I'm wondering...

If I change back to my old template, (I found a way to do that) will it keep on archiving the way it should? I think I'll try it out.

So much has been happening recently. A family came to visit us, taking six of their seven children with them. The house was wonderfully full for about two days. They came on New Years Eve and left the day after New Years Day. We played cards and cooked and moved around tables and found chairs, and Mama bought Apples to Apples to play while they were here - and then we found out that they had brought theirs, so that was funny - and since it was during the twelve days of Christmas we hung up stockings for them, too.

The sad thing was that the morning they left Mama got an email that said a church friend of ours had passed away very early that morning. She didn't say anything about it until after they left, though. It would have spoiled it for everybody else. Elaienar and I were there when she opened the email, though, so we knew. His memorial service was soon after, (I can't remember exactly when) and his funeral will be on Thursday this week.

My recital is on Friday. I'm playing three movements of a sonatina by Kuhlau for it. I don't know why I chose it... No, wait, I do. There are two eight-measure-long parts in the first movement that are beautiful is one reason, another is that I was actually able to play it the fist time I tried, (if I went absolutely super slow) and the third is that it has three movements. Apparently I am Mrs Richardson's star student... And I've only been playing for three years. I've gotten to the point where I'm having to tell people that I'm an advanced intermediate. It's kind of embarrassing. When I was volunteering at the Washington Birthplace the woman there was being sure I told her everything I could do that might be useful. She wanted to know if I played the piano and how well I do it, (because they have a Spinnet) so I had to tell her I was an advanced intermediate. Mama can tell the difference from when I started, and I sort of can, but I'd have to see a before and after to really know.