One day to the Christmas Concert and.....

the skirts and blouses showed up a day early....so that takes some of the pressure off. The decorating fanatic alumni Anna Forbes showed up today and started a frenzied campaign to spruce up the stage. (I thought the holly branches with white lights and red bows would serve, but it turns out that we needed golden snowflakes, a fireplace with stockings for each choir, entrance doors wrapped like presents, a couple live Christmas Trees, and possibly a dove release if she can talk me into it.) The young woman definatly goes overboard, but I have to admit that it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

The sickness is still there. There were still plenty of absences today, and a very sad Melissa Larsen asked to pull her solo from the concert because there is just no voice there at all. It was looking as if we were going to lose our "Santa Baby" act too, but Rachel Drennen seemed to be improving by the end of the day. The last few days have been brutally cold (single digits), and it's really knocked the stuffing out of a lot of students. They got the standard "home remedies for sickly voices" speech. Let's hope it works.

On the home front, Steph managed to get a "girl's night out" in with a cookie exchange that resulted in a good take. If we can buy up a few plates at the concert tomorrow night, we could potentially be covered for the holidays. Cookies. Yum.

The kids and I watched "Indian in the Cupboard" while Steph was out. I hadn't seen it before and found myself getting choked up at the end. What a softie I am. I should take up a martial art or something. It was nice to be able to spend the night before the concert watching a movie with the kids. I got home at 4:45 and spent about an hour running through the accompaniments for the concert, but everything else is pretty much finished. There's back burner stuff, but I feel justified in not doing it. Those last Districts songs can wait a few more days.