graciemobile

Yes, I started again. And boy was it nice to be back.

I rode Buddy, Mr. Steady and Dependable. But oddly he acted much like Chris usually does this time.

At first he was the same, slow, steady, kind of just plodding along. But then when my friend’s horse started trotting up ahead of us, Buddy woke up! He started trotting really fast to catch up, a nice change really.

I worked mostly on trotting, walking, and relaxing. I feel like I did much better at relaxing.

Buddy also wanted to leave, so he tried to hurry to the gate, and I couldn’t stop him. Miss Emma had to stop him, then she showed me how to do it. I have to lean back and pull the reins. I had pulled the reins at another lesson, and Miss Emma told me not to do that. The difference is that you are supposed to lean your body back, and when you do, you pull on the reins. Then everything on your body says to the horse, “STOP!”

We are going to get to ride a new horse. His name is Pete. Such a boring and plain name for such a beautiful animal. He is a bay color, but he has a black and bay colored mane. Quite magnificent.

Wow, today was the first day of orchestra.

We were in our old classes today, but we did auditioning. I had been anticipating, with not much excitement, playing in front of a teacher by myself. I had a lovely surprise when I found out that we were doing a group audition. Meaning, that our group would play, and the teachers would walk around and listen to us, and write things down.

I was shooting for Bach, the next class up, and the class where all of my friends were. Others were auditioning to enter the class that I was hopefully leaving.

I had a few problems with the song that I had practiced. To make a long story short, I had lost one of the most important books that I needed, had borrowed a different one, and then practiced a completely different song from the one that we were using. It wasn’t my fault, my books were messed up, so the teachers gave me extra grace to mess up.

We did site reading, which went really well, and played the D major and G major scales over again and again. Ugh! My arms are tired.

Then we went up to theory to play musical jeopardy, ugh! I HATE that game! It has this uncanny ability to make you look completely stupid and illiterate in music. Something that I am not, though I am not the best, but jeopardy brings out the worst in some people.

We had our choir a 1/2 hour later than usual, so I had a chance to eat a sandwich, a good thing too, or I would have gotten a low blood sugar headache later on.

Miss Krista, our choir director, was hyper. She explained that she had had chocolate covered espresso beans and coffee that morning and it hadn’t worn off. So she was all energetic during our practice, and we were all tired from classes.

We are doing the hymn sing again this year, if you don’t know what that is, just go to my blog post archives and click on the earliest one. We did it last year at a great big church, but this year we are doing it at the largest performing hall in our big town near here. The same place that we did the Amahl.

Well, anyway. Me and my friend had to track down a teacher in order to find out if we had made it. I made it to Bach! I am SO thrilled! And I am also moving up to Concert Choir, much more fun. Thank you Lord!

Ah well. Here we are, just about the end of summer.

Some have already started school, I haven’t yet, but I will within the next 2 weeks. Orchestra starts next Friday, YIKES! And that means I have to audition, faint. I don’t like auditioning to put it plainly.

But other than that and a few other difficulties, like theory class, and some of the cliquey girls that get on your nerves, I LOVE orchestra. I love playing the violin, and I love choir. Plus I get to see friends, and a lot of other neat things. Oh yeah, and the concerts! WOOPEE!

Some may feel sad at summer’s end. I might be in the slightest way, but mostly I am looking forward to autumn. I don’t like the heat, neither do the rest of my family. In fact, if it weren’t for the fact that all of our friends and family, and daddy’s job was here, we would move north somewhere.

I am looking forward to starting my pumpkin pie season again. Mama and Daddy especially love my pumpkin pie. And with homemade crust from great-grandma’s cookbook, it is pretty good if I do say so myself.

I am attempting to crochet a blanket. To be honest, that is like the idea of going around the world in 80 days. Next to impossible is how it feels! Just row after row, after row, and so forth. I was hoping to have it done before this winter, so I started in the summer. Not going to happen my friend.

I get to start riding lessons again week after next. I am so thrilled! I have missed the friendly ride up with my friends, my horse Chris, the feel of the tack, and riding. I have been dreaming frequently about them. In fact, I just had a dream about them last night! And that is like the 4th or 5th dream.

I am looking forward to the new challenges this year. This is my last year of middle school, then I become a freshmen in high school. I am SO looking forward to the day when I am done with school.

I am looking forward to a lot of things obviously.  But I am also looking back on stuff. Such as truths that I have learned through the Bible and through the Lord teaching me. I feel like He has given me opportunities to share things that I have learned, and give encouragement to some people lately. I feel like He has guided my tongue, and that is something that I am so grateful for. I haven’t always been the best at not speaking to much, judging to much, being to critical. But I feel like I am learning a ton!

Our air is still not fixed. Oh well. Mama says we probably won’t have any for the rest of the year.

Oh boy, don’t you ever wish you could get rich over night? I tell you what we would do. We would pay off all of our debt, buy a camper, get season passes to Silver Dollar City, and travel up north. The last time we went on family vacation was when I was 3! So the younger kids still don’t know what that feels like.

Well, so long. Adios. Bon Voyage. Bye bye summer! HELLO AUTUMN, coming soon, to theaters. ;p

Hi gals! Yes, this is still graciemobile. You didn’t type that in and then end up at some creep’s site. I have had the old theme for almost a year, so for my early birthday present, my older brother built a new one.

Pink and brown are one of my best, as Gentie would say, color schemes. And I think that this new site is just darlin’.

There are a few things that have changed, it’s been made simpler, but the overall stuff is still there.

I haven’t changed, your posts haven’t changed, and it will all be about the same. This is for those of you who may feel a little upset at change, I usually like change, so I am not to bothered.

And the new mobile, for graciemobile has not yet been added. But it will be soon, so just bear with me.

Thanks so much, I love you all. Have a great pink and brown day!

Hello readers,

Grace and I, (more I) have been making some changes to the website over the last couple of days. We’re trying to make the site easier to navigate, look better, and be an overall better experience for you, the reader. Here are some of the things we changed:

• The theme was updated.
• The categories have been re-organized and re-named.
• Many tags were deleted.
• If a reader has a previously approved comment, any future comments will be, by default, approved.
• The background screens page was removed.
• The polls have been re-done using a different plugin. We have not updated the old polls, so those are now non-existent.
• You may now rate posts (be nice.)
• We are removing the Flash gallery. Only a few posts have this and they are very old, so it shouldn’t be a problem.

If you find any bugs on the site or something just doesn’t seem right, shoot me an email to let me know. Send it to:

galen [at] galengidman [dot] com

Cheers!