A lot is happening around here as we get ready for the
Christmas season. Practices are vamped up – beside the usual group practice
almost every evening. We also have group practices on Monday and Friday on the
songs just the 6 of us younger ones play. For each of those practices, goals
have been set, metronome markings have been picked for the next practice, and
we spend time working individually beforehand. (Check out our Christmas concert schedule starting December 1st at
To get into the spirit of Christmas, we are
already enjoying batches of English Toffee and Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter
Balls – a couple of the 8 or so recipes we make every Christmas season.
You can hear Christmas CD's playing at different times
throughout the house. (Karen and Abigail have been working on finding and
arranging our new Christmas music since July/August, so for them, the Christmas
music is nothing new. They do try to be nice and save the majority of the
audible Christmas CD playing {a.k.a. without headphones} until at least October.
J ) By the way, our
house is never silent unless we are gone – so much happens all the time. Then
again, I don’t really know if the
house is silent when we’re gone.
Karen is making supper right now and it smells absolutely
wonderful! I’m getting hungry just sitting here and waiting, writing this for
publishing tomorrow morning.
Here are some pictures from a concert we did earlier this
year…
Lots of the old churches we get to play in have neat architecture.
The “perfect” angel? ... complete with a halo
Oh, it’s supper time!
See ya later!
“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his
name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.” – Matthew 1:21
“He shall be great, and shall be called the son of the
Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there
shall be no end.” – Luke 1: 32-33