Hip, Hip, Hooray!

DD and I just, and I mean JUST, finished up Algebra for the 1st semester. YIPPEE!!! Did you hear the shouting?!?! What a relief to be done with that! It's been a struggle all the way through, but she's finally getting it. Maybe now I can have a life (at least until January) LOL.

It is not my custom to allow TV viewing during Algebra time because DD is VERY EASILY DISTRACTED, especially when she's having to do something she doesn't want to be doing in the first place. However, tonight I made the one-time exception so that we could watch Susan Boyle on TV Guide Network. We watched her video on YouTube several months ago as she auditioned for Britain's Got Talent so we knew she was a wonderful singer. During the show tonight, they didn't actually ever show her singing the song, but I kept hearing clips of "Wild Horses" by the Rolling Stones. Don't throw rotten tomatoes at me, but I'm not a real big fan of the Rolling Stones. However, I am familiar with this song and I knew it wasn't the Rolling Stones singing it on the show...I could at least tell that much. So I went to my trusty dumbputer and looked it up on YouTube. WOW! Susan Boyles version of "Wild Horses" BLOWS the Stone version outta the water! You HAVE to listen to it. Click here and turn up the volume: WILD HORSES.

The Grand Performance

F.A.B.U.L.O.U.S.
That's how DD's 1st concert performing with the Community Band was last Sunday afternoon. Fabulous!

It was held in the theater at the local high school. They played everything from Beethoven to Glenn Miller. And, they were GOOD!!!!! It was like going to the philharmonic or the symphony (only without the string section). They even got standing ovations. It's a long way from Mary Had A Little Lamb that was played at the Elementary and Middle School band concert held last year. That's For Sure!

And, at intermission, there was all sorts of goodies (cookies, brownies, etc.). YUMMY!

Now, the band is taking a 3 week break from rehearsals, and DD is beyond SAD. She had to turn in her music after the concert. She has been going through the music that she has here, and she says it's all WAY TOO EASY. She is counting the days until she gets to go to band again and get the new songs that they will be playing for the summer concert in June.

A New Dress

What are two girls supposed to do on a cold Valentine's Day? Sew a new dress of course. DD and I spent the afternoon making a dress for her to wear to her upcoming band concert next month. We took a T-shirt with some smocking on the front bodice that she already had. We bought some print fabric a couple weeks ago - it has little music notes and instruments all over it - CUTE! She normally wouldn't pick black and white because she hates black, but for band concerts everyone must wear black and white so she had no choice in the matter.

Then, using a pattern from youcanmakethis.com (LOVE that site!), we put this dress together lickety split. (I have no idea why she has that strange look on her face like her lips are superglued together. Or, why the dress is looking sorta potato sackish. It's probably the way she is standing. I guess we need some modeling practice. The dress really is cute in person.)

Here's the fabric up close:

Now, we have to get some new shoes!