Alexed

*Sara could you email me? I can't find your email address.*

I didn't work today and after school I took Alex out. Tomorrow she and Danielle start school. Next year Alex starts high school and wants to go to Laguardia Arts (the Fame school). Auditions are in December, and today we went to a ballet school that offers scholarships and will prep kids for auditions. Although you have to audition for at this ballet school too. So that's what today was. All the ballet teachers are Russian (thank god ballet is in french) and the woman told me flat out they normally give their scholarships to Russian kids who live in Brooklyn.

Then we raced to a different ballet school that also offers scholarships and is closer to where we live, so Alex could compare. She kind of grew out of her last dance school. When it gets to the point that the school focuses more on the costumes for the recitals instead of the actual dancing it's time to go.

The Russian school is going to be much harder but I think at least through Alex's audition, she needs to go there to get their help. So we are just waiting to find out about a scholarship, and if they will give one, she can start Thursday. Then we went to the Gap. I had a little bit left on a giftcard and Alex had asked if it could be for her to get something new for the first day of school. She never gets anything totally new so she really wanted her own pair of jeans. There were two that fit really well that were on sale so I added like $10 and Alex got both. When we got home Danielle had gone through all her clothes and left a big pile on Alex's bed.

Tonight was the night Josh's parents were coming over for dinner. So he and Dani started making dinner. Alex and I got home in time to set the table and um that's about all. I have a feeling Josh mostly just did whatever Danielle told him to do, because he doesn't really know how to cook. Everything came out really well though - the house smelled good when we came home.