more recapping, whee
Dec. 17th, 2007 12:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamajoanWell, our concert went off fairly well.
Music-wise, it was pretty great. All the singers (chorus and soloists) were great, the orchestra was mostly great, and the audience was appreciative. What little there was of it, that is.
I'd say there were maybe, I dunno, a hundred people there? I suck as estimates of that type. It was a very good turnout considering the weather. It would have been a *terrible* turnout in different weather, but ah well.
Before the second half, the mayor of Cambridge (who also sings in our chorus, and was there at its founding) presented a proclamation and the key to the city to William, our music director, who, as I may have mentioned, is retiring and this was his last Messiah concert with us. It was emotional. I cried a little. I cried more at the very end of the concert. sigh.
The weather was very ugly. Yesterday morning, after I wrote my previous post, I called Brian-who-lives-upstairs and asked him to come down and watch the kids while I went out and shoveled out my car. He said, "well how about if I just shovel your car for you instead?" I of course was like, "hey, knock yourself out." Then Isaac got upset because he wanted to help shovel. (LOL) So I bundled him into all his gear and handed him over to Brian. They went out to the car, and I don't know how actual much help Isaac was, heh, but the car got dug out. I packed up all our stuff and we headed out to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pekmez and zubatac's house.
The conditions were ugly at that point. The snow had changed over to freezing rain; the streets were covered in snow and slush. Plows had been through only erratically, so even sticking to the main roads, I had to go very slowly. Pekmez and Zubatac's street had barely been plowed at all and the only available parking space was half-covered with snow. Thank goodness for four-wheel drive.
Anyway, we left the kids in the capable hands of their babysitter and Pekmez's mom, and set out in my car. We got all the way to the concert hall, parked in the (covered, yay) garage, and got our stuff out, whereupon P. and Z. discovered that they had forgotten one "minor" item: the suit-carrier bag containing their concert attire. D'oh! So they had to call P's mom and get her to take a taxi over with their clothes. Good thing we had such an early call (1:00 to arrive at the theater, concert set to start at 3 but really started at more like 3:30).
On the plus side, things went quite well with the kids. Isaac seems to have really hit it off with Kata. He does love playing with kids younger than him. They all seemed to play really well together, ate, napped a bit, and generally had a good time. Albeit mine were pretty cranky by the time we got home, but it was a long day. They both sacked out liek whoa.
By the time we got out after the concert, the precip had all turned to rain, and much of the snow to slush; there were ENORMOUS puddles of slushy water at many street corners, which made me shiver in dismay at the thought of what those would look like this morning, all frozen over. And without going into the gory details, let me just say, I was right. It was REALLY ugly this morning. I had parked in a slushy parking spot, and had some difficulty getting out simply because of all the crusted-over ice. And it's supposed to remain in the 20s F today, so nothing will be melting. I hear it'll be in the high 30s on Wednesday, but it's supposed to snow more *headdesk* so I guess we won't be "helped" by much melting there. Ugh! Have I mentioned lately how much I hate winter? :P
Just because no post would be really complete without a cute-kid tidbit, I'll mention that Ruthie has gotten the concept of "too" as in "also," so if for example she sees Isaac having milk, she might say "milk too!" ("muck doo") to express that she wants some. She is also getting the idea of "two" as in the number two, and now when she points out features (e.g. eyes, boots, hands) she'll say "two!" afterward. This morning she pointed to my eyes and said "mama eyes" and then "two," and I said "yes, mama has two eyes," and then I said, "Ruthie has three eyes!" and she gave me a very surprised/confused look, and Isaac was like, "Noooooo!" LOL -- I think Ruthie is a little young yet for that particular type of humor, although Isaac finds it very funny.
Ruthie has also started using two-word phrases with "more" e.g. "more milk" "more book" or (somewhat heart-breakingly, last night when I was taking a long time about parking the car after not having seen the kids all day), "more mama!" She still refuses to say an actual word for nursing; she will make the sign or make her little grunting noise, and I always try to get her to say "nursie" but she won't. But now she'll say "more" and then grunt. LOL.
I'm happy to say that my sore throat basically disappeared in time for the concert, yay. And the nausea and TMI from Friday has not recurred. However, today my stomach's still a little uneasy so I'm not sure what is "safe" to eat for lunch. sigh. But I better go figure something out, 'cause I'm getting hungry.
