Millennial Choir & Orchestras

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Four weeks ago Lisa and I drove to Arizona to watch Evan compete in the America’s cup.
Three weeks ago I flew to Arizona for the iTrade Show.
Two weeks ago Lisa and I drove to Arizona to be with the kids for Thanksgiving.
Last week Lisa flew to Arizona to watch Kira play in the Millenial Choir & Orchestra Christmas performance. I was sad that I couldn’t go but I have people in a factory waiting on me to send them CAD files of the smoker I’ve been developing.

In this picture you can see Kira standing with her Orchestra buddies. Mom and Ben took many pictures but I picked this one because Kira is doing her “broken neck” pose. It is something she has done as long as she could pose for pictures. It bugs her that she does this, but I love it and I think it is cute.

Mom flew out early (we got up at 4:15) and spend the day with the Palmers and then they all headed to the concert. Saturday morning Mom had breakfast with Bens family and I’m not really sure what she did the rest of the day. Sunday she went to church with Kira’s family and then she came home to me.

Mom had two very cool experiences last week. For the last few weeks she has been very focused on finishing up Christmas Stockings for Bens older girls. Since M is the only one technically living with them, she was only going to make her a stocking but when she thought about it she realized that Z is there every weekend and that wouldn’t be cool for M to have a stocking and not her, so she was going to make two stockings. We have only met their younger sister L a couple of times so we don’t know her well but she is at Ben’s house a lot, so in the end Lisa made three stocking for the three sisters.

She focused on those stockings ignoring everyone and everything else for a few weeks and really wanted to have them done to take to Arizona with us for Thanksgiving. She made it happen. Ben and his family were gone for that weekend but we drove over to his house and left them where Sharely asked us to.

Last week on the Friday Lisa arrived in Arizona, Z was at the house and was going through a tough time. She was complaining to Sharley about how she didn’t belong anywhere, everybody at the home hates her, she has no friends and she doesn’t know why she’s even alive because nobody wants her. She said that Ben and Sharley say they love her but she doesn’t know why and then she said, “I don’t even have a Christmas stocking”.

Sharley then told her to go look under the tree and she would find a gift wrapped with her name on it. Go get it and open it. The timing couldn’t have been better.

Just before Lisa left for Arizona last week she was going through her calendar for some reason, and noticed that Z birthday was coming up. Lisa just happened to have a great gift for her and she wrapped it up the day before we left. Lisa had breakfast with Ben’s family on Saturday morning to celebrate Freddies birthday and when Freddie was done with his gifts Lisa said, Z, don’t you have a birthday coming up. She then gave her the gift that she had wrapped just before she left San Diego. Sometimes Lisa is very inspired and these two gifts for Z made a huge impact on her.

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The first sign of civilization in an ancient culture is a femur (thighbone) that has been broken and then healed. In the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.

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