Tight Schedule

Cutie is off to Synchronized Ice Skating tryouts. One team wins everything. That team is 45mins away. The other is in it for the fun and only 20 minutes away.

She's wants to be on both teams. One to win and the other to have fun.

I, on the other hand, just started working in advertising again - with road trips.

What's a mom to do?

Being Pretty

Today I used the last drop of my La Prairie Skin Caviar Luxe Cream. It was a gift from when I worked on the La Prairie account 4 years ago. Tomorrow I get to crack open Avon. It will not make a bit of difference. But I can dream (or live through cutie)

Cutie is doing very well. We are in the midst of trying out for an ice skating synchro team. She doing a great job at the clinics. Something is a little off. Everyone is tense because even if you are already on the team you must try out again. Few members from the Intro class are attending. The one who are there are not really ready. Cutie is ready. And is doing quite well with drills she's never seen before. I'm wondering where the other girls who can skate are. Either they dropped out or maybe they have the right coach or know something I don't. I'm a little stressed out.

Cutie had her first encounter with boys. She and her very blond and fun friend were skating at the local rink. Two 8-10 yo boys came over to play with them. One boy was tall and a little nerdy. The other you could tell was going to be in the gorgeous category when he gets older. I could tell they came over to because of Cutie's friend. After Blondie left, they continued to play with Cutie. When the boys were leaving they asked me when do we skate. In the car, Cutie told me that one of the boys thought she was cute and she was embarrassed by this.

See why I named her cutie!

Secret Little System

Cutie has a secret little system on how to read while playing computer game. Multi-tasking is no longer for grown-ups only!

What We Learned

Cutie's first ice skating competition was last week. She looked great squeezing in all the required elements and doing other's she wasn't allowed to do. Grandma came and watched her Skyliners Intro to Synchro team prior to her competing in B6. She came in third because of all the higher level elements that were mandatory deductions. We learned that you have to play by the rules in order to win. We also now know her style is ballet.

Next stop is the exhibition at Bear Mountain in a few weeks.

On Cutie - Age 6-1/4

Size 1 shoe (for about a year now)
Size 6 clothes. On the thin size. Still a vegetarian because she doesn't want to kill animals.
Can do a great cartwheel, split, back bend. In ice skating she can do a waltz jump, salchow, and flip.
She loves The New Yorker covers and is reading cartoons. Almost all I have to sort of explain which is hard to do when there's a lot of sex involved.
She's reading both English and Hebrew.
Piano starts next month with Synchro Intro class is over.
How did I get so lucky?

What To Do?

A friend posts a link on facebook about how hard it is to raise kids. Maybe I'm just lucky, but Cutie is the easiest job I ever had - or maybe I'm just doing it wrong or maybe I'm the best mom ever.
The question - If I put it out there what am I really saying? Right - But I'm not really saying it. Do I keep it to myself? Yes - that's proper FB etiquette.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iROYzrm5SBM

Happy New Year

Two articles I happened to read last week in the Financial Times 12/29/10 that I believe are important.
ChemChina to buy 60% stake in Israel's Makhteshim Agan Industries (MA Indsutries) for 1.4 bn. And an Op Ed article by Parag Khanna, Future shock? Welcome to the new Middle Ages.
Strong China, India, Islam spreding, Europe in crises, private mercenary armies, religious radicals - What should we plan for?
http://www.paragkhanna.com/?p=956
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BR0NR20101228