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Piano Lessons
Madison is one of those kids who can hear a song once and sing it back to you. It happened to use again last night. We were at Michael’s and she heard a Christmas song that I’m pretty sure she’s not heard before. The rest of our shopping trip, she continued to sing the song and the correct words to the song. She may never be the best forensic accountant, but she sure can remember music.
That being said, Madison has been dying to learn how to play piano. To be honest, I’m not sure why. She had been asking for months, but we recently decided to sign her up. We can’t afford a piano right now (even the best forensic accounting services isn’t going to find money for that in our budget), so I picked her up a really nice keyboard. She’s already had 2 lessons, and this week she is suppose to learn Mary Had a Little Lamb. She’s super excited. :) Its a tad painful for me to watch her lessons and her struggle, but it is pretty amazing to see her “get” it. What she struggled with last Wednesday, she is playing perfectly today. Ahhh, to be young again.
I’m hoping this is something she will continue with. I think she’s got a “sixth” sense with music, and I hope she will love to play.
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Holiday Cleanup
How do you clean up after the holidays? For us, it is a tad more interesting. Madison’s birthday was yesterday (she turned 5!), so we always have the quick cleanup that needs to be done from the time we get back from visiting Wisconsin and her birthday party. I usually get about a week if we are lucky. Since we have the basement now, Bill let me keep up the Christmasy decorations, but we did pull down the Christmas tree. I need as much room as we can get, and this is pretty much the only way I was going to get it. I figure everybody will hang out downstairs for her party just like they did for Christmas Eve. The sad thing is that we are the only one on the block who still has their outdoor lights up. Now, we don’t leave them up till June or anything, but it seems that it is kinda odd that on 8th of January that everyone has packed up everything already. Now, I’ve slacked this week, and I have to get all my cleaning done tomorrow with the kids underfoot. This should be interesting. My sister is arriving tomorrow, so its not quite the end of the world if she’s the only one who sees my non-clean house.
How do you clean up? Do you have a set plan? Do you just do a little bit each day?
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Snow Day!
It is terrible here in Illinois. This is what my house looks like this morning:
We broke our back door trying to open it this morning. My house is a sheet of ice. We have about 4 inches of snow. On top of that, we have freezing rain, so it is definitely an interesting combination we have going on out there. We watched the traffic report starting quite early this morning, and at this point, Bill isn’t even going to try and go to work. The bad thing is that he left his laptop at work, so he’s trying to do what he can from his cell phone. It actually was hailing and snowing at the same time this morning if you can believe it. We are hoping to take the kids out a tad later and maybe build a snowman. However, the snow is more like ice chunks, so I don’t know how easy that is going to be.
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