Katie, the Black Swan

You make a lovely black swan, supposing you don’t go all crazy. That film was brilliant, by the way.

I hwar you with all the activities as a kid. Our parents limited us to two at a time – one sport and Scouts or Girl Guides. As I got older I did three, but one of them was complementing the other. I participate in ringette, softball, swimming, ballet, tae kwon do, springboard diving, soccer, Girl Guides and Scouts. Obviously not all at the same time, but it always seemed like I was doing something every day! Now I stick to ballet lessons, teaching Brownies, and teaching my little cousin how to swim. That keeps me busy enough.

Haha. I’m that same way about the nut butter aisle at Whole Foods. Most aisles actually. Sometimes I fear I won’t live long enough to try all the deliciousness I see around me.

My daughter wears the cutest tutus and I wish they had them in my size! Haha because I would TOTALLY sport them 🙂

I was (and still am) a super active person!

I took tap and jazz, was a girl scout and played the clarinet. There were four of us girls, so it was pretty busy all the time. The chocolate peanut butter balls sound perfect for the event!

Costume parties make me so happy. Well, costumes in general. I dressed up in a Hawaiian costume for my race this past weekend- it made the whole thing so much more fun! Those chocolate PB balls look amazing!

I personally think the black swan idea was creative, however you looked too pretty to be a black swan!! Growing up I played baseball (no, not softball) in an all girls league 🙂 , I took swimming lessons at the YMCA for years, and I took Indian classical dance classes.

Was there a picture taken which showed your full costume?

Katie, you are just so gorgeous. You could easily be the black swan,
I think I am going to have to try that mushroom thing soon. It looks amazing.

As for activities. It depends really on what time in my life you look at. I am only 15, so I guess still a kid. I have tried several things though-mainly athletic. Softball, soccer, basketball, horseback riding, ballet, tap, jazz, etc. I did some art camps during the summer as well.
Now though I am not really doing anything except my appts with therapist and psychologist. I would love to be playing softball right now and/or riding horses. So relaxing.

Agh I still haven’t seen Black Swan yet, I really want to though!

I was definitely NOT a sporty kid, I preferred solitary activities, like music lessons and art classes. I did sign up to play softball though when I was 7 and quit on the morning of our first game 😀

Your hair looks gorgeous!

And so do those choc PB balls 🙂

As a kid, I was very “over-programmed”, i.e. sports of ALL kinds, dance classes, art classes, foreign language classes, academic extra curricular classes, piano lessons, saxophone lessons, you name it, I was in it. I needed a blackberry to manage my calendar from about age 5 on. (kidding…kind of.)

🙂

When I was a little kid, I played outside all day. 🙂 I had lots of neighbor kids all around me, with no reason to even wish for more activities. I remember if I wanted to have a pool party, all I’d have to do was cannonball in my kiddie pool in the back, and all the neighbor kids would hear the splash and come over to my house 🙂

I never really wanted to try anything until middleschool, when suddenly all my best friends were doing their own activities. I felt a little lost, not really knowing what I wanted, when finally I found dance in 8th grade, and loved it. 🙂 Then, my little sister was in the same predicament. Dance wasn’t her forte, so she ended up taking piano. Well, then I wanted to take piano too–but I wasn’t allowed to because it was my little sister’s thing…I understood because, at the time, I tended to excel in everything, while she kind of would drift to the back, and it would have devastated her. But I’ve always longed to play piano ever since, and now she doesn’t even play, and I am always at our antique piano in our house. My mother ended up giving it to me, because I almost started crying when I heard we might sell it, and I had no idea I’d felt that way about the thing. I think maybe it’s partially because she feels guilty for depriving me of my lessons. Debt repaid 🙂

That was very long! Oopsies 🙂

My list of activities included: ice skating lessons, soccer, voice lessons, and piano lessons.

You are a GORGEOUS swan! 😀 I know that YOU were the best-dressed swan at that party! 🙂

LOVE fudge babies! 😀

xoxo
Kathleen

Love your costume, im never creative when it comes to dressing up