Busy Week Prior to the Christmas Musical "JOY"

I have been very busy this past week.  On Wednesday we had our Women on Mission Christmas meeting with a covered dish luncheon.  After that I had a meeting at the Senior Citizens Center with the director and the President.  I have been voted in as the Vice-President for the coming year.  I am to get the program for each monthly meeting in 2014.  We exchanged ideas with each other about that and also some items each of them had for the center.  We have a lot of work to complete in the upcoming year.

The first Wednesday of each month is senior day at the grocery store and we get 10% off of our purchases.  We did our monthly shopping and got it home and put away just in time to go to church.  Then after church we had our last choir practice.  It lasted until 9:00.  I was exhausted by the time we returned home.

On Thursday I helped my friend at the church by folding bulletins for 320 people.  We are expecting a full auditorium for the musical "JOY".  Then my her granddaughter and Walter met us for a Mexican lunch.  There is nothing I like much better than meeting friends for a meal and a long time of chatter.

On Friday I worked with five other people to cut and sew 20 angel costumes for the musical.  A local decorator let us use his workshop.  We cut and sewed the outfits from lining material that he donated.  It was the first time I ever serged a seam, much less on a professional serger.  It took a little while to get used to it.  After a few tries I was able to sew a good tight seam and the work went fast.  I didn't realize that the machine cuts the fabric and then sews the edges at the same time.  I had a lot to learn.  I was a little afraid of cutting or sewing my finger but no injury happened.

The Handmaidens knitted the gold scarfs that were around the angels necks.  I knitted two of them.  They added a little sparkle to their costumes.

Some of the Angels Waiting in Costume before the Musical

That evening we went to a local production of "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" play.  There were ten of us that attended.  Then after that we went to Shoney's for hot fudge cakes.  It was late when we got into bed that night.

Saturday we went to Brandon's first basketball game of the season.  His team lost the game but he had a couple of nice rebounds.  Maybe next Saturday his team will win.  We had a full rehearsal of the church musical after that.  We took a short nap to recharge for the night.  That evening we took a recently widowed friend of ours to the play "Tuna Christmas" at the Murfreesboro Center for the Arts.  It is always a hilarious performance every time we see it.  Our friend had never seen it, and she truly enjoyed it too.  We had a good meal at an Italian restaurant prior to the show.

Sunday we had two performances.  We had a full church.  The musical was wonderful with several nice solos.  The young people made great angels.

Our New Spotlight Highlights the Angels and Baby Jesus

We had a real baby in the musical.  It was our pastors grandson, Ben.  Our pastor joked that it was his first time in church and he had to play Jesus.  No stress there! 

The Choir in Performance

We sang nine songs.  That is Walter in the red bow tie.

Close Up of the Choir

Walter & I Show Off our New Sweaters

And we even took a little time to get our picture made in front of the decorated tree in the church welcome center.

God is good!