Like most homeschoolers, we are always on the lookout for ways to “broaden our kids’ horizons” (that is, make them do stuff they are pretty sure they will not like and have no desire to do). So, Saturday night we dragged them off to a gospel quartet concert.

They group was experiencing the classic “technical difficulties.” Miss Language was quick to point out to Mr Music that the Bananalets could form their own quartet, and so, to the mortification of Miss Dance, they began rehearsing… starting with Go Fish Guys’ Christmas and You  followed by (on a roll here now with the Christmas theme) they worked on Babe’s Jingle Bells (la la la  la la la).

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Whether for better or worse, the quartet got the microphone working at that point and so the Bananalet rehearsal came to an end. It turned out Miss Dog Lover did not like the way the floor vibrated when the bass singer hit his really low notes. At all.

Dragging them off to this reminded me of this dragging kids to church story I read on someone’s wonderful blog. Only I can’t remember whose, so I found it here on a search. Sorry if it was yours. I retraced as many footsteps as I could remember. I think it was a green background… I hope that is the only kind of drug problem my kids ever have.