Tuesday, June 12th 2007
I felt like such an idiot. While the other mothers were hooting and hollering as our kids jumped through the air and spun on the floor, I was having a full blown Hallmark Moment.
When I got home, I told my husband, “Did you know that our daughter can breakdance? You are soooo going to cry tomorrow night.”
And he will.
Do you get totally choked up when your kids perform? I can’t even make it through one line in a play without a tissue. Is this the norm?
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Yep, that’s the norm.
I started to cry last week at the parent orientation for my daughter’s summer day camp!
They really did get some height in those jumps! Very cool costumes.
My youngest has a orchestra concert tonight and she has a solo. I’m sure I’ll be bawling.
I wish I could’ve made my mother cry with all the performances I did - maybe I’ll get her with the next one!
You are so normal. And it gets worse the older they get.
I have to fight to control my tears everytime I attend a classroom event and the teacher starts in with how great the kids have been and how far they have come etc. etc.
Count me in with the cryers…my daughter’s first dance recital I could barely videotape because my eyes were too blurry.
And every school program.
MommaK, I cried when I watched my 25 yr. old daughter perform in a community play last week. I think it was supposed to have been a comedy, but not for ME! So, yes, it’s absolutely normal
Yes it is Normal.
I still cry with joy and delight. The wonders of being a MOM!
Surely you remember me crying when you walked down the aisle 8 times in the Sound of Music production? Surely you remember me sobbing at your graduation? And don’t forget the day you handed me my first granddaughter to hold! Don’t catch me in the Hallmark store picking out BD cards for my daughters - it’s pathetic! The ‘crymeter’ determines which cards to purchase.
The tender moments of motherhood pride - treasure them! There are many more coming. (I apologize right now for how I’m going to act 7/12/08 when daughter #2 walks down the aisle - somehow I think her sisters will be right with me!)
You have just described me.
Yeah, I think it’s normal. Is with me, anyway.
Please send me pictures!!!
HOW COOL IS THAT!?!?!?!?
Great pics! And I think it is completely normal!
Yes puddle of tears… at most family events. They call me “The Rock”
Any event that the children in our family perform in is an instant sob fest for me, my twin sister and our mother. One of my nephews is handicapped so we disolve in to a puddle of tears whenever he does anything. We attend the Special Olympic events and I seriously think we are the ones who are going to require oxygen and not the athletes on the field.
When I video taped my niece being born, my boo hoo sobs and sniffles are the sound track of of the movie. I couldn’t even see what I was filming because I was a blubbering mess.
Super pictuers there. You must have been really proud.
Of course I cry, and I’d probably cry watching your baby breakdance, too.
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Sorry guys, I don’t cry at my children’s performances. Usually I drool.
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OMG MommaK - They looked amazing! And I would have been lovin the break dancing!!!
Kaiden is going into year 4 of ballet/tap/jazz and I cry like a baby too! Her recital was in May and it was adoreable - I posted about it here, if your in the mood for a little chuckle!
Don’t get me started. PunditGirl has only completed K and first-grade, and I am already known as the mom who will have the pocket pack of tissues to hand out when we all start sobbing! :wave:
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In a word-yes. When my daughter did her 10 year dance solo the woman next to me said I was doing it with her in my seat.
I totally cried when Haley had her recital in May. This was her third year. She is in Dances with Soapbox SuperStar’s daughter Kaiden. They looked so great this year.
I have not checked in for a long time and the first thing I thought when I saw this was that this was your Jazzercise class break dancing! Then I read on. That is cute. Hope the recital was awesome!
It doesn’t even have to be my kid and I’m blubbering.