The GOOD news - she got new hearing aids that can get her rejoicing music directly into her ears so Dad cannot turn it off because he doesn't want to hear it! This is awesome!
Her dear friend Gloria (my adopted mom since she has no daughter) gave us lighted angels, because she thinks we are angels (really, ME an angel?? My mom - YES!) Gloria told us to think of her when we look at the angels - then she said, "Oh that sounds bad - you should think of Jesus not me!" I said, "I will think of you and your friend Jesus". Settled. Anyway, we shed tears of joy at how God has sustained us and will continue to in our sorrows. God bless Gloria and my mom.
DRAMA: Tom, Elaine and I planned some Christmas songs at BonAventure during lunch. Well, a lady came up to us to ask us to please not sing and play - she had a terrible headache and the doctor doesn't know what is the matter. I asked if we could play softly, and she said NO - it will hurt her head too much. She went back to sit at her table.
I was going to cancel - not wanting even one person to be unhappy. (that is stupid) I looked at Elaine - who rolled her eyes at the "headache lady's" request. I asked Tom, who is the sweetest man ever, if we should sing and he said "yes, let's". I gulped, preparing to do it - and the "headache lady" came up and said she will go sit in another room with the door closed. So I played piano, they sang and people loved it.
After that, the buzz was WHO is this "headache lady" and why would she expect others to not enjoy music because she has a headache?
LAUGHTER: We waited 2 more days, and decided to do this again - this time acapella and 3 part harmony. We did 3 sets. The first set (3 songs) was awesome. Perfection. The second set - I could see the "headache lady" with her hands on her temples! (this made me want to really laugh but I held it in) In between the verses, Elaine asked me, "where is the 'headache lady' sitting?" I couldn't point her out, since we were standing in front of everyone! The second song in that set was a little sketchy on the bass, and Elaine was wondering where the "headache lady" is, and lost her words. I lost my composure (which I think I have a real disease of this) and could NOT stop laughing. Poor Tom was gimping along on bass all alone on Hark The Herald Angels Sing! That does not sound good with bass only - at all. We had to bail on that song. Third song - OK.
The third and final set, I asked if we may sing from the balcony - (out of sight of "headache lady", so I can keep my composure.) We went up the elevator 1 floor only. In elevator I said "let's just do a few measures to prepare" - we sang 3 verses,,, and I wondered how that happened IN the elevator. NO ONE PUSHED THE BUTTON. Oh my - I girded up all my strength to not think it was one bit funny. We got out and sang 3 songs perfectly. Whew!
I left Wenatchee to come home to make peanut brittle to send to Jason and Jordan in Maui - wearing the apron the boys made me when they were little - never dreaming 2 sons would live in Maui and not be coming home for Christmas.
I need Peppermint Schnapps.
