'Tis the Season Choir Concert

Every December the Edgewood High School takes two days in December and puts on a choir concert called 'Tis the Season, or just 'Tis to the locals.  This year was our first year to be involved with it, so let me tell you about it.

Our small town of Ellettsville is big into the Marching Band and Show Choir. The whole town really supports the kids and the schools in those endeavors and it is amazing to see and they are great programs.

This year, as a seventh grader, which is the first year that you can be in the junior high school choir program. My daughter made the top group called, Mini-Warehouse, which consists of 20 boys and 20 girls in the seventh and eight grades.  They dance and sing, and put on a wonderful show.  At the junior high you also have the all girls show choir, Center Stage.

Once you get to the High School, you have three options to make show choir.  There are two mixed sex groups, one called New Editions and the other, more elite group called Music Warehouse.  There is the all girls group called Sophisticated Ladies.  In the time that they programs have been around, they have won many awards and done wonders for the community.

So every December, about mid month, the High School choir department puts on the annual concert. All the show choirs from the High School perform. There are also some just regular concert choirs from the High School that perform. Then they have some uber talented kids that perform some solos and duets.  They also invited the Junior High show choirs to perform.

Now, once you get to the show, and you arrive early, there is a huge gingerbread house that you walk into. This is the cookie walk. Every high school parent of a show choir member has baked and brought in at least five dozen fancy Christmas cookies. The idea of the cookie walk is that anyone can pick up a box, fill it with their choice of cookies, and they pay by the pound. The money from the cookie walk goes right back into the show choir funds.

All of this was amazing, and I loved it all. But the best part was the actual show. I will remind you that we live in a small town, we have a small public school system, and I thank God every day for the system we have because it is nothing like the systems I hear about just down the road. Let me tell you, the music was worth it!!

The songs were beautiful, one duet was called "One Last Christmas" that had me crying all through the song because of things going on in our lives at the moment. The concert then ended with a "Cantata" of which the opening song was an amazing solo of "Mary Did You Know?". Not only was it an amazing song, but the young lady that sang it had an incredible voice and warranted the loudest applause of the afternoon.

In our schools, the day starts with the pledge of allegiance and then a moment of silence. It is still Christmas, not Holidays and we still sing songs of faith in our concerts. I thank God for our community and our schools, and I wouldn't want it to be any other way. I may not have known it would be this way when we bought our house here, but I think God knew this is where we needed to be and where would be the best place for our kids to grow up.

Annual Church Turkey Dinner

Every year our church puts on a huge Turkey Dinner. This is a big fundraiser for the church and everyone in the church gets involved.

The kids in the youth group will be busing tables all night. Some people will be in the kitchen, others serving food and others cleaning up. Along with the food with be handmade items from the ladies of the church for sale and other trinkets.

Since the first year that we have attended St. Paul UMC and been part of the Turkey Dinner, it has felt like the warmest and most comforting place to be. Each year, no matter how bad I feel, I look forward to this day. Tonight I know I will eat good food, cooked by loving hands of the women of the church, and sit among those that care the most about me and share the meal and the fellowship and the time together.

I am blessed that our church has this tradition.  Last year my son was in the Youth Group and bused tables, and although he complained on the way there, I know he had a good time and enjoyed some of the older people of the church that you don't see as often.  This year he will again bus tables, but my daughter will join him. She has a servants heart and I know she will enjoy this and talk with all the older people she can during her time.

In the hustle of our lives these days we forget to take the time to serve others and to remember to honor those who came before, our elders. I am blessed to have a church that takes the time to remember those things and helps me to teach those lessons to my children.

Off to eat turkey and clean the kitchen!

My first real post on the rambling blog of my thoughts and emotions and all that jazz blog!!

One of the authors, and bloggers that I love to follow, +D.S. McKnight was nominated for the Liebster Award by +Tanya Searle. And as Tanya explains it: Of course I’d never heard of it, being the armature blogger that I am; but as far as I can tell it’s a fun, chain letter kind of award where I answer the questions she’s posed to me and in turn pose ten of my own to other bloggers. 
So +D.S. McKnight nominated me to answer some questions for her, and you all out there, and I felt privileged to be asked and obligated to answer.


1.  When it comes to movies - old black and white or color?
Mostly color, but there are a few great old black and whites that I love dearly! 
2.  Your favorite author?
IS this a trick question? How can I answer that? I have so many favorites in so many different genres.....Juliet Blackwell in cozy mysteries, Sherrilyn Kenyon in paranormal/fantasy3.  Coffee or Hot Chocolate? 
Hot Chocolate all the way!!4.  If you could visit any time - past or future - when would you choose?
I have always had a fascination with England in the 1800's 
5.   Summer or winter? 
Neither....Fall!! Football weather, falling leaves, bon fires that is what I live for!6.  Favorite genre. 
I will ready anything once~! I went through a cozy mystery phase, right now going through a paranormal phase, but I like to mix it up and read everything

7.  If you could have dinner with any historical figure, who would you choose?
The one person I would probably most want to talk with over dinner would be Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I would just love to listen to him in person and learn what he was like for real.
 
8.  A genie offers you 3 wishes.  What do you wish for?
Peace, Health and Happiness for my family and friends.  Does that count?
 
9.  Eat in or carry out?
Carry out...I'd rather be at home in my jammies!
 
10.  Favorite fairy tale?
Not a fairy tale, but love to read Dr. Seuss books because of the hidden meanings in them and force my kids to find them and talk about them!

Welcome

Welcome!

So I can't live with only one blog. I have to have blogs for different things in my life, because I can't mix things it doesn't work for me!

So I have my old blogs under an old email address that I no longer use, and I am transferring them over to this new email address, but as I am doing that I am sorting out the blogs and cleaning them up.

I has always bothered me to have a mix of posts on one blog, especially my book blog, I hate having general interest posts on there because it is my book blog, it is about books! So I am doing that now.

BLOGS:
TAMMommy Blogs on Books - it's book reviews and author info
TAMMommy Blogs to Blog - my rambling on about whatever


So far those are the only ones that I have move over, but I will be moving the business blog over and more and will add them as I add them.

Thank you!