Sunday (no imagination there!)

I am exhausted.   I have been going, going, going!  Yesterday was the women's fall conference at our church and Katie and I sang for it.  We have been preparing for weeks. (We are in a group with 4 other women)  It is fun and I love it, but it takes so much time and energy that I just have to push myself to do it.  It went fantastic and now I am so glad that I spent my time and energy to do it.  Tonight is the "Night of Praise" at my church.  We are doing a Concert called We're Here to Worship.  

It is so awesome and I am so excited to present it to our congregation. Oh, and the best part is that Katie and Matt have a duet!  Their first ever. It's so good. Our church is rather traditional in it's musical preferences, but we (the music leadership) are trying to bring the church into the 21st century!  So, we now have what is called a "Blended" service, with both traditional and contemporary music.  It works well. This Thursday I leave to go to Merritt Island, Florida for a 3 day Music Leadership Conference.  We have one every other year and it is the most incredible thing I get to do in my musical life.  I learn so much and get on fire to put into practice all that I learn.  My children's choir really benefits.  I am the only children's choir director that goes to these conferences and it shows. (Everyone of them can go, they just don't) My choir is full and the kids love it because I keep them moving and laughing and their performance skills shine brighter than any of the other choir because I have learned how to get the best out of them and in turn they have fun doing it!  I have lots of boys in my choir who play sports and come dressed in their practice uniforms so they won't miss choir!  It's awesome.  I had one boy talk his mom's ear off after choir last week telling her all about it and how this is going to be his "best year ever!"  I had to laugh when she told me.  She said, "I don't know what you are doing in there, but whatever it is, keep it up!"  That makes me feel so good.

Anyway, enough patting myself on the back.  It is as hot as "you know what" here in Florida!!!  It's still in the 90's everyday!  I ripped my blazer off in the church parking lot this morning! Oh, and I must share my embarrasing moment with you all. ( Scott, you might just want to click on the little red X now! ha ha)  I bought a new slip last week. . .a full slip.  I wore it today under my black sleeveless dress.  Well, remember that I am in the praise team up on stage, and I looked down and saw the top of my slip peaking out of the top of my dress.  Thank goodness I had on a blazer, so I just pulled the blazer in a little to hide it.  By the time church was over, that stupid slip had worked it's way up so much that there was now 2 inches of slip sticking out of the top of my dress!  When I got into the car I reached up from the bottom to pull it down and couldn't find it. . .why? because it was bunched up around my waist!  Well, that slip is history. I am constantly having wardrobe malfuntions!  Last week I had a big run in my black panty-hose that ran down to about 2 inches above my knee. ( I put nail plish on it to stop the run, but the only color I could find was red) My skirt came down to just below the knee, so I'm thinking that I'm ok.  Well, I wasn't!  Again I'm up on the stage infront of 1,000 people try sitting on a stool in a skirt that comes to just below the knee!  It ends up about 3 inches above the knee and lo and behold there is the big run, and there was no way to hide it. So I sat with my hand on it.  Unbelievable.  That's my life!  Unbelievable!

I am now going to be rushing to get ready for tonight, but never fear. . .I am wearing black dress pants.  What could go wrong there?  ~later