Spelling Bee Stress

If you haven't attended and elementary Spelling Bee lately, I highly recommend it! Oh my word, it is soooo stressful! You feel terrible for the kids that get out in the early rounds spelling easy words. It is like listening to someone who sings off-key doing a solo in church, and your stomach aches for them to just get done and not have to continue with the humiliation!!!
Whitney did a great job and she is so confident and poised on stage. She made it down to the last 7 kids and she went out on the word "supremacy". When she missed it, I was sort of puzzled because I figured that she probably knew the word. She spelled it "c-u-p-r-e-m-a-c-y". When she got home from school, I asked her to spell it for me. She spelled it perfectly. She then said "I think that is how I spelled it on stage". When I told her that she spelled it with a "c", she started laughing about it! I love how she doesn't get too stressed out or bummed when she makes a mistake! She is already looking forward to next year's Bee. Me, on the otherhand, not-so-much....might have to take one of those Xanax that my dentist has prescribed for me to take when I have dental work done!