My mother attended all my dance concerts. She liked to arrive early and would sit in the auditorium with her knitting and or crocheting quite content to wait out the hour or so before the concert began.
From my earliest age she had sent me to dance lessons. She loved sewing and the arrival home of the next dance costume was always greeted with great excitement as she planned to make my costume the best she could. The only item she didn’t like sewing were bugle beads. They looked fantastic on your costume as they dangled down from under your arm but the sewing onto the costume took hours and when my costume required bugle beads you could see her cringe at the thought of the long hours she’d spend securing them to my costume. Needless to say, she was the proudest mum at every concert I danced in.
Morpethroad 
My cousins took dance lessons and I remember the beautiful hand-made costumes covered with sequins.
Thanks Patricia my girls were involved for many years, bugle beads were a nightmare.
This took me back to when my girls did Calisthenics and I had to sew sequins…. This mother loved doing it… I did not, but I watched every concert with love.
Thanks Jenny the costumes were often highly stress inducing.
Sweet story.
Thank Kim appreciate you reading my work.
A nice nostalgic feel to this one.
I had to look up bugle beads. They do look like they would be tricky to work with.
I can imagine the feeling of mom/mum at your concerts. Probably the same feelings I have at my kids’ activities too. 🙂
Oh yes I bet you are a mom who who plays the game with your daughter from the stand, like mums at singing competitions who mouth all the words to the song their child is singing.
I should point out one time my daughter had a costume which required bugle beads the entire length of each time and they are very finnicky to sew so by 2am the day of the concert my normally insane ex was even more insane, understandably, and the sewing of bugle beads was abandoned. Teacher never noticed or said anything..
What a good mother.. lovely tale…
Thanks Bjorn, she must have had the patience of Job.
A great mom…and much to be proud of too!
Thank Georgia, I came across a lot of these Mums when my kids were dancing.
Ah, so it was a bit of true fiction! A tribute to Mums! Like it even better!
A lovely little piece, a nice slice of history. Wonderful!
Thank you so much.
Love this. A great snapshot of life, with such warmth.
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