Wednesday

As you can see from the bios on our WEBSITE and on this blog, Papa and Mom are the music directors at Troy United Methodist church. Consequently, we are pretty involved in the church programs. We usually only go to church twice a week; Sunday and Wednesday. On Wednesday after a delicious dinner they have youth groups, activities for kids, Bible studies, chancel choir rehearsal, handbell choir rehearsal, children's choir rehearsal, etc. Naturally, being the music directors, Papa and Mom direct all three choirs. Papa directs the chancel and handbell choirs, and Mom accompanies the chancel choir and directs the children's choir which Gloria, Thor, Cecily, and Knut all go to. Afterward they go to the kids activities. Bjorn sometimes goes, also, but other times he just hangs out with Papa 'helping' direct choir. I do chancel choir, the first half of handbell choir, and go to small group time in the youth group, making up for lost practice time in handbells earlier in the day while only the staff is in the church.

We usually leave for church at about 2:00 in the afternoon. Often some of us have unfinished schoolwork, so we bring our books along. There is a nice little play area downstairs with games, coloring books, Legos, and dolls for the little ones (and not-so-little ones like Thor and Cecily) can play, and the youth room with the nice couches is available until 5:00, when we go down to dinner and the youth start to arrive. We usually finish our schoolwork there. If we have music practice, we can either do it in the Sanctuary or the rehearsal room. Rosemary loves to lie on the floor and listen, no matter how badly we play! She's very encouraging. :)