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The One and Only Original Family Band…
Recently, one of my sisters and her family were visiting our home. We had shared a lovely meal and at my husband’s urging retired to the music room to sing. We have many musical instruments purchased over the years and I am not sure how we decided to pass the instruments around to the children [...]
Baby, It’s Cold Outside
This morning, I was unexpectedly surprised when I walked out of the front door. The wind was biting and I was unprepared. I had on a short sleeve shirt and it was still dark. I shivered! Quickly, I walked to the car. And I thought of the line from the famous Christmas song, “Baby, It’s [...]
New Things
I have been trying to learn some new things recently and also to perfect some old skills. It has been an amazing journey and I feel a transformation in the works. For Good, I hope. My sister and her family came to visit recently. She is an amazing Interior Designer (I must include “award winning” [...]
Thanksgiving Traditions
“A turkey sat on a backyard fence And he sang this sad, sad tune. Thanksgiving Day is coming, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble And I know I’ll be eaten soon. Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble. I would like to run away. Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble. I don’t like Thanksgiving Day!” Our [...]
Will You Stay and Share the Joy?
In the musical Lost Horizon, there is a song that ends with the phrase “Will you stay and share the joy?” I have thought about the many things that bring joy in my life. I have been sick with pneumonia for several weeks. My family has taken such good care of me. Yet, I have [...]
Impossible things are happening every day
In the Rogers and Hammerstein musical version of Cinderella, there is a song which says “impossible things are happening every day:” For the world is full of zanies and fools Who don’t believe in sensible rules And won’t believe what sensible people say And because these daft and dewy eyed dopes Keep building up impossible [...]
Sweet, Sweet Music
One of my favorite discoveries is that my girls call each other when they are listening to songs that they love or that their sister loves. Recently, I had the sweet experience to be at home and one daughter was on the phone with the other one in her car. Soon, I could hear both [...]
Piano Lessons and Music, Music, Music
C-D-E-F-G-F-E-D-C, sing it: cdefgfedc, playing scales on the piano. “A Dozen A Day” was the drill book I used. Up and down, up and down, sometimes very low on the piano and sometimes very high. After all, variety is the spice of life. But, play I would, especially right before piano lesson time. I did [...]
Phone Restriction?!?
I came home from the doctor and was resting. I called my husband to tell him I was home. Then, my daughter took the phone away. “You are on telephone restriction” she announced. I mildly protested. “I have calls to make” was my response. She then told me, “You cannot help anyone else until you [...]
Finding Joy in the Journey
During our lives, we go through many changes. As a child, we grow, go to school and learn many of the important lessons of life, such as gratitude, accepting our differences and how to love one another. As an adult, we also go through growth, schooling (although not always in a formal setting) and learning [...]
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