much more important to take that time and do something that I really love.\u00a0 Just being alone at the grocery store and even having coffee alone with a friend is not the same.<\/p>\n

When I was a teenager my teacher used to constantly tell us that the dance studio was a safe place, a place where we should leave all our worries, concerns and problems at the door. A place where for that hour and a half you could put everything else aside and only focus on dancing.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t understand it back then and even struggled with focusing on only dancing through college.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until I was dancing on my own time, until I was working full time and paying for my own classes and needed that break from my life that I really understood the magic of a dance class.<\/p>\n

Even now, the only time I truly forget about my kids is when I\u2019m in the dance studio.\u00a0 Sometimes I lose myself while teaching but often I still check my phone during water breaks to make sure the kids are okay.\u00a0 When I take class though, I focus completely on dancing.\u00a0 My children don\u2019t even usually cross my mind as I focus on the movement and working my body properly.\u00a0 It\u2019s really the only \u201cme\u201d time I get these days and it is precious!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been quite a dancing week for me and while I\u2019m exhausted and sore and probably won\u2019t be able to walk tomorrow (or the days following even), I feel exhilarated, energized and ready for more! In addition to my 7.5 hours of teaching (this past week, last week and next week are a bit strange […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-ballerina-mama","category-family-life","category-mommy-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5008,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions\/5008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}