Cleaning and Christmas

This week Sydney and I took a trip to the homestead minus Jess (he had to work). My Meme had asked me to teach a class on homemade cleaning supplies for RS and my mother had volunteered my sisters and I to sing for the community's Christmas in July celebration. The class went really well. The ladies all laughed when I offered them a drink of the homemade disinfectant (it really is safe to drink, but the flavor's awful). And they were really impressed at what vinegar can replace. I think the favorite though was the homemade liquid soap. They all had to use it!
As far as the singing goes, it was fun but frustrating. I think that the next time we get volunteered to sing again we'd better have more say so in what kind of music we get to sing. We were told (by Mom) it had to be gospel music, and that there were several churches participating (all of which were to sing gospel music). Me thinks the mother told us what SHE wanted us to sing and omitted other details. Turns out there were NO other churches participating and the other singers were singing Broadway hits or something along those lines. We weren't even listed as a Church singing group in either the paper or the fliers. We SO could have sounded better with Broadway songs or Oldies or almost anything else! Especially since we'd have an advantage being the only non-solo singers. Plus we always get talked into singing the same songs over and over again. It get frustrating since we have such a wide range in what we can sing. Oh well....next time (cause there will be a next time, we're locally famous and get volunteered a lot) We're going to push for what we want to sing. OK enough venting......