Mum was sooooooo proud!!

Now here's a story that will warm the cockles of your heart!!  Our Jo ..... you know ... the eldest of the 3 little girls is dyslexic. She is badly dyslexic. She is in Grade 3 at school now and she is still not reading very well.  She is getting there but it is very difficult for her. All the words are kinda back to front or something and the page seems to wave up and down and goodness only knows what else.  Because of her inability to learn she has been very lacking in self confidence even though we all do our best to boost what confidence she does have.   BUT ...... she is very clever in other ways and VERY creative and she loves music.  Mum and Dad bought her a piano for her birthday and she's been having lessons. Well ...... and here is the warming of the cockles bit ...... she is really nailing this piano thing. She loves it and after just a few weeks of lessons she composed her own little song. Ok so it's no Mozart but its a lovely little tune and she wrote words for it and all.  She has to do it all in her head because she can't read the music but her Teacher is amazing and just seems to have a way with Jo that works.  Last Sunday the music Teacher had arranged a Christmas concert for all of her budding musicians and Jo was to perform at her very first concert. Crikey .... we were all so nervous for her and thought she would back out at the last minute as she had done at many school performances.   Well ..... here's more warming of those cockles ..... she was brilliant. So confident!!  She walked up to that piano in front of perhaps 40 people and she sat with the straightest little back you have ever seen and she played jingle bells without one mistake. The Teacher then asked her to play her own composition and also asked if she would sing the words.  Josie said, very politely, that she would play the tune but she wouldn't sing.  This she did and again without a single mistake. She was the only one of all the performers that had written their own composition.  You should have seen Mum.  She was so proud she thought she was going to burst and the tears ....... oh my ..... the tears!!   You would have thought she HAD burst.  When Jo left the stage she did a beautiful little curtsy to the audience and was rewarded with thunderous applause.  It was as if she had done it a million times before.  She then made a beeline for her Mum for a cuddle and then to my Mum for an even bigger cuddle.  Crikey those two have a thing going on.  How good was that, aye??  Did that warm the cockles of YOUR heart???

Guess who gave her the sunflowers??  

This was during the performance.  It was such a hot day. Its a wonder her fingers didn't slip off the keys. 

She wasn't quite this confident during the performance but almost.  This was just a photo opportunity.

AND look ..... she got a medal from her Teacher and flowers from Mum.  

Some of the other performers. Jo had new silver shoes. They gave her a blister soooooooo ...  Oh and I just noticed Izzi the photo bomber!! 

Wanna run .... Love, Charlie.