From the above heading, you can tell what I'm looking at outside right now. We had another three inches of snow overnight and it's been snowing nonstop off and on since early this morning. We've accumulated upwards of 6 to 8 inches since just last Thursday. It's made it a challenge keeping the front walkway clear for the mailman to say the least. I think I'm kind of getting back in synch finally with the Minnesota winters as I correctly guessed the inches of snow just on first glance as I drove the kids to school. On my way home, I turned on KTRF to hear "Big Red in the Morning" (a local on-air personality) announce we had three inches of snow, exactly what I had guessed.
This past week's activities went off without barely a hitch. Saturday's string quartet performance at Redeemer became a "trio" as one violin didn't show up. We had two cellos, a violin, and the director played piano to fill out the sound. We went to Trinity after that with Dusty Grochow to attend the rehearsal for Aaron's Christmas program. Aaron had a speaking part like most of the other kids and did a great job.
Come last Sunday, the choir sang at both services the three pieces we had been given only two weeks prior. Only problem was I had only practiced them once, the first week they had been given us, and had not been able to practice last Wednesday as I had to practice for the Santa Lucia performance at Redeemer. Long story short, I messed up at the first service on one of the pieces where we were supposed to stay on one note in order to change into a new key and I went down to the note we had been singing previously, so the other two basses kind of followed me off the cliff like lemmings and you can imagine how it sounded at the very end. With that experience under our belt, though, and a SECOND practice before 10:30 service, we did great the second time around. Aaron's Christmas program went well also and I'm hoping the local radio station managed to tape the televised service for me.
In other news, Aaron has assumed the role of bedtime story reader for Daniel and I. He picks out his own book about a half hour before bed now and reads for at least 15 minutes. It's required that he read 15 minutes per night on a reading log for his class at school, but he has begun to regard it as something fun to do, not so much a "homework" chore. We did have a humerous reading the other night that had me in stitches. This was another in a long series of chapters in "kids say the darndest things..." As we're reading along, Aaron came across the word "salami" sandwich and was unable to sound it out. I thought I'd give him a hint by asking him, "What's your favorite sandwich meat at Subway?" Good ol' Danny managed to chime right in at that moment with, "chicken bacon ranch?" I thought Aaron's interpretation of the bible verse recently as "Possum" instead of "Psalm" was pretty funny, but I think Danny had him beat with his improvisational skills. Andrew was howling too when he heard it. :o)
Now I'm thinking of what to do outside with the lights. I now have the company of two other houses on my side of the street that have Christmas lights outside. My dilemma now is the snow has covered up the nice blue net lights I had on the front bushes, so I'm wondering how to clear them off or if I'll just have to bring them inside to melt first, then bring them back out. The biggest challenge I'm facing, though, is getting out to get the shopping done in time for Christmas so there's a minimum of time available for the boys to go snooping for their gifts. Aaron's already put me on notice he will be looking "everywhere." Wish me luck...
I'll try to post a few more pictures soon of the Christmas program at church, etc. I also want to get a nice snow fort built out front with all this nice wet moldable snow.
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