It’s almost the weekend!!
A Matt-made Chicken + Avocado Sandwich. With tomato, mustard, salt, pepper + lettuce.
Matt sure knows how to pack in a sandwich!
On the side I packed a nice veggie-friendly salad – with a bit of bleu cheese!! This bleu cheese is quite unique – unlike any I’ve tasted before!
Dessert – 62% amazing
That apple + almond stash there is my afternoon snack! I’m hoping to SWIM today!
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Did you know I used to be a dancer!?
Tap. Jazz. Ballet. Lyrical. A little hip hop. A few years of pointe and gymnastics. My school was not competitive, but it was always fun. I hope when I get to Cville that I can take dance with my new friend Jess who teaches there! I was in the dance ensemble in college too. Dancing is fun 
Fifth Grade
Check. Me. Out! Ha!
Sixth Grade
Twelfth Grade
Calling all dancers! What did you do?
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Wow! Did you compete lots and stuff?
I wish I could dance – any sort of dance talent would do, even disco…alas!
Have a good afternoon!
omg you are too cute
i love when you post old pictures of you!
That grade 5 outfit is hilarious!
Perfect lunch! That sandwich and salad look divine!
Cute pictures!! You look exactly the same.
Jenn
Hahahah so cute! I have a slew of similar pictures as I also did tap, jazz, ballet and pointe for 18 years. Great memories!
Holy crap kath…I just posted something about me being a dancer as a kid! I did not include pics though. Too cute! I did tap, jazz and ballet as a tiny one! My sister and I used to make up our own routines! I wish I never gave it up. Is it ever too late to get back into it??? Just kidding…I will just drive my family crazy with my random moves.
I was a competitive Irish Step dancer.
How neat Kath! I want to hear the story behind this… what kind of dance did you do? Did you compete?
How cute Kath!!!!
Thanks for sharing!
I did tap, jazz and ballet when I was younger and continued with ballet through college…I too have some amazing pictures of me in sparkly leotards…When I was in fifth grade, we did a jazz routine to “Love Child” and wore crop tops and graffiti-ed hammer pants…awesome.
P.s. We have identical afternoon snacks today!
Yay! I didn’t know you were a dancer! I danced from when I was 5 all the way through college – mostly studio stuff with a little pointe and acrobatics thrown in there. I miss it terribly, but I found a studio near my apt in Chicago that does pay-as-you-go classes. How fun!
I am the worst dancer everrrrrrr! I am just a runner…but did ballet when young. I just don’t have rhythm, unfortunately. Love that matt makes you amazing lunches!
HAHA! I looooove that picture of you in 5th grade the best! I used to do ballet when I was a little girl but never stuck with it.
I was an Irish step dancer growing up! Sometimes I still break it out… usually beer has a part in this.
Aww, lovin’ the flashback pics!! I did dance…for 1 day…I was two years old and I apparently just didn’t like it. I wish I had stuck with it because I love dance now!! Also, what kind of bread is that?? I assume it’s Great Harvest but it looks amaazing!
Flax Oat Bran from GH
Your dance pictures are so cute!!! I didn’t do anything physical when I was young, though I tried a few different sports in middle school! I was not exactly athletically gifted! I loved choir though!
Tap (my favorite)
Salsa (another favorite, but different)
Jazz
Lyrical
Ballet
Pointe (wasn’t very good)
Hip Hop (fun!)
I danced from 3-24 and taught dance from 21-24. I miss teaching so much. Our studio is not competitive either.
I miss dance!
I did ballet, tap, jazz, and ballroom – all my life (well, ages 5 until about 20)
I did ballet for 15 years, tap for 3, jazz for 10, lyrical for 7,pointe for 8, and hip hop for 2. Stopped dancing when I went to college (except for a few choreographed things for my sorority) but I miss it terribly!
Haha those pictures are too funny! I was never a dancer–quite the opposite really, but I did do gymnastics in middle and high school. I also take Zumba lessons. Hopefully I’m getting better at it!
I had an avo sandwich for lunch too! Unfortunately I have absolutely no dancing ability so I have no dance background.
Ballet, tap and jazz for a few years. My favorite outfit was a black and yellow bee costume with a bright yellow tutu.
You should come dance with me again! i hope you can take my class before you move!
Imagining me here chomping on my strawberries getting a random shout out! Woooo!! You best be dancing in Cville!
