All week, we have still had single and even negative thermometer temperatures. Oh, how grateful I am for a heater that works! It was so cold on Tuesday that schools were cancelled throughout Saint Louis. Because the St. Louis Civic Orchestra rehearses in a public high school, our Tuesday evening rehearsal was cancelled!
Steve celebrated his 71st birthday on Wednesday. Kirsti celebrated her 33rd birthday on the same day! Would that we could have been with her in person but we did have a nice phone visit. Our celebration here was pretty low-key. Our oven is currently not working (repair person to come this Tuesday) and I couldn't bake him a cake. So, we went to Schnucks and bought him some donuts.
Steve and my Christmas gift to ourselves arrived early in the week - a mini fridge. We have put it down in the basement next to the chest freezer and we are keeping Steve's extra insulin, sodas, and rarely-used condiments. You can see that it has a retro design...kind of cute.
The fall/winter semester of beginning strings is wrapping up this coming Tuesday with a combined concert at Mehlville High School. We had a dress rehearsal last Thursday afternoon and it was truly organized chaos! So many string instruments that needed to be tuned!
I also wrapped up my first semester of teaching beginning strings with a local home school group with a recital Saturday evening. We held it at the church where one of the families meets. From left to right in the front row is Rowan, Jaxson and Maria. In the back row is Nora, Ben, me and Eliza. Maria, Nora and Ben are siblings and they are joined by Rowan in my home school group. Jaxson is one of my piano students and Eliza is a cello student. Please note that Rowan really does know how to properly hold her violin - but I kind of like the symmetry she has achieved...
Sally went to the groomer on Wednesday. She looks great and but now has to wear a sweater since all of her insulation was shaved off!
Steve and I watched the second episode of All The Light We Cannot See and we are not going to finish the last two episodes. It continued to veer quite dramatically from the book. On the other hand, we thoroughly enjoyed the second episode of All Creatures Great and Small. We also watched How To Train Your Dragon 2 last night. I also watched Forgotten Love on Netflix during the week. It is a Polish film with English dubbing and it is very well done.
Freezing rain is forecasted for tomorrow morning - maybe a day off from school???
flowers from my home school students....
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