Practice With All Your Might/ Anatolia Talent Show

Rachel got up from sitting at the piano practicing for this weeks talent show at church.  I was sitting in the living room listening to her and I got up at the same time she did and walked behind her into the kitchen.  As I walked by the piano I turned off the piano light and said, "Turn off the light when you are done practicing".  Rachel turned around and said, "huh?" and I repeated myself.  Then she said, "Ohhh, I thought you said, "Practice with all your might!"  Which made me laugh and I jokingly said, "Yeah right, I would really say, Practice with all your might!"  Then she said, "Well you do say weird stuff like that sometimes!"....
Thanks Rachel.


Here is her performance at the Anatolia talent show.  Think of Me from Phantom of the Opera,

Think of Me

My sweet Rachel trying to show me "Think of Me" from Phantom of the Opera.  Barely controlled chaos is how I would describe my house some days.  Love my little piano player though!  She was gone for a sleepover a week ago Friday and it made me realize how much I love hearing Rachel and Julia too playing the piano.  It felt strange not to hear the piano played every few hours-I missed it!

 Julia-the life of a home-schooler. Seminary,  math, go swimming, practice piano, get a snack, work on the rest of school, do chores, go to cheer then come home and collapse.  On the way to piano lessons yesterday she said, "I'm so busy all the time!"

This picture of my Mom, "Grammy" to my kids, makes me so happy,  David did so well at his piano lesson yesterday because he has had my Mom, who took piano from  kindergarten until her sophmore year in high school to help him practice.  The piano they are playing on was an eighth grade graduation present from my Nonnie, my mom's mom.  We just got it tuned yesterday and it sounds fabulous.
I was outside watering yesterday but could hear the piano being played; it was a song my Mom used to play  when I was a little girl.  I thought maybe one of the girls had been looking through Grammy's sheet music and started to play it but when I went in the house it was my Mom playing.  She hasn't really played the piano that much in the last fifteen years or so because of arthritis in her fingers and the piano needing to be tuned.  When I saw her and said, "Oh, I thought it was one of girls playing but that song sounded so familiar from growing up hearing you play it but I thought you couldn't really play anymore?!"  Mom said, "Well with all the piano playing going on aroud here it made me want to play too!"

Taylor Swift Plays Piano

Rachel as Taylor Swift, (think Love Story), playing her latest piano song.

This is right before we left for the Visions charter school, Harvest Festival.