Yule Photo-shoot & Recital
[Photos taken 17 December 2019, posted online 01 June 2020. It’s Whit-Monday, a public holiday, cloudy but calm outside, riots abroad.]
Out of pure stubbornness (my defining characteristic), I still take photos of the kids every year, for the annual photo-calendar. (The rule of the calendar is that every month has photos from the same month of the previous year.)
This year I was running out of time as usual, so a random Tuesday was my day of choice. It coincided with Emma’s first yule-tide music school recital, which was more stressful for her than I’d realized. Next year I’ll try to avoid such a basic scheduling mistake, but it all worked out ok in the end. (20-ish photos)
Tuesday 17 December 2019
Autumn Colors, New Piano
[Photos from 22-25 September 2018, posted online 26 March 2019. Weather found the ‘spring’ setting again.]
We went to house #2 with friends, while the autumn colors were in full force. Back in the city, autumn weather said did its best to get rid of autumn colors, and we got a new piano!!! (50-ish images total)
Saturday 22 September 2018
Kids’ Spring Concerts
[Images and videos from 17-18 May 2016, posted online 18 May 2016. 9 pm feels like 5 pm daylight wise.]
Since I last blogged (27 April), Finnur’s traveled to England with his football-buddies for a long weekend, I’ve traveled to Prague with my sewing club girlfriends for a long weekend, and we spent the last weekend (also a long one!) at the summer-cottage by Laugarvatn!
Add to that the usual mix of full-time work, three kiddos, and spring looming with a thousand-and-one projects that seemingly need doing (but don’t get done, they just loom), and there is little to no energy left for frivolous things like, say, blogging.
But, I’m putting my fingers down to post that the big kiddos just finished their spring performances, with Anna on piano, and Bjarki on guitar.
Anna is not a big fan of performing, so she chose a simple short-ish song. The final decision on whether she’ll continue next year will be made on Friday, but most likely this is it for her formal music education.
Bjarki, on the other hand, is less jaded, and is game for another year of guitar.
Enough chit-chat, on with the media! (2 videos and 4 images total)
Tuesday 17 May 2016
Anna went first with “Bláu augun þín”. I apologize for the substandard sound quality!
Anna spilar á tónleikum
[Anna’s first recital ever! She was number five of about 30 students who showed off their mad piano-skillz. 🙂 See videos below.]
Í dag hóaði píanókennari Önnu öllum nemendum sínum og fjölskyldum þeirra saman fyrir vortónleika. Anna er búin að vera að læra á píanó hjá henni síðan í janúar og farið mikið fram. Undanfarnar vikur hefur hún verið að æfa Merry Go Round Waltz sem hún spilaði í dag og stóð sig afskaplega vel (miðað við aldur og fyrri störf 🙂 ). (Ef á forsíðunni: *Munið að smella á ‘Read the rest of this entry’ til að sjá allar myndirnar og myndböndin*)
Anna í bleika kjólnum sínum með dagskrá tónleikanna. Hún var númer fimm í röðinni af rúmlega þrjátíu flytjendum. Áður en tónleikarnir hófust þá bað kennarinn hana og nokkra aðra krakka að sitja fremst við píanóið.