Singing Christmas Tree

I love participating in the Singing Christmas Tree. I love singing in the choir. We had a really good program this year, and it's lots of fun, but I am so glad it is over. The weekend of the Tree is always such a long weekend.

Friday night our performance went pretty well, especially for a first performance. Saturday went better...except for the fact that half the mics didn't work. It just so happened that it was the half that I tried to use during my solo! I first picked up the mic in front of me, as I was supposed to, and it wasn't working. So the person to the right of the person to the right of me handed over the mic close to her. So in the middle of reading lines, we are criss-crossing mics, and I'm ending up just shouting the words out anyway. So two mics down. The person right above us, in the next tier up, handed down her mic....which had dead batteries! So then Pastor Gary, who was singing the male part of the solo, handed me his mic from down below, when he was done singing, so that I could sing my portion...then I handed it back down to him so he could do his other part...and for the part where we sing together....I just sang really loud! When the song was over, Pastor handed the mic back up to me to trade mics with the person above me, who hands her mic back down, and I hand it down to Pastor, and he has someone run and get new batteries. Then when the batteries finally get changed, we do the trade all over again. It was a night of music; not only musical voices, but musical mics as well!!

Sunday, Nick dropped the boys and I off at church; me with all my clothes and toiletries needed to get ready for the program later. After church, he picked the boys up, took us all out to lunch and dropped me back off at the church. I still had a couple hours before I needed to be ready for the program, but I volunteered to help make the cookies that we serve with hot chocolate for the audience after each performance. That way, Nick would also have the car to be able to bring the boys to see the Tree for the evening performance. The afternoon performance had a few minor glitches with the sound. Oh, and the girl next to me just about threw up after the first song, so I vehemently requested she abandon the Tree in a hurry. Other than that, it went well....mics were all working at least. But apparently, some of the lights on the Tree weren't working, again. After the afternoon program, the choir had some cheese and crackers, fruit and veggies for 'dinner' and got ready to do it all over again. I finally got to see my boys, whom I really missed all day. Apparently, Baby Nick had a very difficult day, walking around the house crying, looking for Mommy. That made me feel worse (and better, knowing he missed me too.) I would have to say that Sunday's evening performance was the best of them all. It was so nice to see my boys, way in the back. I couldn't see them real well, but I knew where they were, and occasionally the lights were just right to be able to catch a glimpse of Joey dancing all over the place! He was so cute. By the end, Baby Nick, who had only had a half hour nap, was way past his limit, so Nick took them out to the car to wait for me to be done. It wasn't more than two minutes when Baby Nick was out like a light, and didn't wake up until I got him out of his car seat at home.

Needless to say, it was a very long and tiring weekend. It would be great to be able to sleep all day...but the duties of being wife and mother never stop to give you a break, so I'm still going. Sometimes just barely functioning, but at least I am functioning at some minimal level.

Hopefully this year, they will be able to make a decent video of the performance and I will be able to get a copy to whomever wants it.