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It's hard to believe it's already December 21! The last few weeks have been so busy! My 4th grade honor choir sang 7 concerts last week, and then this Tuesday my third graders performed their holiday program! Whew! My students did fantastic, but I am very relieved that I don't have another program to put on until February!

My Grandma Dolores is here visiting from Minnesota, and, as many of you know, she is slightly hard of hearing. I explained to my students that my somewhat-deaf grandma was coming to the concert (all the way from Minnesota--this really impressed them!) and that, if she was going to hear anything at their performance, they were each going to have to sing very strongly. (Don't worry, all my sweet vocal major friends---I don't teach them to sing "loud"--just "strong.") Well, my story apparently made quite an impression on them, because they did sing very well...but, yesterday I got an e-mail from a mother of one of my students who asked if the whole "deaf Grandma from Minnesota" story was real, because her daughter told her in all seriousness that "Mrs. Rinn said we had to sing loud enough so that her grandma could hear the concert!" I laughed so hard, especially when the mom asked if it was true or just a tactic I use to get my students to sing well! Ha! It was truly special for me to have both of my grandmothers at my Christmas concert!

We also sold our Camry tonight. We had half-heartedly been trying to sell it via the newspaper since we bought the Tahoe in September. But, my parent's good friends Kenn & Kath bought it and are going to give it to a family as a gift! We had a lot of great memories in our car (many, many long trips to Colorado and Minnesota!), but we are very happy that our car is going to someone who is receiving it as a gift through our friends! God really does work all things out--even the details of selling a car! Here are a few good-bye pictures of us with the Camry!