Joy To The World

 

Merry Christmas 2020

We had a Merry Christmas. Lillie got a lot of nice things. Santa is always good to her. We can’t believe we have been in quarantine since March. Every year Santa brings Lillie an ornament. This year he gave her a mask ornament!!  Very funny to remember this covid year. 

Happy Thanksgiving

Because of Covid we didn’t do our normal tradition of heading out of town, going out to a scrumptious dinner at a fancy restaurant and going shopping at midnight. This year we stayed at home and made our own thanksgiving dinner and decorated for Christmas!!

 

Happy Halloween

 Our little Lillie always has fun during Halloween!!

Our Minnie Mouse Playing her Violin

 Playing a recording for her school Halloween concert. 

Chesapeake Youth Symphony COVID style

Here is our Lillie playing with her youth symphony COVID style. They bought each student all the equipment to be able to play all together over the internet. It is very cool. 

First day of school 2020

Our usual neighborhood bus picture got messed up because they are all online and not going to school. But we saw Jake Parsons riding his bike and stopped him for a picture on the first couple of days of school!!

Our little musician

We are so proud of Lillie.  She has practiced her violin so diligently over all these years.  We got this email from the Chesapeake Youth Symphony (CYSO).

Dear CYSO Musician,

Welcome to the 31st season of the Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestra. We are busy planning a wonderful 2020-2021 season for you.  We are excited to offer you a position in the Chamber Orchestra & Symphony Orchestra.

She made into the two highest orchestras.   In all this pandemic the orchestra will try to play synchronously online twice and month, and meet the other two, really distanced out from each other, wearing masks.  And the winds and brass will never meet because their instruments spew too much aerosol in the air.  So they will use a program to play with the strings online.  Should be interesting. 

First day of school--Sophomore year!

Today was Lillie's first day of her Sophomore year.  We just can't believe it.  She has Honors English, AP Government, Honors Pre Calculus, Honors Chemistry, Orchestra, Health and American Sign Language.  She is such a smart girl.  We never have to worry about her.  This year, the first part of school will be online.  So things are a little different because of the pandemic we find ourselves in.  Here she is set up in the guest room office.  It has a nice desk for her to use.  We all need separate areas sine we are all on zoom meetings at the same time.  She is going to have a great year!

23 years—our anniversary

We celebrated in covid style by going to a resort town, Middleburg Virginia. We went to a very safe Red Fox Inn. It’s a very quaint inn, in a great town. There were lot of little shops on the Main Street. Middleburg is about 2 hours from our home. We had a little cottage for our room, with two bedrooms and two baths!!  Unheard of.

We had a nice dinner at the Piedmont Grill. It was a special weekend to celebrate a wonderful event!!!