Thanksgiving 2014

This is the second Thanksgiving in a row that I have spent away from home, not with anyone of my family beyond Michelle and the kids. We're in Minneapolis for Oireachtas, which is inexplicably scheduled for Thanksgiving weekend every year. Katie is dancing on a team, and Jami is signed up for only one dance. I wonder if this will be our last regional event. Jami is showing little motivation to dance byond class time, and if you're going to advance you have to "do your homework", as it were. To do it well, it's an expensive sport and you have to treat it like one. The both enjoy the dance, but seem to approach it like a hobby, and I can't drop a thousand bucks every year - and a minimum of $400 for an average feis, four times a year - for a hobby.

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