Pinky Promise

     Many of you may know this already, but as a family, the kids and I play music and sing. Today we had a show in Nunda with the happiest bunch of people. I must have talked over an hour after the show to people coming up to share something about our performance, something that touched them...a song that we sang or to encourage us to keep at it. 

     My husband was working and my mom couldn't go with us, so the kids and I went ourselves. The little kids were very well behaved and I was thankful for that. Sometimes the two little boys start fooling around, but they were good today. At one point, they started hitting each other with little sticks, but I gave them the beastly eyeballs, and they stopped.

     This week, we've been working on getting the house in order, putting together our schedules for the school year, and planning music lessons. I've been reading so many good books that I want to share, but just haven't had the time. I've been trying to go to bed earlier at night and today, I picked up my new day planner for the year. It's exciting starting fresh, isn't it? The girls even came home and cleaned their rooms...now that's excitement!

     In this last picture, this little girl made Michael pinky promise that he'll always play the banjo. In Japan, the "pinky promise" originally indicated that the person who breaks the promise must cut off their pinky finger. Hmmm...Pretty serious stuff.