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Update on the girls

Nutcracker went well for both girls. Rachel never actually got to dance as a Polichenelle, but such is the life of an understudy. Both girls had a great Christmas. Lauren's (real) mom has been declared cancer free and even has some hair back!!! We continue to keep the Guardianship of Lauren at her mom's request. Seems Lauren is really thriving with all the attentionof having 2 moms, and is actually getting up to grade level on her school work. (Thanks to an awesome teacher if I may be permitted to brag on myself a bit.) We in a lull of sorts right now as we are skipping the first competition of the season this year with the ice skating. This has given us some time to get caught up with school and family (more or less).

The next big thing is Rachel will be taking her first Ice Dancing Test this month (hopefully), and Lauren will be taking her first Figure Test in the next month(s) (as soon as a test location can be found, we seem to be short on test dates this year.)

The girls will not be performing in the annual dance recital with their dance classes this year due to a schedule conflict with a skating competition. They opted to compete instead. The next competition will be in May. Write for details as I don't post specifics on future events to this site.