Riot and Frolic

a mostly ballroom dance, but also a bunch of other stuff, blog

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I own and rock people’s faces off teaching ballroom dancing at Dancers Studio in St. Paul, MN. My husband and I compete professionally in American style and wrangle eight children in our spare time. I’ve been teaching and competing in ballroom dancing for over 25 years and have lots of opinions on it. I am an expert by any means, but there are quite a few dancers who are better than me and I have a solid knowledge of basic technique, so suck it.

Don’t Think About It

People often say to me, "I don't know how you do it."  I'm not sure it's a compliment or not or what exactly "it" is, but my reply is always, "I don't think about it."

The life I have is not quite the life I expected.  I never expected to have children, or even really get married, and come on, who plans on becoming a ballroom dancer.  

I've popped into a great and strange daily routine and it's funny and weird (have you ever spent the day with toddlers?  they do and say the weirdest crap) and frustrating (see: prior parentheses, plus dancing with my husband) and challenging and active.  

If I thought of all the challenges that lay ahead, I probably wouldn't do… anything.  So I go about my day, raising my 3 kids, being a professional ballroom dancer, writing mah blog, taking the world by storm and ignoring all the preconceived notions and actual challenges that exist.  

Because DID YOU SEE THIS GUY? 

this is fucking amazing

come on

Screw conventions and do what you want to do.

 

One year ago: Can't Name This Post– a waving baby and a great recipe

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