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"Mommy, you rock!"

Mon Apr 28, 2008 at 08:44:57 AM PDT

I've got it in writing, on an evaluation form, no less.  I officially "rock" according to my kindergarten daughter!

This irreplaceable, suitable-for-framing document came about in this way:

I ring handbells with a semi-pro auditioned community group.  It takes a great deal of time and commitment, but every semester we pull together a concert program of varied, challenging repertoire.  We've just finished with this spring's concerts, and my husband and daughter attended as they always do.

Mommy undergoes quite the transformation on performance night.  These are among the few occasions that I actually pull out the makeup and the curling iron.  Then there's the tux shirt & bow tie, the sequined vest, the white gloves -- and the onstage actress/musician persona emerges, so different from the daily mommy-routine of scrambling to pack the backpack and nagging about brushing teeth.

So as my daughter was sitting in the audience listening to the music and watching me & my colleagues put the bells through their paces, she was busily filling out the feedback form included in the concert program.

Her feedback was:

I like the consrt.
I love your cloth's.
I love you!!!!!!  
Mommy you rock!

I'm under no illusions that I'll "rock" forever.  In fact, I only occasionally rock right now.  And I imagine that in a few years, as she hits pre-teen-hood, I'll become terminally un-cool, not to mention downright embarrassing.

But as of the other night, I rock.

How about you?  Do you rock?  Are you an embarrassment?  Or both?  At what age do you find that such transitions hit?

Tags: kindergarten, music appreciation (all tags)

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