Are You Sentimental?

[luvflorida]

So who else is this way? I know there are others--I've seen it discussed (luvflorida comes to mind, right?).

Wow, I can't believe you posted this thread! I am sitting here right now with a lump in my throat and red eyes from having a good cry in the shower!

This weekend is my daughter's dance recital. She will be performing tonight, Saturday afternoon and Saturday night, seven dances per recital. I'm a total mess. She's also on the dance competition team and the comp girls are the ones who open the show with a big opening number. Now, I know I would cry anyway, but this may be the last year that a lot of these girls will be dancing together because, for various reasons, many of the girls are deciding to move on to other things. Dance is my daughter's life and she's taking it hard that her best friends may not be dancing next year. However, the girls are doing well holding it all together, (so far anyway), but I'm a wreck.

Honestly, I'm sitting here with tear-filled eyes as I type. I can pretty much get through the hip hop and jazz numbers, but my daughter is dancing in a few lyrical and Pointe numbers that are very touching. There is one number in particular that just tears my heart out. Her lyrical comp team dances to a song called, "100 Years". It is a beautiful song about growing up and it starts with being fifteen for a moment, then goes through the years. Well of course my daughter is fifteen and I know that it truly is 'just for a moment'. OMG, I am bawling my eyes out and tears are rolling down my cheeks! I need to go find some kleenex.

Last night, we went out to eat and had just sat down and been given our menus when "100 Years" starts playing throughout the restaurant. Yep, I started crying. My husband, son, and daughter look at me and I know they're all thinking the same thing- that I'm never going to make it through the weekend! I think the waitress tried to avoid me for the rest of the meal!

Yes, I've always been this way, but I have to admit that the older I get, the worse it gets. I find it harder to control the waterworks. Sometimes I can emotionally remove myself from a situation by thinking other thoughts, reciting the alphabet, or pretending that I'm just watching a bunch of strangers and not people I really know, but it works less and less.

My youngest daughter is a lot like me. She refuses to walk past the lobsters in the tank at the supermarket because she just feels so bad for them. She can cry just looking at someone who she thinks looks different or sad or homeless or any number of other things. She saw an elderly man walking down the street once and she teared up because she thought he was "so sad but sweet looking".

Oh yeah, my kids still make fun of me because I cry everytime watching Nemo, when he goes to school for the first time and his dad is so worried about him. I can so empathize with Nemo's dad!

I also think it's hardest to let go of that last child. Our youngest is 15 and will graduate from high school in two years. I've already cried a bucket of tears over that!

I'm probably going to need therapy by the end of the last recital tomorrow night!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

luvflorida, if it's any consolation, I had to walk away half way through your post and go check my laundry... Yep, we're both hopeless. I also try to distract myself to make myself not cry. When I go into a place where I might cry I scope it out figuring out what in the room I might concentrate on (could be some design on wall panals that I could count, etc--anything). about the song in the restaurant--I feel for you!!!

 

[luvflorida]

luvflorida, if it's any consolation, I had to walk away half way through your post and go check my laundry... Yep, we're both hopeless.

I think I'll get through tonight okay, (except for the "100 Years" number), because I know there will be two more performances. I even made sure to get tickets for friends and relatives for tonight because I think it'll be the easiest performance for me to get through. The last performance will be just me, my husband and son, so at least they already know what to expect.

The recitals are professionally filmed and put on DVD, so I also keep telling myself to hold it together because I can wait and watch the DVD at home by myself and cry my eyes out!!

It's awful to be this way because you just want to enjoy these things and not fall apart. I find myself looking around at other people and marveling at how well they keep themselves composed. I don't know how they do it.

I think I'll be spending time focusing on the fibers on the back of the seat in front of me, or trying to detach myself from the show.

 

[diznygirl]

Crier here! I'm pretty well-known in my family for this. My brothers will warn me which movies not to go see! DH watched Narnia last night while I cleaned - I came in once or twice, and then quick jumped up to clean some more!!

My DS just finished Kindergarten. I thought I'd cry at some point, and I did - right after I dropped him off for the last time.

And then there was the night I came out of his bedroom blubbering and DH looks at me and asks whats wrong. I managed to get out, "He wanted to read the Velveteen Rabbit!" DH just went "Ohhhhhh!" and gave me a big hug!

I'm going to go hug my kids now - and then go clean something!

 

[NCDisneyMom]

I just got home from my son's last day of Kindergarten. My eyes welled up multiple times. All of the kids came up and gave me hugs...other Moms were crying...the teachers were crying. We were all just a sobbing mess.

 

[paigevz]

Oh, yes, I'm a big crybaby. It's embarrassing really, I cry at EVERY play, awards ceremony, first day of school, last day of school. I cry at the plays my students are in as well as my own children's. If I ever watch home videos (and I really try not to), I cry. I cry over my photo albums. I cry on the airplane to and from Disney. I cry over sad movies, even if they have nice endings. I cried because the boy on "So you think you can dance" was adopted as a PCP addicted infant. And, once a month, I cry for an entire day for no reason at all.

Oh, yes, I also cry when I'm angry, which really makes me mad.........just when I'm trying to make a point I lose all credibility...........and I cry over DIS threads, too.

 

[Sparx]

I'm not a crier. I'm a sympathy crier. if someone cries in front of me, I'll cry. but I usually don't want to cry, so I'll be crying and laughing at the same time. people must think I'm insane. lol