Proud mom of one little hippo

I think that I did something right, but in an odd roundabout way.

I will be the first to admit that I am not the best parent.  And that is not to say that I am not a good parent, but I can be a bit unconventional or lazy.

There are times when I let the boys stay up way too late just so that we can all cuddle on the couch and watch a movie.  There are nights when we have pizza for dinner and not a vegetable is in site.  We eat at the table as a family from time to time but most of the time we eat in front of the TV.  Yes.  All horrible bad things.  I know.  I am working on it.

But the point of this story is something good that I did, well, kind of...

Kellen has his big school musical this week and this is the first year that he has has a solo.  I am a very proud momma of my little hippo!  He has been mentioning that he is scared to do it and feels like he might mess up.  I told him that was normal and that he will do just fine.  I told him that I understood stage terror (my stage fright goes way past normal) and that the best thing to do it just take it as a challenge and work past it.

Side note: I have said this many times, Kellen has no clue of what burlesque is, he just knows that it involved me creating a costume and a dance and that I was scared to death to do it.  So just know that before you go calling CPS on me!

At that point Kellen said to me, "Well, if you could do that burlesque thing and you were scared, I can do this"

AWWWWW......that kids warms my heart!

So I think that in an odd crazy way my taking on the burlesque class has helped out my kids as well.  They got to see first hand how rewarding it can be to take on something scary, complete the task and be proud in the end.

And now mom knows how to make them a sparkly hippo costume if they should ever need one!