I can't wait!!!

So our baby program is growing. Fast.

Our head coach has secured a unit in which we will have our very own studio and I cannot believe where we are now! I love our team and what it stands for. The values we teach and the friendships, bonds and care it has grown is immeasurable.

I personally have found one cheer mum in particular who matches my energy soooo well. Anyone who knows me knows I lost my best friend, my unrelated little sister in a very cruel and painful way. Anyone who knows me will have seen that I have been closed off since I lost her, and unwilling to accept new people into my life too closely.

And, anyone who knows me will have seen me let someone else in this year. Another parent who laughs at the same things as me, doesn't judge, calls me out if I am being unreasonable (ok a bitch) and who has my back 1000%.

Her daughter is as obsessed as my eldest with cheerleading and all the amazing opportunities and fun that comes with it. This wonderful human is in it, like actually really in the trenches with me and I know if my gun should misfire, she would be there with hers to back me up.

Do other sports create such friendships? I honestly don't believe they do. I am in awe of the insane amount of love and care people who are brought together by one class a week can have for each other.

Of course it grows, because first you have a child who attends a rec class, they think its fab, so when tryouts roll around they of course want to attend.

Once a placement on a competition team has been given, there is excitement, a feelg of accomplishment, and parents chat between themselves.

Then there is the first comp...wow.

Everyone from the program staying in the same hotel. Everyone sharing lifts. Other people's children asking for your help if they can't see their adult in the moment. Parents hugging each other because they are just so proud and happy. Core memories are made. Things that you will all remember forever, the children, and the parents.

We are beyond lucky to have such an insanely fabulous set of people to support out program. They see what our guidance has done for their child, and they are in return, willing to help with fundraising events, hair on comp days, picking up each others children, just anything really!

So, int this new chapter we move. We have much to learn, but I know we have an amazing supportive army behind us. Afterall, there is a reason we paint war stripes on our athletes faces, and I couldn't be more excited for the adventures we are about to have together.

To the friend who has made me feel understood again, I thank you from the bottom of my broken, and now slightly mended crazy heart.

This blog has not been what I set out for it to be, like so many things I do in my life. But as always it is my truth. I hope it finds you hopeful and excited for the end of this season and the beginning of the next.

x