Speaking of Hidden Talents

I received a shocking phone call from Missy last week. It went like this -

Missy: "Jen, brace yourself, I have some bad news."
Jen: "Oh no, you've run out of yarn?!"
Missy: "No, that would be almost as bad, but, Dad is selling his beloved accordion on craigslist."

(Missy is a habitual craigslist shopper like her mother)

Jen: "What? No, not the accordion, we have so many lovely family memories of Dad serenading us with the accordion. Think of the Christmas's, the St. Patty's days, oh, they will never be the same."

Missy: "Yes, Dad is truly talented, our childhood was filled with music because of him."
Jen: "Does mom know?"
Missy: "She's too pre-occupied taking vocal lessons and tweeting."
Jen: "Vocal lessons? Well it's about time."
Missy: "Do what you can Jen."
Jen: "Don't worry I'm on it."

So I put staffer Mason on it. He is our techno guru (the only staffer besides me that can use e-mail) and he did some investigative work.

Turns out Howard is just upgrading and the vocal lessons Janna is taking are all part of big surprise.

Howard and Janna are going to be performing for us soon!

Howard on accordion and Janna doing a vocal solo. They said if we want we can choose our favorite childhood song for them to sing. Missy has agreed to video tape it and post it to Youtube for me. What we need is your ............... song ideas! So post them. Janna has told me that she is going to be dedicating the performance to her new granddaughter "Miracle" (what a lovely name).

For those of you don't know, Miracle was born this morning at 2:30 am to a very thrilled Thera and a relieved Brad. What a blessing, Brad can still have children since his tragic church basketball accident.

For me I have great memories of Howard singing "Another One Rides the Bus" by grammy award winner Al Yankovic.


Congratulations Brad, Thera, Braden, Bradley, Christine and Miracle!!!!