A Very Merry Covid Christmas Piano Recital

We got to have a piano recital!!!!   Thanks to COVID (boo!) we didn't do our June recital.  So it had been a whole year since our last recital.  It felt so good to be back.  Well, it felt good to me-- maybe not so good to my students who had to perform:)  Although they all played very well.  I do know that these five Fox kids were very happy and excited to play and they did great!  The Christmas recital has become one of our favorite family Christmas traditions.

Even if we did have to wear masks and sanitize the heck out of the keys...

... and social distance our seating.

This was Greta's very first piano recital and she played "Away in a Manger".  I just wanted to eat her up, she was so cute. 

 Here is the link of her performance.  

Peter did a fantastic job with "The Little Drummer Boy".

George nailed "Deck the Halls"

Cannon really enjoyed playing "Ding Dong! Merrily on High"

Faith played a medley of "Infant Holy, Infant Lowly" and "Away in a Manger"

Elinor wanted to play in the recital but she is a busy girl and hadn't found the time to work on her piece.  So the afternoon of the recital she sat down for a couple hours and put this little number together.  I was impressed:) "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"

One of the things I like best about the recitals is watching, not only our own children grow up and progress, but so many friends and neighbors as well.  These four boys sat on the front row and gave each other and others standing ovations.  They would also yell out at me (as requested they do) to sanitize the keys between performers.  

In order to keep our numbers lower, we did a 6:00 recital and a 7:00 recital.  Here are my 6:00 kids.  

And my 7:00 kids.  Our kids played in both so the recitals weren't too short.  It worked out just fine, but I would have preferred for everyone to get to hear everyone.  Maybe next year.

Elinor and Bethany both had dates to the recital.  I guess young people are a little hard up for entertainment these days:)

The highlight of the evening-- besides the celebrating the hard work and preparation of lots of young people-- was packing 13 of us into our 12-seater mega-van and going to the Artic Circle drive through for ice cream.  There was so much laughter and holiday cheer and it was one of those magical family moments when all is right with the world.  So that was pretty great.