Lets see…I teach advanced jazz and beginner and advanced ballet. I do jazz, hip hop, contemporary and salsa. (I did NOTHING but ballet till 17 though!)
love the pics! i did ballet from age 3-17 and jazz from age 12-17! i miss it!!!
I love hip hop and tap, no contest.
Hey Kath–do you ever eat white chocolate? I know it’s made of mostly cream, cocoa butter, and sugar, but do you like the taste?
I’ve never really liked white chocolate!
KATH! you just made my day. mini dancing kath was the cutest ever.
Haha That’s awesome. I was a dancer too- with the same embarassing photos to prove it!
Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Pointe… for over 13 years!
ok so ive been reading your blog for over a year now… but i just had to “de-lurk” (man i hate that word lol) to comment on this…. your old dance photos are too cute! i have many as well becuase im i professional ballet dancer… definitly a hard career, but well worth it
… anyway, love your blog!
-katrina
Thanks for de-lurking!
Old dance pics are the BEST!!!! I dabbled in ballet & jazz, but my heart and soul were in hip hop
butternut squash + tofu + avocado + a ton of vegs and greens is one of my new fave salads.
Matt is like the sandwich master!
I took tap, jazz, and ballet! And clogging!
I took ballet as a kid, but then moved onto gymnastics. In High School I was a Majorette, or baton twirler. : ) It was a really fun unique sport!
And yes, old pics rock. Thanks for sharing! (and that sandwich looks sooo delish.)
ballet!! I was *the* Nutcracker one year
I didn’t know you could dance! That’s fantastic. Dancing is something I wished I would have stuck with in spite of the fact that I really don’t have the body type for it. I did a year of ballet and tap when I was 4, and it just didn’t jive with my four-year old self. I shake my head at four-year old Lindsay.
Now, I have the masterful ability to dance awkwardly. I do like to dance though even if I don’t have any “moves”, so to speak of.
I took tap Jazz and gymnastics
old school pictures are so fun.
those pics are Ah-mazing!! Thanks for sharing! my personal fav is the first one where you have on the top-hat
I had no idea you danced, except for that one time you posted a video of you dancing – that’s a sign of a true dancer ; )
I danced jazz, tap & hip-hop competitively ’til 12th grade. I also did gymnastics when I was younger too (unitl 8th grade). Oh how I miss it so!
Oh my gosh – those dance pictures brought back flashbacks of my old dance pictures. I used to take tap and jazz but dropped the jazz in favor of tap. I love tap dancing – I did it for a few years after college as well. I would love to get back into it as well – but I can’t seem to find a studio I like!
I used to LOVE dance–but I was never extraordinarily good at it, haha. I took ballet, jazz and lyrical classes and did my high school dance team for 2 years before becoming a “drama kid”–and I flexed my jazz hands in the dance chorus of every musical
Now I just dance in my room (usually to showtunes and *ahem* the Glee soundtrack) because I’m still a theater geek at heart.
I was never a dancer, but my 5 year old starts her first dance & tumbling class next week. I’m so excited!
Kath, I can honestly say I was never great at dancing but I am thinking that I would look pretty sharp in your Grade 5 outfit!
zest
Lots of jazz and tap through high school. Sporadic classes since then. I wish I did it more now! I also have lots of those awesome awkwardly posed photos. Haha.
I believe I danced with the Jess you mentioned in college. I am glad to see she is still dancing. Hi Jess!
I wasn’t in anything competitive, but throughout middle school and high school I was involved in ballet, jazz, Irish dance (soft shoe), square, swing, latin, and ballroom dancing. Attended a lyrical dance class once. Loved it, but parents couldn’t afford the studio. In elementary school I was in gymnastics for a time.
I now do Zumba and am seriously considering getting certfied to teach it! That is, if I can ever come up with a spare $200 for the workshop.
omg the dance costumes are always so insane! When I was little I took ballet, jazz and tap. Now I save my dancing for zumba class, booty dancing on the dance floor and randomly dancing around my house…so I guess I don’t really save my dancing at all!
I have never been a dancer untill now. We dance to Mr Noodle(sesame street) and any fun music that comes on.
LOL…those pictures are awesome! I took ballet for a few years when I was young, but quit when it was obvious that I had NO talent. I am such a bad dancer– I think that’s why I’m obsessed with movies about dancing!
