Winning Speaks Volumes

What a sweeeet weekend
1. 30 bday bash-success love you lisa wall
2. got to see my SISTER and Court LOVE you all
3. got to see MY Nanny and Papa!!!!!!!

Anyways... My dad called me last night on the way home from the cheer competition around 9:30. I was around spirited cheer parents, dads in tu tu's (I have got nothing on that one), loud blaring music, crazy noise makers for 11 hours. I love cheerleading...but not that much. Although the long long day going on three hours of sleep was well worth it. Back to my dad's phone call...if you don't know my dad, he might be a little bit competitive. Okay...maybe more than a little bit he is very competitive. So he always calls and goes how did you do... I said, "We did very well we placed 1st in our division and 3rd out of all level 2 teams. We got beat by two Sr. teams which could have 18 year olds on them. Our youngest is 6. We beat two large gym teams which is very hard to do considering we are small gym." His response was…” Well I am guessing no angry cheer moms” and I respond with something along the lines of “True Story” He then proceeds to say “Winning Speaks Volumes” It shouldn’t have shocked me, but I am not going to lie it did!!! After I got off the phone with him, I really started thinking about the quote. I agree winning does speak volumes, and I am certainly a huge fan of winning. I might have even been a bit angry if we didn’t win yesterday because I am a competitive person in most things I do. I don’t like to lose @ all. BUTTTTTT… I feel that our gym and our team is so much more about winning. I hope to instill good character, friendships, honesty, integrity, and always giving it your all in my kids. Then I started thinking… our kids at our gym are all of these things. We have a cheerleader that has struggled in some tumbling areas. (So at warm up…yes during WARM UP… which is like extremely intense. I become some what of a crazy at that point…) I pull our kid that is having a hard time mentally with tumbling right now to a matt. We start working on her back walk over backhand spring. She gets and as all 18 other kids watch her do it by herself. They clap for her and all scream YESSSSS! That to me is so much more important than winning 1st or coming in 3rd out of 19 teams. Their attitudes and sweet hearts SPEAK VOLUMES. It amazes me that at 6-12 years old these kids are so compassionate. I also watched at individual competition one of our kids give the “thumbs up” to another as she was about to take the floor several times. I just wanted to share this with you… because yes winning is so important (not going to lie it is very important to me) but having a sweet heart and being compassionate speaks even louder volumes. Thank you 6-12 year olds for teaching Ms. Jordan such an important lesson!!! I love you guys so much!

JC