Last Sunday evening, we celebrated Steve and Quinn's birthdays. Quinn turned 11 on the 18th and Steve turned 71 on the 17th. We enjoyed a delicious Mexican feast with Beckie and the Southerlands - chicken cheese enchiladas made by Beckie, Spanish rice and refried beans, gluten-free empanadas and fresh pineapple topped off by a gluten-free cake provided by Emily.
Sally is ALWAYS happy to be with Beckie!
Monday we DID get freezing rain so schools were cancelled. Huzzah! I enjoyed being at home all day. The ice was gone by noon, however - another Huzzah!
Tuesday evening was the all district beginning strings concert. There must have been sixty string students on that stage! Thirty of them were mine. With winter dryness and cold, the pegs slip so keeping the violins in tune was kind of crazy. From start to finish, the concert only lasted thirty minutes.
Speaking of concerts, Steve and I attended the St. Louis Symphony Saturday night, after a delicious dinner at Little Fox - all to celebrate our 49th wedding anniversary coming up on the 31st. The concert featured Peter and the Wolf and two other pieces written for the ballet by French composers: The Spider's Feast by Albert Roussel and The Model Animals by Fancis Poulenc. Both pieces were beautiful! Peter and the Wolf was accompanied by a stop action film of the same title that was certainly not the Disney version - it was pretty dark but still an impressive work - created with the assistance of over 200 people over a period of five years!
I am now in an interim period between the fall and spring sessions of beginning strings and I have loved my extra time day. I had hoped I would be further along in my Christmas cards but I still have next week....
We got a flat tire Thursday night on the way to English classes at the church (Welcome Center / Kindness Begins With Me mission that we are now serving). I hit a pothole just before getting to the church so I was able to slowly drive to the parking lot. We called USAA roadside assistance and they sent a tow truck. We also qualified for a $30 credit towards a Lyft ride so I ventured into that world and downloaded the app and arranged for a Lyft ride. Wouldn't you know, though, that both the tow truck and the Lyft ride came at the same time which was also when all the Afghanistan refugees were leaving the building after classes so the parking lot was a chaotic mess of people and cars to take them home. I didn't even notice the Lyft car until I saw a text saying it had arrived because there were so many cars. I spoke with the driver to tell him I needed to flag down the tow truck and I left to do that. But, as Steve and I were talking to the tow truck driver, Steve saw some people get into our Lyft ride and drive away! Thank goodness for my ministering sister, Marla Buttars and her husband who came to get us and take us home. The next day, we learned that we needed a completely new tire as the pothole created a gash on the sidewall! We had just replaced our front tires so I guess that is why we only had to buy one rather than two again. Ugh!
Steve and I finished the third How To Train Your Dragon and we also watched the 2008 Get Smart movie with Steve Carrell and Ann Hathaway. As fans of the original television series, we both loved the movie.
We have had rain and clouds all week but milder temperatures. I hope we can get out and do a bit of yard clean up this coming week - stuff we never got around to doing in November. I also hope to send all my belated Christmas cards. Stay tuned.....
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