Bows At The Ready

Happy February, everyone! Long time, no blog see!

Things continue rolling along here at Casa la PM. We still have no snow on the ground, and any that has tried to make an appearance has been unceremoniously melted away within days. I keep waiting for winter to start....

Super proud mama moment today! It was the "All-City Orchestra" concert where the newbies (aka the fifth graders) joined the seasoned veterans (high schoolers) for a mass orchestra extravaganza.

The twelfth graders were really quite amazing, and gave us parents of new cello players a lot of hope for the future.

The fifth graders were also amazing, although their repertoire is still pretty scanty, hence the playing of Jingle Bells three days before Valentine's.

Here's our budding star:

And here's the orchestra en masse (it's Dona Nobis Pacem just in case you can't quite place it. I think one grade is ever so slightly ahead of the rest...):

And despite the high schoolers' attempt to be super-relevant by playing a Lady Gaga medley, this was The Boy's reaction to the concert: