Last Thursday evening I went to my nieces SD and MG's Christmas program at their school. I heard the program the year before was about two hours long so I was not looking forward to going. But I had already skipped MG's Thanksgiving program so I felt like I had to go. I mean it was good (as good as these things can be) and at the very least I got a blog post out of it so here are my thoughts:
The principal. Now I am sure she is a nice lady but I really wanted her to be quiet and sit down so we could get the show on the road. Plus her little speech was filled with cliches and I mean I use them too but not all in one sentence. And she was also mispronouncing words. And I don't mean names in the Bible with thirteen consonants but regular, average, every day words. Maybe she was just nervous but the amount of time she spent with the mic in her hand, I don't think so. Sorry, that was judgmental.
There was this one girl in the front row of the center and she was just distracting. She was in maybe the fourth or fifth grade, wearing this pink sweater, and she was just moving around, awkwardly bopping to the music. You could try to argue she was overtaken by the music but she wasn't moving in time with the music at all. In fact, she was extremely off and it was distracting.
But man some of those kids could sing! It actually made me hate myself a little because I have no singing talent in comparison to some of those kids in like the second grade.
Oh and smart move who ever staged the nativity scene in the center of the stage and had half of the kids sit on chairs or stools and therefore blocking 45% of the other kids on stage. Glad the parents of those nine kids got a good look the entire time, and the parents of like twenty-five other kids missed out on filming opportunities during their kids' single one minute long song.
Now I'm not a parent and maybe I'll be the same way but you just have to laugh at some of them. Especially when you look around the room at all these video camera displays that are zoomed really close in on their kid, but their kid is just standing there, staring off into space, or picking their nose. Really? You aren't going to film the kid singing a solo or reciting a bible verse but your kid just standing there? At the very least film the whole stage.
This one little girl, she was probably in the first or second grade, was dressed to the nines. Sparkly outfit, bows in her hair, and I think she had on quite a bit of makeup since I could make out her features from the third row from the back. But she sang her little line in the song and as she is walking back to her spot (in the middle of a song) her family broke out into whoops and hollers and then it all made sense why she was so dressed up. I wouldn't be surprised if she has been featured on a season of Toddlers and Tiaras.
We were required to stand and sing carols while the classes changed on the stage. I did not enjoy being forced to engage in the christmas program. But this old man behind me, boy oh boy could he sing! It was like he took it upon himself to carry the slack of everyone else like me who refused to do anything beyond mouthing the words.
And I have good things to say about it too: The 7th and 8th grade did a nice little rendition of "Silent Night" (at least I think that is what it was. I don't remember and I didn't receive a program upon arrival so my memory will just have to do). And I remember thinking "Man there is one girl up there who can really sing!" And they had probably eight or ten kids do little mini solos and some of them sounded really good but none were this great voice I was hearing in the background. I kept wondering why they didn't give that girl a solo and so I made it my mission to figure out which one it was. After several minutes I realized it was the adult piano player chiming in. I felt so cheated.
They did a cute little number of the twelve days of christmas. And got creative like when it was "four calling birds" they had a girl yapping on a cell phone with a feather boa. Little things like that, it was cute. And the kid giving out all of the stuff to his "true love" totally reminded me of my friend AW and was probably like him when he was eleven. It was a little mindtrippy.
Oh they also used a real baby for baby Jesus in the nativity scene. "Jesus" was pretty upset towards the end. She was crying a lot. And the angel definitely wasn't supporting her neck when lifting her out of the manager. I cringed and I bet her mom did too.
And of course my nieces did a great job. As did family friend LRT, a fellow kindergartner in MG's class. SD knew all of the motions to "Go Tell It on the Mountain" and she has memorized a long, and I mean LONG, Christmas Bible verse so I don't know why she wasn't chosen to recite a line. I might have to place some calls tomorrow. And niece MG did a great job ringing the "magenta not purple" bell whenever her teacher held up a sign telling her to do so. Oh and they both looked adorable in their dresses and tights and cute shoes. And it was only a little longer than an hour so a win for everybody!
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