snow, snow, snow, snow ... SNOW!

We will definitely be having a White Christmas this year. I think we've got about 8 (maybe 10) inches of snow right now, and it is still snowing. Great big fat flakes which I have come to realize is just the way it always snows in Moscow. We thought school was going to be cancelled yesterday because there was a fair amount of wind along with the snow, but no. (sigh) I think they are going to be a little more conservative with our snow days this year. Last year we ended up having 8 I think, and then had to add a couple extra days in June to make up for it.

Last night we got to attend another Christmas concert. This time it was the Lena Whitmore Elementary School Winter Concert and Anne and Stephen were both in it and besides singing both were chosen to play the xylophone. These pictures are a little dark. (I need to work on my photography a little.) If you click on them you can see them a little better.

This is Annie's class. Anne is standing at the largest xylophone.

This is Stephen's class. Stephen is the boy on the left playing the xylophone.

Watching the kids play was really neat and they did a great job. The concert was a good mixture of Hanukkah songs, funny Christmas and winter songs, and traditional songs like The First Noel and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. Stephen's class sang a funny song about wanting a snow day. Quite appropriate considering the concert was almost canceled because of the weather. The 4th grade class sang a clever song called Wenceslas meets a Yankee. It was basically a really funny combination of Good King Wenceslas and Yankee Doodle. It sounds really odd, I know, but it was really quite good. The concert made for another late night for the kids, but I guess that's just what happens this time of year. There's no way we could have missed it.