Gone

By the end of the day, I was down to eight students (normally 12).

We started with one kid home sick with a sore throat. The next one we lost at about 10:00 due to an ear infection. The last two went home at 1:30 because they're not participating in the Christmas program and their mom picked them up early so they wouldn't have to sit in the pews for an hour doing nothing. It was very strange to have so few kids!

Program practice went well, aside from one mic deciding to malfunction most of practice. We didn't have any risers set up, but the kids found their spots anyway and we ran through the whole thing in about 40min or so, not including bell songs, including a few stops and starts for notes along the way.

Prior to that, the 6-8th graders practiced bells again since our one song is so hard. It actually sounds really cool! Today we added the tone chimes for the first time and that in particular sounds really good. We only have two more practices to get everything down pat, but I'm hoping we'll have enough time to run through bell songs during practice every day.

Can you believe it's only 12 days until Christmas??? We only have five days of school left this month...