The Gift of Song
Tonight we took our girls caroling at the long term care facility. My Missionettes girls are in 4th grade, and at the spur of the moment, we joined the middle school and high school girls to drive across town (a whole two minute drive) and do two laps around the really tiny wing of the hospital. Please don't imagine well dressed girls with caps and coordinating song books. We were a rag tag bunch singing the choruses from memory. Please don't imagine beautiful rounds and well practiced carols. We sang off key renditions of Jingle Bells, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Silent Night and We Wish You a Merry Christmas. We busted up on our attempt at Away in a Manger and moved on. This has been a pretty standard activity for my group of girls for the last, wow, eight years. Usually I am just a tag-a-long. Rarely am I the one that organizes any of it. Some years we practice. Most years we don't. S...