Closing Out on a High Note
I've known Anna since before she was in diapers, when her mom Kimberly was teaching SMGC team while pregnant.
I've watched this kid grow up in the gym; it used to be a morning ritual for me to come into SMGC with my breakfast and she, when she was about 2 or 3 years old, would abandon her mommy-and-me class to come have some of my eggs over-easy and hash browns and sausage. Feeding her was a good investment on winning her affections....and it kept my weight down by losing half my breakfast to her.
I think when she was about 4 or 5, she told me she was going to marry me; now that she's a couple of years older and wiser, she'd probably laugh hysterically at how silly she was.
SMGC closing was a difficult adjustment. It was a second home where she more or less had free reign. LASG was not home, but a formal place to visit. Early on, during the transition period, Kimberly told me how they drove by the old gym (just around the corner) and Anna cried, and the reality of it all then hit Kimberly as well. A number of SMGC kids still express such sentiments of loss of their old gym.
Thursday night was Anna's last day in class. Her family is moving to Riverside. LASG was kind enough to allow her family to enroll her in three weeks of this 8 week session. Anna and her family will be missed.
Back flips are one of those extracurricular skills that are fun to learn and do, but which aren't necessary for her skill level. On Anna's last day of class, on the second round of trying them, she landed two by herself.
I've watched this kid grow up in the gym; it used to be a morning ritual for me to come into SMGC with my breakfast and she, when she was about 2 or 3 years old, would abandon her mommy-and-me class to come have some of my eggs over-easy and hash browns and sausage. Feeding her was a good investment on winning her affections....and it kept my weight down by losing half my breakfast to her.
I think when she was about 4 or 5, she told me she was going to marry me; now that she's a couple of years older and wiser, she'd probably laugh hysterically at how silly she was.
SMGC closing was a difficult adjustment. It was a second home where she more or less had free reign. LASG was not home, but a formal place to visit. Early on, during the transition period, Kimberly told me how they drove by the old gym (just around the corner) and Anna cried, and the reality of it all then hit Kimberly as well. A number of SMGC kids still express such sentiments of loss of their old gym.
Thursday night was Anna's last day in class. Her family is moving to Riverside. LASG was kind enough to allow her family to enroll her in three weeks of this 8 week session. Anna and her family will be missed.
Back flips are one of those extracurricular skills that are fun to learn and do, but which aren't necessary for her skill level. On Anna's last day of class, on the second round of trying them, she landed two by herself.
Labels: Anna Ingold, LASG Advanced, SMGC closing, What your kids have been doing in the gym
posted by The WordSmith from Nantucket at 2/20/2009 02:13:00 AM
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