Music-wise, it was pretty great. All the singers (chorus and soloists) were great, the orchestra was mostly great, and the audience was appreciative. What little there was of it, that is.
I'd say there were maybe, I dunno, a hundred people there? I suck as estimates of that type. It was a very good turnout considering the weather. It would have been a *terrible* turnout in different weather, but ah well.
Before the second half, the mayor of Cambridge (who also sings in our chorus, and was there at its founding) presented a proclamation and the key to the city to William, our music director, who, as I may have mentioned, is retiring and this was his last Messiah concert with us. It was emotional. I cried a little. I cried more at the very end of the concert. sigh.
The weather was very ugly. Yesterday morning, after I wrote my previous post, I called Brian-who-lives-upstairs and asked him to come down and watch the kids while I went out and shoveled out my car. He said, "well how about if I just shovel your car for you instead?" I of course was like, "hey, knock yourself out." Then Isaac got upset because he wanted to help shovel. (LOL) So I bundled him into all his gear and handed him over to Brian. They went out to the car, and I don't know how actual much help Isaac was, heh, but the car got dug out. I packed up all our stuff and we headed out to
pekmez and zubatac's house.The conditions were ugly at that point. The snow had changed over to freezing rain; the streets were covered in snow and slush. Plows had been through only erratically, so even sticking to the main roads, I had to go very slowly. Pekmez and Zubatac's street had barely been plowed at all and the only available parking space was half-covered with snow. Thank goodness for four-wheel drive.
Anyway, we left the kids in the capable hands of their babysitter and Pekmez's mom, and set out in my car. We got all the way to the concert hall, parked in the (covered, yay) garage, and got our stuff out, whereupon P. and Z. discovered that they had forgotten one "minor" item: the suit-carrier bag containing their concert attire. D'oh! So they had to call P's mom and get her to take a taxi over with their clothes. Good thing we had such an early call (1:00 to arrive at the theater, concert set to start at 3 but really started at more like 3:30).
On the plus side, things went quite well with the kids. Isaac seems to have really hit it off with Kata. He does love playing with kids younger than him. They all seemed to play really well together, ate, napped a bit, and generally had a good time. Albeit mine were pretty cranky by the time we got home, but it was a long day. They both sacked out liek whoa.
By the time we got out after the concert, the precip had all turned to rain, and much of the snow to slush; there were ENORMOUS puddles of slushy water at many street corners, which made me shiver in dismay at the thought of what those would look like this morning, all frozen over. And without going into the gory details, let me just say, I was right. It was REALLY ugly this morning. I had parked in a slushy parking spot, and had some difficulty getting out simply because of all the crusted-over ice. And it's supposed to remain in the 20s F today, so nothing will be melting. I hear it'll be in the high 30s on Wednesday, but it's supposed to snow more *headdesk* so I guess we won't be "helped" by much melting there. Ugh! Have I mentioned lately how much I hate winter? :P
Just because no post would be really complete without a cute-kid tidbit, I'll mention that Ruthie has gotten the concept of "too" as in "also," so if for example she sees Isaac having milk, she might say "milk too!" ("muck doo") to express that she wants some. She is also getting the idea of "two" as in the number two, and now when she points out features (e.g. eyes, boots, hands) she'll say "two!" afterward. This morning she pointed to my eyes and said "mama eyes" and then "two," and I said "yes, mama has two eyes," and then I said, "Ruthie has three eyes!" and she gave me a very surprised/confused look, and Isaac was like, "Noooooo!" LOL -- I think Ruthie is a little young yet for that particular type of humor, although Isaac finds it very funny.
Ruthie has also started using two-word phrases with "more" e.g. "more milk" "more book" or (somewhat heart-breakingly, last night when I was taking a long time about parking the car after not having seen the kids all day), "more mama!" She still refuses to say an actual word for nursing; she will make the sign or make her little grunting noise, and I always try to get her to say "nursie" but she won't. But now she'll say "more" and then grunt. LOL.
I'm happy to say that my sore throat basically disappeared in time for the concert, yay. And the nausea and TMI from Friday has not recurred. However, today my stomach's still a little uneasy so I'm not sure what is "safe" to eat for lunch. sigh. But I better go figure something out, 'cause I'm getting hungry.
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