{"id":123,"date":"2009-04-01T06:17:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T06:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/efcn-mx\/?p=123"},"modified":"2011-10-14T01:02:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T01:02:28","slug":"didnt-quite-sound-like-a-song-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/efcn-mx\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Didn&#8217;t Quite Sound Like A Song To Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a conversation between Ellen and Sarah.\u00a0 Leah would be part of this conversation but she is sleeping&#8230;probably having nightmares.<br \/>\n&#8212;-<br \/>\nEllen:\u00a0 So, first, we took all of the music bells, sticks, and shakers to the kids house.\u00a0 We waited in the living room for a while until I finally thought it might be a good idea to get some help and ask \u201cwhere are we supposed to be?\u201d &#8212; I believe what came out was \u201cDonde musica?\u201d\u00a0 Well&#8230;that didn&#8217;t go anywhere.\u00a0 We finally found out we were supposed to be in the ballet studio.\u00a0 We were given a set of keys, but none of them were worked.\u00a0 Not even the principal could find it out for several minutes.\u00a0 When we eventually figured it out, all the kids (30 3-6yr. olds) stormed through the room and went straight for the closet, which was full of things I&#8217;m sure they weren&#8217;t supposed to touch \u2013 a large stick\/pole thing, star wands, and hula hoops.\u00a0 Leah (the music leader) started to pass out shakers to the kids.\u00a0 They were supposed to shake them to the music, like she was doing, but instead they thought it would be fun to stick them down their shirts and throw them against the floor.\u00a0 We tried to take them away, but that also concluded in a game of tag.\u00a0 Since the shakers didn&#8217;t work, maybe some bells on sticks would do the trick to calm them down&#8230;um&#8230;yeah&#8230;no.\u00a0 The bells were made into swords, hammers, and body parts.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-123 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/efcn-mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/_mg_8052.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/efcn-mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/_mg_8052-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-126\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd 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src=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/efcn-mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/_mg_8072-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-128\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-128'>\n\t\t\t\tBedlam\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/efcn-mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/_mg_8084.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/efcn-mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/_mg_8084-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-129\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-129'>\n\t\t\t\tThis is NOT a hug\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Sarah:\u00a0 I willingly (ok, I might be lying) joined the mass chaos when Megan came running to get me while I was painting to say the girls needed help with translating. On my way to the dance room, I refreshed my memory with how to say drums in Spanish and thought I&#8217;d be good to go. I opened up the door to the dance room, and immediately saw Ellen with a look of complete horror and terror in her eyes. My first instinct was to slam the door and run away, but Ellen&#8217;s helpless look made me face the music.\u00a0 Leah told me to tell the kids to sit down in a circle and listen, but I thought it&#8217;d be best to first get the magic wands and big stick thing out of the boys&#8217; hands.\u00a0 After getting the sticks back, I simply looked around the room, took a deep breath, and uhhh&#8230;.tried to prevent complete mayhem. It didn&#8217;t work.\u00a0 My musical experience was not at all musical, and I&#8217;m just glad we made it out alive&#8230;although Kelly was missing a shoe for a while after.<br \/>\nReason #2 (on this trip) I don&#8217;t want boys.<br \/>\n&#8212;-<br \/>\nObviously this was a very stressful experience for us, but it was easy to see that the kids really enjoyed it \u2013 did we mention there was candy at the end?<\/p>\n<p>Honestly though, it&#8217;s been fun to see how much the kids enjoy our presence here at Emmanuel Ministries.<\/p>\n<p>More Musical Melodies with Ellen and Sarah tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a conversation between Ellen and Sarah.\u00a0 Leah would be part of this conversation but she is sleeping&#8230;probably having nightmares. &#8212;- Ellen:\u00a0 So, first, we took all of the music bells, sticks, and shakers to the kids house.\u00a0 We &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/efcn-mx\/?p=123\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/efcn-mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/efcn-mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/efcn-mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/efcn-mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/efcn-mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/efcn-mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/efcn-mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/efcn-mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/efcn-mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/efcn-mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}