{"id":6976,"date":"2012-11-18T18:10:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T00:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=6976"},"modified":"2012-11-18T18:10:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T00:10:29","slug":"im-thankful-we-made-it-through-that-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=6976","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m thankful we made it through that week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ash3\/148544_10151513532603502_788777595_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, we survived another busy concert week!  <\/p>\n<p>With rehearsal on Tuesday, Wed, Thursday and a concert on Friday night and then a Music and the Spoken Word braodcast on Sunday morning, I was gone about 22 hours for bells.  *Whew!*<\/p>\n<p>Saturday night I woke up and the room was spinning.  Really.  I was really thirsty, but didn&#8217;t want to risk getting up out of bed to get a drink, so I just tried to sleep and make the spinning stop.  What a horrible feeling.  By morning, there was no spinning, but I still felt awful.  Not sure if it was a bug of some kind, or if it was just exhaustion.  I spent most of the day lazing around.  So thankful I didn&#8217;t have a whole long list of things I was supposed to get done that day!<\/p>\n<p>The concert went very well.  We even lightened things up with &#8220;Blue Christmas&#8221; and &#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221;.  I haven&#8217;t found any reviews online yet, but you know if I do, I will post it (if it&#8217;s a good review, that is).<\/p>\n<p>Now we get a week off for Thanksgiving and then we will work on our songs for the Tabernacle Choir Christmas concerts and our next Music and the Spoken word appearance.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, my little chime choir is up to 12 kids, now.  I&#8217;m a little worried about our concert in two weeks.  I still haven&#8217;t gotten the morning group and the afternoon group together, so we haven&#8217;t played a whole song all together.  But people probably don&#8217;t expect too much of us, so if we crash and burn I can blame it on the fact that I&#8217;m working with 3rd-6th graders here.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still trying to drum up votes in our grant competition.  If you haven&#8217;t taken the time to register your email and vote, please do so.  You can find out about it <a href=\"https:\/\/powerabrightfuture.clorox.com\/\">here<\/a>.  You can just search for &#8216;handbells&#8217; (it&#8217;s the only grant request to mention handbells), and then if you could force everyone in your family with a cell phone to text in once a day, I wouldn&#8217;t complain.  We are currently ranked 128th, so that&#8217;s only 127 other grants we need to surpass to assure our money!<\/p>\n<p>And in other news, we are getting excited for Thanksgiving! I bought all the stuff to make these little critters.<a href=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/turkeys.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/turkeys-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"turkeys\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/turkeys-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/turkeys.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also found these great hats at Target so all my turkeys could be ready for Thanksgiving!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/turkey-kids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/turkey-kids-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"turkey kids\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/turkey-kids-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/turkey-kids.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have to cook a turkey, but probably will, just so we can have all the yummy turkey leftovers.  For our big family party, I am assigned green beans, so I will make up a huge amount of my favorite bacon, apple green beans.  <\/p>\n<p>What are your plans for Thanksgiving?  Travel?  Guests?  Lots of cooking?  Whatever your plans may be, remember to be thankful for your family and those you love!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we survived another busy concert week! With rehearsal on Tuesday, Wed, Thursday and a concert on Friday night and then a Music and the Spoken Word braodcast on Sunday morning, I was gone about 22 hours for bells. *Whew!* Saturday night I woke up and the room was spinning. Really. I was really thirsty, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,15,4,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6976"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6985,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976\/revisions\/6985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}