sick, sick, sick

as bj said this afternoon, i seem to do this every year no matter what i do to try and prevent it! i am lying on the couch feeling simply awful. the only bright side, if there is one, is that i am forced to not do anything but lie here and watch tv and movies. i really would rather be having fun : (

christmas in black and white

my friend holly and i played what is our second annual christmas in black and white. we enjoy doing this for several reasons. the first is we get to play some cool duet pieces on 2 pianos and another reason is we get to work on music that we don't get to play at church b/c it's to long or is more classical. we even had a trio with the 2 grands and the roland, which keith played. it was a very pretty arrangement of the first nowell.

i'll post a picture of holly and i at a later date when i find the camera again!

oh christmas tree

well after 3 days of off and on work i finally finished decorating the tree. i must say it is one of the prettiest we have had, but of course my family will tell you that i say that every year : ) i love putting the ornaments on the tree because there seems to be a memory attached to each one. some of my favorites are the one that was made when nathan was in kindergarten, bj's baby rocking horse from his first christmas and matthew's first baby christmas. there are also michaelangelo, the numerous georgia bulldog ornaments, and the various cat ones, not to mention the ones that are shiny!

i love the ones we have gotten from oma and pepere over the years, they are so beautiful. well, i'm sitting here in front of the fire with the tree lit up and the smell of cookies in the kitchen and feeling very content. i will enjoy this for the moment b/c tomorrow i have practice for the christmas in black and white, a christmas party tomorrow evening, church on sunday with the performance of christmas in b/w sunday afternoon and then wrapping christmas shoeboxes sunday evening!

it is truly the most wonderful time of the year!

snow days are the best!

today i got the phone call that all teachers and students love to get... school is cancelled today due to snow!! i always count these as "gift" days. they are days where you can do anything you want, nothing is planned.

so my day went like this: i got the phone call this morning at 6:15 so i turned over and went back to sleep, that may be the best. i made pancakes for breakfast and then we put the lights on the tree. our tradition has always been that when it snows we make soup beans, so that is exactly what we did for lunch. i then made cookies and hot chocolate for us. i was able to wrap a lot of the christmas gifts and watch a movie. we also enjoyed watching the snow fall, and fall, and fall, and fall! it snowed all day. it was beautiful!

i will go to bed tonight and be thankful to God that he made snow for us to enjoy!