Music class started last week at the assisted living centers, so I have been super busy getting everything ready for the preschoolers and their families. The first two classes were terrific, last Thursday and Friday. All of the activities were based on fairy tales and nursery rhymes. The kids are so fun, and it was great to see familiar Grandma and Grandpa faces too. I was a little nervous how things would go with Squirmy, but I wore him on my back in the Ergo, and he had the time of his life. The Grandmas loved him.
I don’t pay any attention to football. In fact, I really hate football, but after living in Wisconsin, and witnessing the passionate frenzy of Packers fans, I can’t help but be a little, tiny bit partial to Green Bay. Wisconsinites are just wild about their Packers, and I know that playing in the super bowl, and then winning it was just such a big deal all over in Wisconsin, and it makes me happy that so many people are so happy. You’ve just not seen anything like Wisconsin Packer fans. They’re crazy.
You may or may have not noticed that The Banana now has bangs. She had a little too much fun with a pair of scissors a few weeks ago. I don’t like the bangs, but they are actually a little nice in the winter because her hair is out of her face.
The Arrowhead Chorale is gearing up for a big concert in two weeks of Italian Renaissance choral music for double choirs. The music is fun and interesting, although it takes some careful counting (not my strength) to sing it. There is also a brass ensemble, organ, and cello involved in the concert. Fun! Plus, the second altos (which is the part I sing) get to sing some super duper low notes. I love low notes.
Some of you have found my one-frame-a-day blog, Daily Snippets, up in the menu near the header of this blog. At the beginning of January I commenced on a photo-a-day project, which involves trying to take at least one image each day to document our family. I’m storing the images on that special blog because it is more motivating to get my camera in my hand if I have a little pressure to post the images. At the end of the year I plan on making a special book with a large image on each page for the entire year. I am having a bit of trouble remembering to take pictures on days that I am teaching, Tuesdays and Thursdays, but overall, it’s going well. I don’t always get the images posted each day, but the pictures are at least getting taken.
I have been having so much fun with my piano students! It is so neat to see them progress and get better. There are students that I felt unsure if they were ever going to be able to play with their fingers shaped the right way, and they are! There is a student who began piano lessons as part of some occupational therapy for fine motor movements, and he’s playing with hands together, and getting better every day! I was unsure if some students would ever internalize the strategies for reading notes on the staff, and they are getting it! I have a brilliant student who came to me really not wanting to continue piano lessons, and now she loves it even better than cello lessons. Yay! I just love, love, love my job. Really.
I recently took some pictures of a friend who has some serious health issues and her family, and I think they might be the most real, beautiful pictures I’ve taken ever. It was such a blessing for me to get to capture them. I’m honored that they let me slip in and document some intimate family moments.
Last night I had to take all the big kidlets to my choir rehearsal because of some last minute plan changes on Dr. Peds’ part. I was so stressed out and nervous about having all three of them there for the very long rehearsal, but they were SO very good. They behaved so well. I was so proud and relieved. Then I loaded them in the car and they squabbled intensely all the way home, all during the time they were drinking the special smoothie treat I made for them, and until they were tucked in their beds, sound asleep. It was as if they couldn’t hold any of the squabbling in anymore, and it all came bursting out at once in a frenzy. I went to bed as soon as they were asleep.
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