Fall Piano Recital

This afternoon we had another piano recital, where Madison and her friends had an opportunity to play a piece they each chose, and also sing a song as well.  Madison played "Clap Your Hands" and sang "Love Somebody," and joined the rest of the kids in a few other songs, either singing or playing the triangle for "The Royal March of the Lions."

She is beautiful, but actually all the children looked very sharp.  Everyone was dressed up, and did very well with the production.  We're thankful for Mrs. Pam, and all the work she puts into helping our children get better and better.  Madison does have a little bit of stage fright though - she was playing this smoothly and perfectly, ten times a day in fact.

This morning, Mommy and Daddy went to the doctor's office and got the confirmation:  strep throat.  Again!  That's three times this year for Daddy and twice for Mommy.  She's actually only had it three times her entire life, and twice this year alone.  Madison is healthy, fortunately.  But the last few days for Mommy and Daddy have featured sore throats and high fevers.  And fortunately, we're able to go get it all taken care of at the doctor's.  The other bummer is the new car:  we have to have new brakes on it.  If that sounds like deja vu, you're right:  we just had new brakes put in the other car only two weeks ago.  Also, the oven just stopped working.  We're having someone come to look at that Friday, and hopefully we'll have Thanksgiving all figured out - after we pay some more there.  Also, we just paid our property taxes, so there's some more income out the door.  It's one of those times, but rather than complain, we're focused on how remarkable it is that we sold the house last month and are more able to afford all of these.  You can choose to complain about the events happening, or you can choose to be thankful in the remarkable timing that things sold last month, just in time for us to be able to handle all of this.  So, we will make ourselves happy and content.  Despite all the bad news left and right, we're not that stressed.  It just might be because we're heavily medicated - but we do have a sense of peace about things.  It really does help to focus on the blessings in our lives, which are too numerous to count.

Tonight we sat down to our half-decorated tree (we've been too exhausted to finish it lately!), and we watched a few more Christmas specials.  It was nice to snuggle on the couch together, the three of us.  The weather is starting to turn very chilly outside, so it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!