Dana, my Ballerina

I made 2 promises before I had daughters. The first one is that no daughter of mine will wear pink. I abhor the color and I would not want to see it on my daughters. Well, if you've seen baby pictures of my daughters, you'll know that that promise didn't work out.

The second one was, no daughter of mine will dance ballet. Well, that one didn't work as well.

It was late last year, we were having breakfast when Dana exclaimed, "Mommy, gusto ko mag-ballet!" I was a bit shocked and, at the same time, curious where she got that idea. I tried to ignore her hoping that she will forget about it. Well, she didn't. She bugged me for days and insisted that I enroll her in a ballet class.

So, I searched online for ballet schools near Antipolo. I found one that's very near our home and Dana started ballet in November 2011. Since then, she had two recitals and she's getting more passionate about ballet every day.

Here are pics of Dana's last ballet recital. They did 3 numbers: Pinoy Summer, Happy Talk and Swan Lake.

If I had it my way, I would love for my daughters to study music, maybe learn to play instruments or take up voice lessons. But Dana wanted to dance. So (for) now, I am a certified ballet mom.

Anyway, I still have another daughter. Maybe she'll be my singer, or pianist, or songwriter. Who knows?

I promised myself that I would support my children's passions. I always tell them they can do whatever it is that they wanted to do, as long as they strive to be the best at it.