Hello Tired Troopers!
LET’S GET READY TO RUMBLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! 🎤 🎶 🎵 Are you ready for this?! Dun, dun, dun, dun dun dun dun, dun dun, dun dun dun dun dun… 🎶
Mom signed us up for cheer camp every year. I liked it when I was really small, but after that not so much. Well one year she signed my little sister and I up late, we missed the first day or week or something like that. So we were behind in the routine. But my mom convinced the high school cheerleaders who were teaching the camp that we would pick up the routine “in no time…” well we literally jumped into the deep end with both feet. The cheerleaders put my sister and I up front because we didn’t know the routine yet. Great.
The instructor puts one arm straight out to the side and the other on her hip and starts doing the cross kick. You know, like the Rocketts signature kicks. Well we were supposed to be partnered up in groups of 2, so my little sister and I were partners. I started imitating the instructor perfectly, by doing EXACTLY what she was doing. My little sister looked around at the other little girls and tried to put her arm up on my shoulder. I pushed her off and basically said, stop it, what are you doing…? Just follow along here – we have A LOT to learn, so pay attention! Well she just kind of stood there looking around at everyone, which i noticed, so I did too… the reason they had us all partnered up was because you were supposed to cross arms with your partner by putting one arm on their shoulder and the other on your hip… oh holy balls! The reason the instructor wasn’t doing this is because she was BY HERSELF! JUST KILL ME NOW.
So, once I realized this, i grabbed my little sister and whipped her around into position and started kicking as a pair like we were supposed to. I basically acted like she was the dork who didn’t get it initially when the whole time she was trying to very politely tell me how to actually do it! Ugh! What a sweetheart and WHAT AN ASS! But i was just so embarrassed and had previously learned to blame certain things on my sweet little sis lol to add insult to injury, I wasn’t kicking across my body like the instructor was. I was kicking out to the side. So right leg kicks right, left leg kicks left all while holding one arm straight out to the side with the other on my hip in the very front row of all the kids. Yep. I love this cheer camp thing 😬🫣🙄 Needless to say that was my last year doing cheer camp! Ra, ra, shish, boom, ba! Go, Team, Go!
So, yes, I’m going to try to give my kids every opportunity, but I’m also going to try and listen to them when they truly aren’t interested anymore. Which is hard, cause you also don’t want to raise quitters, ect., ect! Ugh, being a parent is HARD! Bottom line, cheer wasn’t for me and little sisters can be right … sometimes.😏
