June 8, 2011 3:49 p.m.

After staying home a lot this week. this coming Friday is definitely going to be music day here. 

Chips won a scholarship!   A local music organization had scholarship money for local music students to attend summer music camp.  Chips and Sweet Girl each filled out the applications, pretty much all by themselves, with little assistance from me, and mailed them out.  Well, on Saturday, we were notified that Chips would receive all the money needed for tuition to a local music camp at a major city near us.  So, at the end of June, both our children will be attending this music camp.  They are really looking forward to it.

Also, this coming Friday evening is the end of year honors recital for our local Suzuki school.  Sweet Girl will be playing Bach’s Gavotte in D major, from Suzuki Book 3.  Chips will be playing Tchaikovsky’s Song Without Words, which only took him about two weeks to learn, and ventures into a different form and style of music from which he has been accustomed to playing.  Anyway, assuming all goes well, I will be recording this performance on video.

We were also supposed to be attending a violin Master Class at noon on Friday, taught by a local violin master.  However, at the last minute, the class had to be cancelled when it was learned that he suddenly departed on Monday for Israel so that his wife could swim float in the Dead Sea – therapy for arthritic joints, I am assuming.  You can’t swim in the Dead Sea, you can only float.  Apparently, it is renowned for its therapeutic healing powers. 

Well, anyway, no Master Class on Friday.  When Friday passes, then it will really be summertime here.  Although homeschool lessons will continue as normal through the summer, all the other scheduled events have ceased for awhile, especially since this is also the last week of school for most public schools in this part of the country.  When does your “summer” begin?