Cheers!

Between the title of the last post and this one, you would think I'm a big drinker. Not unless you're referring to Arnold Palmer's, in which case I am. No, I'm talking about the place. You know, the tv show.  I was going to write a long post about the live Mercy Me concerts online and how all the folks who are in the chatroom during the show have become my friends and all that.

Unfortunately, and nice and kind and good thoughts I had about that have been pushed out of my head. By what you ask? Stress and Christmas carols.  The stress coming from the fact that we are 30 school days away from the Christmas program. That I'm still working on. This is a hard one. I wrote the dialogue and chose the songs and I'm just afraid it's going to be a big flop.  That and we're kind of getting a late start. It'll be ready to start teaching them by Monday.  At least that's what I'm promising myself. 

In year's past, we've had a larger group with older kids, and done a full-blown musical. This year with just the Pre-K and Kindergarten, things are different.  Our theme is "Christmas Around the World".  I am excited about the songs I've found. Did you know you can get "Jingle Bells" in ANY style you could ever want on itunes?!?  I've spent hours today listening to song clips to determine which is best for the 12 songs we need.  The daycare classes sing 2 songs each, and then the Pre-K and Kindergarten will do a mini-play with 6 songs throughout. 

The other issue is that this is the first time I've done anything like this. I'm trying to rest in the knowledge that I've put my all into this and done my best, and no matter what anyone says about it, it's a good thing.  That's hard.  I could never, ever be someone who constantly gets critiqued on what they do. My skin is not that thick!  Well, back to itunes.  I need one more Christmas song that fits in with our theme. It's not as easy as you might think.

Comments

[chrissy]

Lisa, I am sure it is going to be great! Allow yourself to enjoy what you have done! Now it's time to teach it to the kids and have fun with it!! Not be perfect enjoy what you have done and your time teaching the children!