This Reminds Me

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Sparkly Holiday Headband – $4
Eddie Bauer T-Shirt – $12
First Pair of Tri-Focals – $375
Afternoon Nap with Daddy on a Rainy Saturday – Priceless

..by the chimney with care, knowing that Rachel was straightening her hair.  Between bouts of decorating, of course.

The girls and I got Thanksgiving turkeys put away and Christmas decorations put up today, not a small feet – er feat – with my swollen toes and Keith’s throbbing knee.  Keith has largely hibernated in the bedroom with a remote control and pain pills, bellowing for the occassional slice of pie or water bottle.   We celebrated the last garland swirled with a traditional viewing of “Waiting for Santa,” ala Barney, the magical dinosaur who dominated all of their toddler years.  Goofiness prevailed.  Sometime very soon, our whole family will watch National Lampoon’s “Christmas Vacation,” and that viewing offically starts our season.  What can I say, Audrey, it’s the holidays, we’re all in misery.

Is the “L” she’s fingering for “loser” or for “Lois?”          Several of the candy canes in Hannah’s
Hmmm??                                                                   package were “broken” and required
immediate consumption….imagine that….

…blocking out the scenery, breaking my mind.   Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign?”  Oh yeah, I can read it – it’s in our front yard!  As is the custom in our neighborhood, we are proudly sporting a Reagan Choir sign in honor of a school performance tonight – Rachel’s first for Reagan.
The Treble Choir to which she belongs – one of seven for Reagan – harmonized beautifully on Cantale!, Down Low in the Valley and The Cloths of Heaven.
“Long haired freaky people need not apply?”
Uhh!  To see how freaky, visit her blogs at:
http://www.myspace.com/pinkbubble109
http://www.brunettesarebetter.piczo.com/?cr=1&rfm=y

Our much-loved summer babysitter, Catherine, is choir president this year.  Lois and I clapped wildly for her and her fellow Soundsations.  Good music always boosts my spirits, and singing The Lord Bless You and Keep You to conclude this concert certainly did so.  Thank you Lord for thinking about me, I’m alive, and doing fine.

The sweet strains of the Manx Lullaby and Al Shlosha d’Varim filled the Bush Middle School Cafetorium (yes, it’s a word) tonight as Lois and the 6th grade Bush Middle School choir performed for an absolutely packed SRO crowd.  The 7th and 8th grade choirs did well, too, judging by the applause – but my eyes and ears belonged to the tall 6th grader who performed in the identical spot (top row, far left) that Rachel also occupied for three years.

Lois knew I was going to blog about this.  “Mom, tell them it was my first concert, and tell them I rocked!”

It was her first concert.  And she ROCKED!