ho! ho! ho!

The weather is weathering..... it was warm (no kidding--it was 60 degrees at 6am this morning!!!!!!!!) and drizzly all day today, and just in the last hour it has been getting colder.... and colder.... and COLDER. (last i checked it was about 40, and dropping fast) It is supposed to pour buckets with thunder, lightening and eventually turning into ice and snow over the next two days. (eeeewwwwwwwww) Why can't it just SNOW? A nice, fluffy Nor'Easter?



The kids were all speculating whether we would lose a day of school this week.... sounds good to me! :)



I did get a couple of days off this week and was able to take a breath and get some Christmas stuff done. The house is looking festive! I feel better having a few things stashed away now, with a better picture of what we are going to gift everyone this year.



Susie and Dan are coming this Friday! I hope the weather stays ok so I can get there ok. Then after that, they will be here for Christmas from the 19th until the 30th. (yay!!!!!!!!)

The girls and I went to the Christmas concert at the high school last night. It was very nice. The girls were impressed that a lot of the kids said hi to me. We were downtown shopping and a few kids said hi to me there, too! I always was impressed when I went places with mom and everyone said "Mrs. Gray!" "Mrs. Gray!"

Speaking of which, when I called Dan and Susie tonight, Dan sung jingle bells to me, sweet as can be. He doesn't always talk to me--it must be hard for a 4 year old to talk on the phone about anything in particular. He really loves music, and to sing, though, so it doesn't take much encouragement to get him to do that, at least.

Before I forget, a funny story:

I was dying laughing last night--at the concert, the band director and choir director had gone all out to be sophisticated and politically correct. The program was tasteful, ambitious. They had various students explain all of the pieces of music to the audience.

Winsted being the blue collar haven that it is, was tolerant, at best. It was obvious that most of the audience was not really paying attention to the explanations--they were all holding out for the CHRISTMAS carol sing-along at the end.

Anyways, one of the pieces played by both the choir and the band was Coventry Carol. The students explained that this carol was written about the infantacide Herod ordered in anticipation of Jesus' birth. The carol is supposed to be the mothers crying for their sons' short, doomed lives. It is pretty, but sad and tragic.

On the way out, I overheard a mother and daughter talking. The daughter asked the mother what her favorite piece of music was. The mother said that she loved the Coventry Carol, in spite of what "that teacher" said. "It's pretty!" she insisted. Then she asked her daughter: "What WAS he talking about, that it was about babies being killed?" The daughter tried to explain, again, the story of Herod and the babies. "Why would he do that?" the mother continued. The daughter told her mother Herod was actually trying to kill Jesus. "What?" the mother was confused. "Where did the teacher get this story?" The girl said, "The bible, I guess." The mother started laughing hysterically--"The bible? (hahahahahahaha) I never heard any such thing being in the bible!!!" Well, then they both started laughing, and the both decided that the teacher was "nice" but a bit off his rocker.

Hee hee!