I am going to have to tell about our month of December in chapters – for my sake as well as yours! We had some cold days the first part of the month. One morning, during one of our dog walks, I snapped a few photos of the frost on the ground.
The December single adult activity was to ring and sing for the Salvation Army on Saturday, December 10th in front of Hobby Lobby. Sheldon Slade is the High Counselor over single adults so he and his family came. Melanie came. That was it. BUT, all the Slades can sing so we sounded REALLY good – four part harmony AND in tune. And, they know as many, if not more, Christmas carols than Steve and I do. As a result, I believe the Hobby Lobby customers were very generous that morning. Boy, it sure was cold, though! The Slade kids were real troopers.
Speaking of music, that week was FULL of rehearsals and performances. Tuesday night, the 6th , was a Civic
Orchestra rehearsal, Wednesday night it was rehearsing with Memorial Baptist
Church with their choir that Elise sings in.
It was for a Christmas cantata written by Michael W. Smith and Amy Grant
called "Almost There" which we performed on Sunday, the 11th. Civic had another rehearsal Friday night and
a performance Saturday. We did excerpts
from the Messiah and some nicely arranged carols. Also, I played a cello solo of The First Noel
for church that Sunday. Just to add more to the week, our ward
Christmas party was also on Saturday night and Steve had been recruited to be a
wise man so he and Steven came to listen to the Civic Orchestra music on Friday’s
dress rehearsal. Steven also came with
Steve to hear the Memorial Baptist performance on Sunday. My heroes.
Finally, some of the tongue depressor snowmen I painted
for my music students….
And the note Steve put on the back door regarding our poor, senile, 16-year-old-dog-this-month who forgets she has JUST been outside so she wants to go out again.... (apologies to the author of the Pokey Little Puppy)
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