Year 1 semester 1 day 1

Before the surgeries I was teaching Ballet, only 6 hours a week, to military children on base in Okinawa. My two boy 6 and 4 years old spent most my class time with me or staying with a close friend. I always wanted to add more hours, get more time in the class room. Then I got sick, and I missed my classes so much, I missed my students and I missed the work outs. My boys missed it too, they missed doing ballet with us. 
Since the surgeries I feel I have lost all my strength, having your abdomen cut open twice kills core strength, releves, turns, jumps all of them suffer so much. Unpacking from the move I came across the book 101 lessons in classical ballet by: Vera S. Kostrovitskaya. Gifted to me as a teenager when I spent 20 hours a week dancing. I never much looked at the first half of the book, what need did I have for year one lessons? Basics, nothing that, at the time, would give me a work out. 
Now I feel I'm at the beginning again. So that's just what I am doing. Starting with year 1 lesson 1. How hard could it be right?
Reading through the lesson, Demi plies, tondus, ronds de jambe a terre. I know all these moves in my sleep the only hard this about this lesson is finding music to work to, classical is not my cup of tea.
After a mile and a half jog on the treadmill to warm up. Super-star (my 4 year old) curls up in his bean bag to watch TV and I open to my first lesson. Plies as long as I can remember every single class has started with plies, I turn on some Princess music (aka Disney), find a comfortable first position, back straight, shoulders down, head up, correct my core. These lessons are ones that I would teach a 7 year old and I struggled to keep posture today. My legs barely noticed that I did anything at all to them this lesson was a minor warm up, but my core noticed. My over all goal is to finish all 101 lesson, by May 28th, I hope that you will stick with me and my Super hero (7 years) and Super star (4 almost 5 years) as we work through the next 100 days. Not only challenging my body with dance but with being a stay at home mom and the life that comes along with that. I hope to share getting stronger and expanding my technique.