The long awaited day arrived today as we gathered at Redeemer Lutheran this evening with the congregations of Redeemer, Trinity, Zion, and believe it or not, the Mosbeck's former church, Black River Lutheran. Paster Hermodson gave the sermon and the other three pastors assisted in the service. I arrived, comforted in the knowledge I would be playing my cello with only one other cellist from the middle school group, thinking I'd at least sound that good, but shortly after arrival, Ruth Stenson, the director, advised me I would be joined by not one, but three cellists, as a high school boy and girl would be playing after all, so we have a nice strong section of four cellists anchoring the string group. We had a great turnout of choir members as well, packing the risers in front of the sanctuary and then some. One of the choir members "Tivo'd" the service at home, so I'm trying to get a copy of it for you, Mom and Dad. The nice part of having a combined service is the building was packed with people much like it was back in the day when it was hard to get an open pew. We enjoyed soup and pie before the service too.
After the service, Ruth passed around a sign-up sheet, and it would appear I will also be performing in a string ensemble for the "Santa Lucia" festival at Redeemer on December 10th, so I'll keep my skills warmed up, hopefully. Joe Drevlow's son played string bass besides his daughter Brianna on cello, so we were thinking sometime getting a quintet or something going at Trinity with all of us. Brianna is an incredible pianist, learning from Ms. Knuttila. For a sixth grader, she plays like she has a lifetime of experience under her belt.
The boys had a good time as I hired a babysitter from the high school choir named Heather. The boys and her took to each other right away and Daniel said, "She was fun!"
In other news, the boys and I went to see Harry Potter on opening night here in town and the film broke in two different sections, so at one point, it was like a Christmas light show as they hadn't turned the lights on and at least every other seat had someone with a lit cell phone. It was twinkling like a thousand points of light in there. It was a disappointing ending, but the boys enjoyed the movie overall and sat through the entire 150 minutes of it in stride.
We're still scheduled to go over to Kristi and Scott Grochow's place tomorrow for Thanksgiving dinner. I am hoping to spend a little time this holiday weekend getting the outdoor Christmas lights arranged. I got a cool extension pole for that purpose that eliminates the need to go climbing 20 feet up on ladders in the snow. I want the Clark W. Griswold "look," without the pratfall injuries if I can help it. We lost much of the snow on the roads this past week, but the temperatures are hovering back below freezing again and more snow is due to fall over the holiday, it looks like.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, especially you two by yourselves in Japan, Jeff & Katrina. Your music video with the Grieg music was very enjoyable!!
Love you all!
Jim, Aaron, and Danny
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