Oiy the old dance pictures. I danced for 15 years before going to college. I started out with tap and jazz and then added ballet, lyrical and modern until high school when I focused more on Irish Step. I took 2 classes during my freshman year of college but by that time, I got got burned out. I used to dance up to 20 hours a week with rehearsals and competitions over the weekend so it was my life growing up and when college came, I wanted to try something different.
Now I stick to yoga and leave professional dancing to some of my friends. It’s fun to watch SO You Think You Can Dance now though because last season was actually the first time I didn’t know/competed against one of the top 3 contestants. Small world!!!
i used to dance too! for 5 years. i quit though because my studio wasn’t that great – they would only move the girls who gave a lot of money to the studio up to higher levels. ridic!
i’m loving your blast from the past pictures
they are fun. I danced when i was little but i’m not sure why i let it go…it was fun!! Ava loves dancing…in her b-day suit around the house…hilarious. i need to get her formal lessons stat.
Ballet, tap, jazz & modern! I danced from 5 years old through my first year of college!
Too cute.
I took tap and ballet when I was very young–like 5 and 6. Then no formal classes till I moved to NYC–where I took adult ballet classes for about 5 years on and off. Loved it!! You can start back as a beginner or go straight to intermediate/advanced. So fun.
(When I saw the comment above, I realized I’ve never officially “delurked”–just commented first during your Africa trip. Your blog is usually the first I look at in the morning! I love the mix in the entries–food, exercise, trips, family photos–perfect! )
I love your dance outfits! I did gymnastics for a day, I think. I did dance for a few years but then again I have done every sport known to man.
LOVE the pics!
I would love to take up dancing…I’m so uncoordinated, it’s not even funny. But it would still be fun.
Tap and Jazz and I am reminded of those wonderfully flashy outfits each time I see pictures at my parent’s house!
Too Cute! I did tap and jazz for 16 years. I can’t believe how long it has been since i’ve put on my tap shoes, at least 8 years. I do miss it though.
I did ballet for 11 years – pointe for 6. Jazz and Tap for about 5 or 6. I stopped when I was 16 and then went back again to ballet and pointe when I was 25 or so for a few years.
Now all the dancing I do is at Zumba. Still love it though!
Such cute photos! I used to be a HUGE dancer– ballet mostly until age 12, then I fell in love with modern. I spent four years dancing with a phenomenal pre-professional modern dance company called Balance. Not only did I grow as a dancer (it was HARD WORK to dance six days a week for hours!) but the company’s focus was on helping us girls grow in self-confidence and strength and BALANCE in all things. It was wonderful. Now that I live in NYC, hot vinyasa yoga is the closest thing to modern dance without paying the exorbitant fees– it’s like dancing with your breath!
Right now is the first time in my whole life I haven’t been dancing!! I did everything- I even minored in it in college just for fun
What do you mean, did? I Irish dance now!
I danced for 18 years and still miss it!
I did tap & jazz. Ballet never really appealed to me, but I had wished I had the opportunity to try hip-hop.
I did tap, jazz and modern in college but you know what I LOVE now ZUMBA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you’ve never done it, Kath, you have to find one and try it. I love it so much I even cry a little at some point during the class-and even my shins sweat-if that tells you anything, Tiny Dancer!
I took line dancing and square dancing. I just realized how much of a country bumpkin that sounds but it was SO SO fun. I’d do it again if I could find a place near by!
AMAZING looking lunch! So much health!
That’s so cool you were a dancer! I wasn’t largely because they didn’t offer anything like that in my area.
I got into dance my senior year of high school when I took a jazz class. Then I got to college and minored in dance, which included mostly modern, Indian (Bharata Natyam), and African (Ghanaian) dances. Loved it, and I miss it now, but every now and then I find a class to take.
Those pictures are PRICELESS! Love it. Nope – not a dancer here!
What awesome dance pics!!! I did a few years of jazz ballet – but traded it in for tennis and athletics
oh my god the pix of you are great! i used to do ballet when i was a kid and did some modern in college. i miss dancing.
