So, our main acitivity on Saturday mornings is music lessons from 8:45 am till about 12:15 pm Last Saturday after Junior Choir class, we ran into Anne, Camille's former Flute teacher through WC-CSA. The day was so warm and sunny that she and her three students were practicing outside, away from the usual 'ol stuffy classroom. If it were still last year, Camille would be right smack dab in the middle of the group, practicing/playing her heart out on her Pearl flute. She bacame such a good flutist because of Anne's expertise, and her own efforts and rigorous practice sessions. Yes, it was good to see Anne once again.
How I miss Camille and how I miss flute lessons! I miss the applause during Recital season for her playing so well. I miss being spoiled with the constant "noise" of flute and piano music throughout our home. Her siblings still play the piano quite often, thank God (now you can add Clarinet to the mix); and Kristi picks up her guitar and sings now and again, but the Flute has been silenced -- at least temporarily. In 3 and a half years, Lord willing, we'll have a Flute-playing Registered Nurse in the house!
That's the best-case scenario. Realistically speaking, the children will slowly, but surely be leaving and living on their own, taking their music with them. Their future families will certainly benefit; but as far as the music being exlusively mine and Romy's, those days are numbered. So, will the fun be over in the future? Will the noise level in our home be finally reduced to dead silence (horrors! yuck! no way!). Hopefully not. Lord willing, there will always be RRE Family parties and get-togethers. And Christmas parties. And...I can hardly wait for this: our children's weddings, their future families, our future gazillion Grandkids! May it be so, Lord, may it be so.
Camille modelling a John Atencio Yellow Topaz ring with her Pearl-brand Flute.
Camille in her Fencing outfit/uniform (modelling my Chanel bag)
...how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a three-fold cord is not quickly broken. Ecclesiastes 4: 11, 12
