Sunday night my sweet girl made her choir debut at church. She is now a member of the Sonshine Choir, which is made up of four and five year olds. I am lucky enough to be one of the assistants and we have lots of fun on Wednesday nights.
They entertained all the parents and grandparents with five songs heralding the coming Christmas season. They were all precious, and my girl was of course front and center of the group in both position on the stage and performance!! She gave the cute little waves to us in the audience, smiled so sweetly and performed the hand motions to the songs in such a way that everyone around us giggled and rejoiced with us.
This afternoon we pulled out the video and hooked it up so we could watch the performance again during dinner. I had the best memory come to my mind. I remembered many years ago, when we attended another church, how every time the preschool choir sang for church, my husband and I would just sit and laugh at the cuteness factor. It was always irrestible to see those cute kids and all their antics! I can remember just being anxious with the anticipation of when our child would be a part of that group. Later in our life, after years of not being able to have a child, we stopped attending services where any kind of children would be highlighted, (baby dedications, choir performances, children musicals, sometimes sadly even Christmas services) because the pain of being childless amongst our peers would be too much.
Sunday night marked the first time in probably ten years that my hubs and I were able to sit and enjoy a children's performance for all it was worth. It was so much fun and tonight around the dinner table, it was even more fun watching the video. Halfway through it, Danny reached over and put his arm around my waist as we watched the video together, laughing at the sweet faces of all the children, including our own sweet. I think we both realized how far we have come on this road to parenthood, how much we would have missed had we not been privileged to have her in our life and how much we need to remind ourselves not to take a moment for granted.
Here are two pictures of the choir as they practiced before the performance. The pictures are a bit blurry - that is the price you pay for trying to photograph four year olds while they are singing -- they are a very animated group!!
1 comment:
I was right there with you for so many years. Each first church thing was so emotional for me. You can never really express how much it means to you. People who have their own biological children can not really understand--it is something that is always there for them. I am glad that you had this great first.
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