Haha, yes Kath!!! I was an INTENSE competitive dancer!! I danced 30-40 hours a week on top of a full elementary school/highschool load and competed across North America. Part of me loved/loves it, but part of me hates it. The pressure, the stress…it all got to be too much!! Glad you still have a passion for dance! After all that intensity, it has taken me 2 years of University to recover, but my desire to dance is slowly starting to creep back in. Like they said in Glee 2 weeks ago- I feel like a dark hole…I need dance!!!
When I was little and living in America, I did ballet and tap, and I LOVED the tap. I tried to find a class here in Canberra, but there was nothing just for people wanting to have fun, only classes that led to concerts wearing sequins and glitter and lycra – not my thing!
Oh, BALLET! I actually still do ballet! I’m going to be taking my grade 8 RAD exam in July. It’s so cool to know that you used to dance? (Do you, still?
) I love that picture of you in twelfth grade. So confident! 
Happy Friday!
Wei-Wei
Awww I love love love the pictures of you in your dance outfits!!! So adorable! I did jazz, hip hop and lyrical for a little while
I also love the cute presentation of your almonds!
I love that there are American girls talking about Irish dancing! I also did Irish step dancing in childhood, but I am Irish
I also did set dancing when I was younger, which is a more traditional type of Irish dancing and is common in the west of Ireland, where I’m from.
Now, I only Irish dance at weddings and do swing dancing for fun!
I was a cheerleader (to quote Bring It On: “cheerleaders are dancers gone retarded”) so that counts right?!
Katherine
Those pictures are GREAT! I have the worst dance abilities ever. I usually have to have a couple strong drinks in me to want to go dancing
I was a cheerleader, though, and I played on the YMCA basketball team. We went undefeated for a year and then the next two we totally BOMBED!
Those pictures made me smile so big! I took 3 years of ballet, two of jazz, and one of gymnastics. I go to a lot of shows and music festivals now and get my dancin out
but I yearned for ballet so I do it by myself with dvd’s for some quality alone time! But even better is that I’m a seamstress at cicci’s dance supplies inc. and I get to sew (moreupdated) lovely outfits like the ones you wore! Its a thrilling job for me 
You must return to dance! I find myself loving dance-inspired workouts, too, especially the Bar Method! Anything done in ballet shoes and counts as exercise is fine by me!
haha you’re adorable. Gotta love the cheesy dancer pics!
I did ballet, tap and jazz like the best of them! Tap was by far my favorite!
Awww so cute! You were an adorable kid! (You’re still pretty adorable now though, no worries) Have a good swim! (:
Fun pics from the past!
I was a competitive clogger for 12+ years, then taught some as an adult.
Cute outfits!
I danced from age 2 to 21 and now I teach
I took tap, jazz, ballet, lyrical, modern, musical theatre, pointe and contemporary…
I specialized in tap and went on to being on the canadian national tap team
I MISS that part of dance!!
I’m with you on all the dance, I even danced on pointe for a year or two, I don’t remember exactly how long. I really loved it, I had personal reasons for stopping but I wish it had never come to that. Hip hop was a late discovery, I wish I had done it all along!
Ahhh, those pictures make me so happy!!! I did tap, jazz, modern from 8-18 and I also did ballet and pointe for a couple of years. I’ve been missing it so much lately and want to find a tap or modern class so bad!!
Dancing is great, such a good workout too! I should try body jam sometimes.. Anyone doing that?
Did modern dancing as a child for about 7 years, and a bit of ballet. I discovered belly dance about 2.5 years ago and have not looked back since!
those pix are so cute!! also, i need your lunch inspiration lately
Ahahahaha, you look so cute in your 5th grade picture
You’re lucky girl to have sandwiches like that made for you!
Cute pictures. I started ballet at age 4 at a non-competitive studio. I danced for the next 10 years, and was on pointe for the last 2. I had a year off ballet one year to take acrobats (like tumbling) but went back to ballet the next year. (We were only allowed to do one class, NOT tap, because any additional classes and tap shoes were too expensive. =D) I gave it up to play sports in high school but have taken salsa lessons here and there, including while I was living in Spain.
I’m also half Polish and spent many a family wedding polka-ing at the reception… imagine my horror when I found out my husband canNOT polka!!!
How awesome! Love the dance pics…I was a ballerina too! (also karate, for which I won several state titles and a national title) Now I dance hip hop, and sing at renaissance faires
side note, if you are ever in Santa Barbara (California) I will totally treat you to an hour and a half hip hop class where I attend…best workout EVER!!