Amazing how she gets it

I would rather be with God than cheerleading practice.


My sweet girl amazes me. We kept our weekly activities of piano and gymnastics that can be moved around if need be or made up at a later date if something comes up, but we added no new activities because we knew that cheerleading would take up a lot of time.

Well after rearranging our schedule at the beginning of the season to accommodate for TTSat practice, I had to rearrange it a month into the season to accommodate for MWF practices.

No problem, we switched everything around. But practices keep changing and I am having to rush from one thing to the other or reschedule our other events for changed practices.

But then one was rescheduled for Sunday. I am sorry, we have a commitment with Awana, serving as well as attending. I didn't even tell Ladybug that she would miss a practice.

Well the next night was game night. So it was cheer as normal but then a new cheer was called that she didn't know. Her coach told her to sit down if she didn't know it. I watched SEVEN of the 14 kids sit down. Half the team missed that one practice and didn't learn a new cheer.

Then when my daughter tried to join in on the second round of the cheer I watched her get reprimanded and told to sit back down that she didn't know it.

So as a mom I am a little frustrated. Her face just got sad and she didn't understand why she couldn't cheer and I couldn't understand why a coach would want to do a cheer in front of the stands that only half the team knew.

At half time, she asked what happened. I explained that a practice was called during AWANA the previous night. Some new cheers were taught.

She just looked at me and said, I would rather be with God, than at cheer practice.

She gets it. I love her to death. I know I made the right decision not attending this cheer practice but I struggle with her feeling left out because she missed something. But when she had all the facts, she simply would have made the same decision.

Grace, I need to practice more. Patience, I need to practice more. Acceptance, I need to practice more. Hard lessons to learn from a 7 year old.