The Worst Day of Noah's Life

was likely precipitated by the longest week in his life! Here are the things today that contributed to it being the worst day:

1. Octavia accidentally broke a Hallmark snow globe that has been with us since he can remember.
2. The only big event of the day was Quaker meeting family Christmas celebration and the attendant bag of chocolate coins.
   
3. For dinner, we had to have a mixture of baked beans and ordinary haricot sans sugar & salt as there was only 1 tin of baked beans. And broccoli.

You do remember that Noah had 4 singing engagements (I think they call them gigs in the business), a dress rehearsal, a Christmas party, and a carol-singing party this week. He and Octavia also visited Santa. Finally, last night was the long-awaited, much-anticipated CHARLIE CHAPLIN NIGHT with the Ulster Orchestra. If you take a listen to the bootleg audio in the next blog post, you'll get a great sense of the night. It was everything we'd hoped--Aodh slept right through, Octavia and Noah were enthralled. Noah looked set to expire from laughing several times. There was only 1 drawback: the concert/film began at 7.45 pm which means that Noah and Octavia didn't slip into their wee beds until 10.22. Ah, now we see how the let-down of having realised the Chaplin adventure, a late night, and the worst day ever might be connected.

As a follow up to the Sing Out post I must tell you that the show was great, according to Noah, but paled in comparison to the adventure of a late-night trip to the Christmas Market with Christine and Paula where they bought him doughnuts and sweets. If you can imagine two wild aunties with a reckless disregard for the whole foods diet and a healthy appetite for fun, you'll have a good picture of Noah and his 'audience'.