1. The video of the musical you were going to show the children on kick-off night arrived just in the knick of time, but when you loaded it on the computer, it was in the wrong format to view on your system. So, you sang and pantomimed the entire story line of the musical by yourself!

2. You climbed all over the stage, platform, or auditorium decorating for the musical and did not fall off the ladder once!

3. You did not lose your cool when the leading role had their championship soccer game during dress rehearsal and they were an hour late, the t-shirts for the performance were 2 sizes too small, the church was locked when you got there for dress rehearsal and they had changed the lock and your key didn't fit, one child threw up...all over you, and the sound guy forgot to show up.

4. Your computer lost the template for the choir news letter and you re-created a new one in 10 minutes...and it was better than the one you spent 4 hours creating the first time..

5. Your laptop screen won't come up and all the lesson plans for this month are on that computer only, but...you have them saved on a memory stick!

6. You sent e-mails to all your choir children only to realize that your husband received their choir updates and the children received your love letter to him. At least, now the children know husbands and wives still love each other!

Congratulations! You survived!

* There is a Basketball stuck in the ceiling tiles.
* There is GAK on the piano bench.
* The lost and found in your room looks like a Goodwill drop off point.
* You find "Mark McGuire Rules" written on your chalk board.
* You find darts sticking in your music posters.
* There are craft sticks and glue stuck in the piano keys.
* You find a frog in your rhythm instrument box.
* Your room smells like a Jr. High boys’ locker room.
* You find that your wood blocks have been turned into RA Derby race cars.
*The children’s music editor’s picture in all your choir books has had a goatee drawn on it.

Alice’s Camel

Our three year-old choir director had taught the children the little song about Alice’s camel. It was my three year-old son’s favorite fun song. He sang it up and down the grocery store aisle, in the corridors of the malls, and in the halls of church. Much to my chagrin, he could not pronounce his "L"s, so the song was loudly proclaimed everywhere we went as " ‘a-ssses’ camel had five humps".

* you spend hours trying to play the other side of your CD
* you think pedagogy has some reference to foot washing
* you threw out half the M and M’s for the music and mission activity because you thought they were "W"s
* you borrowed the pastor’s keys to the resource room because you couldn’t find yours and then drove home with his and he was stranded at church!
* you spend hours tuning the autoharp only to find you tuned it to the wrong note
* you write on the erasable board with a permanent marker and what you wrote was your name
* you misspelled your own name on the erasable board in permanent marker
* you take a whole roll of pictures of your children’s musical and there was no film in your camera
* you lead a conference in a fun song to break the ice and fall off the stage and break your……(well, my pride to say the least!)
* you outline your lips and forget to fill them in with lipstick
* you rush to change into the musical t-shirt prior to the service and realize when you get on stage that it is on backwards!