My Mom sang with a choir at this Christmas Creche Exhibit in Palo Alto on Sunday. I'm just now getting to the computer to write about what I was thinking about on the way home from the concert. (where does the time go?) Dave was sick so he stayed home with the boys and J and I made it a girls night. It was awesome- beautiful music and amazing creche scenes!
The hour-long concert was superb. I wish I had a recording of a lot of the songs they were that good- they sang more difficult arrangements of Christmas songs that I, as a long-time choir member, appreciated very much. There was a bell choir, violinist, flautist (yes, that is a word), fantastic organist and the choir. Mom sang a happy solo towards the end and I wished it was longer. When the choir director announced Mom's name as the soloist Aunt Lauren turned to J and said, "Do you know her?" J said NO. She only knows Mom as Gramma Evie so hearing her formal name didn't register. Plus she was too busy talking to Uncle Dan on his lap.
There were nativities from all over the world on display. It seemed every large room in the church was filled with glowing tables of nativites. The highlights were a picture of Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus made out of Legos (incredible!), nativities carved from wood, made out of foil paper, formed from clay, made out of bottle-brush and beautiful ornaments with the Madonna and Child on them. It was a feast for the eyes!
My favorite nativity was a contemporary scene carved out of different colored woods from China. J-bird loved the Lego creation. She thought it was cool that it looked funny up close and then came into focus the farther she stepped away. It was good I didn't take my camera because I would have been SO tempted to snap away even though photos weren't allowed.
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