Stopping ballet lessons.

Ever since meimei started learning on RG, it had been crossing my mind to cut her ballet lessons off totally. That's because it's such a hassle ferrying them 3 all over to and fro from school several times a day on some days, and twice a week to her ballet lesson for an hour. 

After all, I had always tried to advocate that they learn 1 non academic extra curricular each. Korkor is learning piano from the Yamaha course since the beginning, didi had been jumping around from piano to drum back to piano (more to kill his time while the other two go for their lessons) and meimei ballet. 

What I hated most are one of those weekday evenings I had to rush from school back to home, rush to cook dinner, serve them on time and rush meimei to her ballet school which get us crawling together with the rush hour traffic workers on their way home. Though it's just an hour class, but 30 mins to and 30 mins back make the whole trip 2 hours altogether. 

And sometimes I need to manage the other two, either they follow us together, or stay at home while waiting for papa to come back. In any case, I really hate going out when the sky is dark. I don't like to be in the traffic madness and I hated wandering around in the streets at night where the safety these days is so frightening bad. 

What are the benefits of ballet anyway? Heck, I didn't know why I had started her on. I just thought she insists to go ballet class instead of learning piano, and I thought, why not. I then began to think it's good stretching exercise for her too so that she would be more flexible. Then there were the fees which we had been dumping in for her so far. It seemed such a waste that she stops here, especially when she was one of the few to score distinction in her ballet annual grading exam. 

But paying for both of these darn expensive sports/hobbies is really taking a big toll on us. It's not cheap at all with the monthly lessons' fees, apparel and attire, exam fees, year in year out. I just feel somehow this ought to be stopped at one point or another anyway.

It took some time for me to finally make up my mind. Now that I have that off my shoulders, I have to say, I am SO RELIEVED And happy. ! I feel so light knowing I don't need to hurry anymore during the weekdays and I get to be in control how to spend the time with them every weekday night. Though now it's just holidays and we only watch TV or eat dinner together only, it still feels great. I ought to have done this so much earlier!