Month: March 2016

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

| Stacy

It was nothing short of God’s great love for us that Stewart, Nigel, and Marie got to be part of this fantastic production.

Friday night John, Tabitha, and Johanna went to the show.
Saturday afternoon, after Tabitha, Johanna and Katriel had their last swim lesson, Tabitha and I went to see the production.  I then ran Tabitha over to the church where John was taking a class and I went back to get the performers for a pizza lunch at Cam’s.  It was excellent!  And yes, the kids DID wear their make-up to the restaurant!

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Then on Sunday John, Tabitha, Johanna, and I went to see it again.  I was so sad that it was our final opportunity to see this amazing show.

Part of the beautiful supporting cast.  These girls logged in countless hours riding in the car back and forth to Finney.

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Hanny wanted to meet the characters!

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I was a planner/helper for the cast party.  It was such a great time.

The whole entire thing was a blessing from start to finish.  To God be the glory!

New guitar

| Stacy

I’m trying to get caught up on my blog.  I’m getting there piece by piece.  I need to stop and share this story, though.

Six to twelve months ago Nigel asked about switching over to guitar from piano.  We were okay with the idea and our piano teacher does both.  But there was that part about not having a guitar.  We HAD had two guitars at one point, but in our attempts to declutter over the years we had already gotten rid of them by the time Nigel expressed his interest. 

John had done some occasional searching on Craigslist and Amazon, but we never had peace to just jump on anything.

The idea moved more to the front-burner in the last few weeks and I decided to pray about it.  There were far more pressing things going on, however, and it was never a major focus. 

Then one Sunday at church, after Nigel was finished ushering for the day, Mr. Soanes (the head usher) asked Nigel out to his car.  It seems Mr. Soanes had asked Nigel in the past if he was interested in singing in the choir as Stewart does.  Nigel explained he’d like to play guitar.  Well, Mr. Soanes had a guitar at his house that no one was using.  And as I headed to the doors to exit the church that particular Sunday, my mouth dropped open as I saw Nigel walking back into the church with Mr. Soanes, with a guitar bag in his hand.

Really. 

And here is Nigel with his first guitar lesson with Nate.

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Do you remember the story about the drums?

Self-medication

| Stacy

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Things are pretty busy in our neck of the woods, with opening night on the horizon.  After a few days of heavy running around, I took a few minutes to inject major comfort-calories into my system.  It worked deliciously.

Johanna’s Story Book

| Stacy

See – that gal on the left is Snow White.  She has leprosy.  And that gal on the right?  That is Aurora.  She is taking care of her.

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‘Cause that’s how we roll.

What is going on with this blogging thing?????

| Stacy

STACY – you are SO FAR BEHIND on your blog!!!

Yes.  I am.

See – life was too easy in the fall, or something like that.  We knocked out so much school work that we were ahead of the game.  It seemed like it would be a good idea to add a few things into our schedule to motivate us to get out of the house over the impending winter and to increase our fellowship time with friends.

So I added homeschool skating for 8 weeks.
And I committed to co op for 10 weeks.
And then we got involved in the Finney production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
And then I pinched a nerve in my neck.
And of course we added our annual winter swim lessons.

And when you add all that to normal doctor and dentist and orthodontist appointments, as well as our regularly scheduled Spanish classes, CBS, Pioneer Girls and choir – you end up with CHAOS.

When I wrote it all out on the calendar and prayed over it, I blessedly did not have a panic attack.  I just asked God to deliver us through each day and provide what we needed for those moments.  And He has.

But I never asked Him to provide time for blogging… and here I am playing catch up.

Why, yes, I can…

| Stacy

As production continued to move forward for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat the cast had a few promotional field trips to local Christian Schools.  Early Friday morning I received an email from the director asking if I could help transport students to Northstar School.  Because I technically could… I made the shifts necessary to have it happen.  And BOY was I blessed for it.  We had to leave co-op early.  I had to grab lunches at Wendy’s.  I had to drop off Tabitha, Johanna and Katriel to hang out with Nan.  (THANKS, NAN!)  And I had to be at Finney by 12:15 PM.

We headed to the school and I got a sneak preview of some of the songs from the show!

YouTube hates me, so I can’t upload the video here…

But we stopped at McDonald’s on the way home for a quick treat.

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If the shoe fits…

| Stacy

Katriel could only find one shoe this morning.  Thankfully, for the Cinderella game, it works out just fine. 

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The whole family got off on a crazy schedule later this after noon.  Our Wednesdays have included, CBS from 9-11:30, skating from 1:00 – 2:00, Finney rehearsal from 3:15 – 6, and church activities from 6:30 – 8:00.  PHEW.  In a mad rearrange of our evening, John ended up taking some kids to church for 6:00 as I was arriving with others.  It was very impromptu.  In fact, Cinderella didn’t change out of her ball gown to get there. 

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