Music Ends the School Year

It's been a little musical around here lately. It's obvious to me how much music is a part of our lives when we spend a week like the last week -- bouncing from one musical event to the next. The truth is I love music, even if I am no musician myself. I am grateful that my kids and husband have these opportunities to increase their talents.

The rest of this post may bore you to tears unless you are family.

It all started:
Last Thursday and Friday Isaac played one of the lead roles in his middle school play. He was the 1950s greaser rocker that also happened to be the mean popular guy. He actually did great and surprised us all with his solo. I thought maybe he had a 2 second solo but he sang for a good couple minutes. And he was good. I only wish that I had more than my recording on my phone which turned out awful. Because he kind of shocked me with how good he was.

We did get a post play photo of him in character.

Last Friday Lia had her final kindergarten festival. Cute little singer. She loves to sing. And was so excited to sing for her Dad and me.

This Friday night Isaac helped wow us again in his end of year Pops concert. Turns out he had a violin duet in one of the orchestra songs. The orchestra did a really great job and I am equally proud of my sister in law who directs the orchestra at Isaac's school. I was, however, mortified by the awful audience. I have never been in an audience where everyone including the adults are so loud, obnoxious and downright rude. There were moments I could barely hear the orchestra who had practiced really hard. I was sitting on the second row. But the orchestra and band did great and Isaac got to use his growing violin skills.
I have a video of one of the songs but youtube is taking forever to download them from my laptop.
will add soon.

Saturday was Becca's turn as she played her piano piece at her recital.
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This is the best she ever played this piece.  Up until right before she played it she was making mistakes and forgetting portions of the song. Fortunately, she has the gift of serious grace under fire. Isaac had been working on learning "Old Time Rock and Roll" but it was not ready in time for the recital

Saturday night Tom's band, now called Spilbeedog, had a gig which I missed due to a nasty migraine. But no worries, Sunday I got to see Tom conduct the choir at church -- his new calling. And that was seriously kind of cool. He seems to be a little overwhelmed by this new calling but the choir sounded great and I am grateful he has a chance to stretch his musical skills in a spiritual direction.

As you can see we get a little musical around here from time to time.

Now for a thought that is seriously off topic. I need to unload my thoughts on this whole Rapture business that people were awaiting yesterday. So on May 21st a preacher had calculated that this was the day Christ would return and that the end of the world would begin. K?!

Now I give serious props to people that exhibit any kind of faith. I think it is incredible that people truly acted on their belief that this was the day the Rapture would begin.

That said, I take serious issue with the fact that one man can run mathematic calculations and then basically announce to the world and God Himself that this is the day this is supposed to happen. I believe that Christ will come on his and God's timetable. They will not be told by man which day they should come. We must have faith that any day and every day is the day we need to be preparing to meet our Savior.