Thursday, July 17, 2008

Camp Show Mode

This means that everyday, I am spending the majority of my day, dancing, teaching dancing, teaching a song in sign and dancing more. Teaching kids, teaching staff ... moving and sweating my face off!

Our 4th Annual Camp Show is a week from today ... yep, one week left to make sure 100+ kids know their dances, and my staff ... which I am teaching again today ...

This year the theme is Around the World. So every group, (1st graders, 2nd ... etc) have a dance ... Life is a Highway, Walk Like an Egyptian ... get it?!? The staff medley is about 8 minutes long, complete with the YMCA song, We are the World, Rock the Casbah, Born in the U.S.A and more ridiculousness ... it is really so much fun, and again it just makes me realize again how much I love to sing and dance and be a total spaz ... which I know is not surprising to anyone reading this. I do love it, I love to teach it ... oh, and the grand finale is the entire camp signing "God Bless the U.S.A" ... tear-jerker.

I realized something this morning ... I was looking at myself in the mirror and really was so thankful for the weight I have lost thus far ... thinking, it's so nice to see myself like this physically ... as it has been quite a while and I just felt such an overwhelming sense of confidence in what is to come as well. Then I thought too, it is amazing to see myself like this emotionally as well ... this is new ground for me ... this is a place of emotional healing I have desired for years, and as I work through life, forgiveness of myself and others, I feel freedom beyond anything I can explain ... Divine freedom. God is so good.

So, a week left to go ... more dancing, singing and signing today ... Life just feels amazing at this moment, to watch 100 campers sign "God Bless the U.S.A" ... to feel so thankful for the place I am at right now, to be silly and get paid (not much) for it ... to watch my own son on stage dancing and playing the air guitar ... to hear my 2 year old say "oh my gosh" ... blessings abound and my heart is overwhelmed with gratitude.

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