Tomorrow is our church’s Christmas Cantata and I am directing it, so I am nervous about that.
For Noelle’s birthday down in NC, I bought some craft foam projects which all of the kids enjoy doing and they had a really great time with an art time. In fact, they liked it so much that we had to stop the kids from doing 3 or 4 each so we could open presents and have the chocolate cheesecake mousse. Noelle got a few books and some money to put towards her dollhouse fund. (She and AnnaBeth decided together that they would save up their money for a wooden dollhouse they found one day. They are close to having the amount they need.)
We got home on Wednesday and I got a few hours of rest before heading to church for full cantata practice. That was a long two hours and I felt like we really didn’t accomplish all we needed to, but we’ll see. Pray for me as I’m thinking I have some decisions to make regarding the adult choir.
I wanted to get some things done outside the home (shopping and stuff) this week after we got home, but that didn’t happen because we had the ice storm on Thursday night and Friday morning and then more snow today. I ventured out to the post office today, but it was still really slick out there even on the main roads, so afterwards, I came home and stayed there. I’m thinking the main roads should be better by tomorrow morning. Up here, they usually have them cleared fairly quickly, but this was a doozy of a storm, so it must have caused some problems. The kids had some fun playing around on the icy snow in the yard. They weren’t out long, but they said they had been ice skating out there. I watched Christine jumping and trying to break it. It didn’t look like she was getting through much.
While down in NC, one of the women at the Bazaar at my mom’s church was making these itty bitty bears. I asked her about them, but didn’t think I could make them. She enjoyed talking to me and gave me the pattern for the bear (and enlarged it 200% so it’s easier to do) as well as one of the patterns she uses for their 4-H club down there. I worked on the bigger bear pattern today. It’s was tough, but I did it. The lady thought Amie might enjoy making the horseshoe pillow since it’s easy and I can also use it as a nice rice pack that goes around the neck easily. At the moment though, I’m using the pattern with Christine. She’s enjoying learning how to do it.
Oh, one more thing… I put some pictures up on Flickr, so go take a look if you wish. If you are on Facebook, I put most of them on there as well, though I always put a slight bit more on Flickr.
Oh wow!! I guess I’m directing that cantata TODAY! It’s just past midnight… nervousness always makes it hard for me to sleep.