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Re-imagining Summer

It is the beginning of June, and my summer looks nothing like I thought it would 6 months ago. Although we are in Phase 2 of reopening Louisiana and have several more options than we did in the spring, things are very far from normal. When the world seemed to turn upside down in March, I was in complete shock. As I learned that school was going to be out for weeks, my whole body went cold in disbelief. After the reality sunk in, I decided to power through the spring, giving it everything I had as a teacher and a mom. It is how I cope with the things that I can't control, to focus on what was right...
As, a former all-star, high school, and college cheerleader and current all-star cheer coach, when I heard Netflix was coming out with a docu-series on cheerleading, I CRINGED. This has been done before, and each time the "cheer world" has gotten so much backlash and criticism. In the past, it was always drama-filled series and showed a lot of negatives. But this time, Netflix got it right. I started all-star cheer in the 6th grade at Louisiana Cheer Force, right here in Baton Rouge and cheered with LACF, then cheered at St. Joseph's Academy until I went to college and continued my cheer "career" at Southeastern all while coaching at the gym that taught me everything I know. Netflix's Cheer...
Mommies, mothers, we feel all of the feelings. All of them. We literally feel our children’s bodies move inside of us and hear their heartbeats (thanks to the modern age) before we ever get to meet them.They hear ours, they beat together. This is not to knock fathers or deem them unimportant, my sons will be amazing fathers one day - but we mothers, though, we sacrifice for our little beings before we’ve met them ... no rules to follow ... before we know if they’ll even look anything like us. Sometimes, we love them before they’re a thought, when they're only just a dream. That's a powerful love. This is not to say that those mothers who choose to be mothers...
I have seen a Facebook post circulating, asking “When did you first experience racism?” Due to #BlackoutTuesday I will be sharing my experience. Here is my story. Junior year prom. I had all the plans made and was ready — pictures at my parents' house with my date/high school boyfriend, then pictures before dinner with a large group of friends, dinner with that same group of friends, prom, after party, then stay at a friend's house with a large group. The night went perfectly until my mother received a call that I and my two black friends could not come over because there was no room for us to sleep. At the time, my mom made it seem like she just...
I can't stand when people say their kids "don't see color" ... that is a privilege my children will never have. My oldest daughter has noticed and been voicing her observations since she was 2 ... Mommy is pink, daddy is brown, she is light brown, and her sister is a little darker than her. The list goes on and on. She started noticing these things at preschool when they started learning about differences and similarities. So even though skin color was always an easy conversation to have, racism was not. I was so scared to talk to my daughters about racism. They are almost 5 and 3.5 years old; I wasn't sure how much they were going to...

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