This past week Christmas has come in with a roar, concerts, get togethers and parties have all begun in earnest and our days are filled with bright colours and joyful sounds.
The beginning was A’s Christmas concert this past Tuesday. There is nothing quite like waiting to see your child (and let’s face it none of us would be there if our child wasn’t) in a blazing hot gymnasium full of parents and adults trying to find some small degree of comfort in the stack of winter clothes on the world’s most uncomfortable fold out chairs to usher in that Christmassy spirit.
It’s worth it though to see your child with all their classmates dressed in their Sunday best bright eyed and eager to sing their hearts out. Admittedly many don’t know all the words but those few phrases they all seem to remember which are actually sung in unison sound sweet in a way no adult choir can quite muster.
Without fail there is always one child or another who does something to draw the eye, a boisterous singer, one who fidgets or quite clearly has to pee, one with a dress pulled high above their stockings or even memorably a child who lifted his shirt to show the Hi! he had written on his stomach.
This year was a very nice production with the theme Christmas around the world and was well put together. Even if it came with the discovery that It’s a Small World is even more annoying in French. It also apparently gets wedged in my head just as firmly as the english version.
