just another morning here

Josiah has been invited to his first ever Suzuki violin group thing, which is a concert on Sunday, and the preceding practice on Friday afternoon. I am looking forward to it and yet dreading it all at the same time.

He can actually play all the pieces that they’re playing very nicely, and if he does make a mistake he can usually pick it back up and come in again where he’s meant to.

But I know what he’s like, I know that in a new situation he very often goes to pieces, especially if he doesn’t know people and what to expect of them, and when he does that he ends up curled up in a ball on the floor, or clinging onto my leg refusing to do anything, which is all very tiresome and embarrassing to say the least.

Still. I feel as though we’ve prepared him as much as we possibly can. He’s been to the big suzuki concert and it won’t be anything like as big or as posh as that. He can play the pieces really well, as demonstrated in his lesson this evening. Honestly, when he puts his mind to it he can play beautifully (only so often he does the stubborn ‘I’m not going to do it’ thing instead ). As much as I can (because of course I’ve never been to anything or met any of the people before myself either!) I’ve told him what might happen, what the group teacher might say, and his own teacher and I have both encouraged him loads that he will be fine.

Only time will tell! Of course these things are both this weekend when Steve is away at the Wales Rally which means I’m dreading them more than usual as whatever happens I’ll be on my own – so either he’ll miss the complete meltdown, or if all goes well, he’s going to miss Joe’s first proper performance Ho hum – more will undoubtedly follow here as the weekend unfolds!

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