Today was J's first belt testing for Tae Kwon Do. He was excited and nervous and I was just nervous he'd be OK and not fall asleep or walk off or something else weird. In the hour before, we were doing the typical last minute running around. J picked up his board and was demonstrating what he would do when it came his time to break it and.... broke it. I had been guarding it so carefully but had it sitting out so we would have it ready when it was time to go.
I was in a panic. What do we do now? I tried gluing it together and that didn't work. Then I did the next best sensible thing--posted it on facebook. Luckily two friends posted right away and basically said they would probably have other boards that I could pick up. So, this calmed me down. We went and I asked right away and I got a new board-crisis averted.
The testing took forever, of course. He did fine. There were somethings he just glided through but I don't think he did worse than anyone else--attention spans of 5 year olds are so limited.
My favorite quote of the day: I told J I was proud of him. He said: It's not my fault, it's God's-you should thank him. Amen!
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