Friday again?

Hola!

Well my week has snuck by me again!  This tells me spring is here: concerts, sports practices, end-of-year activities and culminating performances.

Yesterday afternoon went from pick-up from chorus practice after school, to pick-up for Ultimate Frisbee practice, to David & Kara's piano recital at a local church building, to Kara's Concert Band performance at the middle school.  It rained most of the day, so we were dodging raindrops and downpours, alternately!

It's amazing how much water can pool in your driveway overnight...(it has been over two years since "Our House Flood," and I still hyperventillate every time it rains for a few hours straight...)

So.  My summaries of our current activities...

SELECT CHORUS.  Kara has been loving her chorus experience, since the music and drama department at the Middle School is phenomenal.  I can't give them enough praise, and I will keep doing it for 2 more years that we still participate in it!  Immensely talented and charismatic people, who love the kids and the work they do.

ULTIMATE FRISBEE.  David & Teresa practice with the frisbee team every day after school: it's great exercise and keeps them connected.  It's a "Club Sport" (definition: not an official "Team" of the school, with a game schedule--oh yeah, the "Club" classification also makes it free, whereas team sports at the high school cost $225 or so per season...).  They have very few games with other schools, but sometimes they do go to another school to compete and/or scrimmage.

PIANO RECITAL.  Kara & David have taken piano lessons from Robin for a couple of years now, and last early evening they performed with all of her students at a church just about a mile from us.  David has great memorization skills so he memorizes his pieces.  Kara played "Candle on the Water" as one of her songs, from Pete's Dragon.  I love listening to both of them play.

KARA's BAND CONCERT.  Kara has played the saxophone for the past 2 years in school.  And actually, she is playing MY saxophone, from when I played in Middle School!  Isn't that funny.  We had it tuned up and pads replaced, etc., and she's using it.  It's a pretty big Concert Band of 6th graders, and the director is finishing her career this year after 32 years at the Middle School!  She's pretty amazing, and it's been a good experience for Kara.

AP TESTS.  'Tis the season, too, for those dreaded tests for the Juniors.  I think I mentioned that David took the SAT a month or so ago, and this week he took the AP Computer Science test on Tuesday.  Today, actually as I type this, he is taking the AP test for US History.  Ugh!

My time is about up!  The day calls.  Frank has been in California all week, and he comes back tonight.  Sometimes he misses things...at least David & Teresa did a piano recital Dress Rehearsal for him before he left.

Have a great weekend.  Kari :)