I could say I love singing with my family, and that would be completely true. With both my sisters and their husbands in town this weekend, we're getting together to sing in my ward. With the 6 original Casdorphs plus two brothers-in-law, we have a perfect double quartet. Since getting everyone together is so rare, we decided to do a quick recording. I'm not going to vouch for the recording quality or balance since it was just done with a small recording box with an internal mic. But sitting in the middle of the group playing and singing soprano, I got to hear the voices all around me, and it was the best seat in the house.
But that's not why I love my family.
Midway through our hour long rehearsal session, my dad stopped us and said, "I'm sorry. It's just... this verse would sound so great with a Cockney accent. I just can't stop myself from doing it." Curious, I took the bait and asked him to demonstrate. My mom rolled her eyes at me as if to say, "Really, Andrea... you are encouraging this?" And so I took it one step further and asked if we could try it just for fun. Michelle really enjoyed it, too, so after we recorded the serious version, I just had to share the middle of the song, My Fair Lady style.
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This was not a hard read, but it was a good read. A story of determination, blessings, and a little bit of personal controversy, it was one of those books that you feel better for having read.
There were moments I would have l...
Passages
"So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!" -- EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE
"This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind." -- UNBROKEN
"Louie and Phil's optimism, and Mac's hopelessness, were becoming self-fulfilling." -- UNBROKEN
"It remains a mystery why these three young men, veterans of the same training and the same crash, differed so radically in their perceptions of their plight. Maybe the difference was biological; some men may be wired for optimism, others for doubt. Perhaps the men's histories had given them opposing convictions about their capacity to overcome adversity." -- UNBROKEN
About Andrea
Andrea is:
- The proud mother of three adorable boys
- One half of a great partnership with David Sullivan
- A 5th grade teacher
- A singer/dancer/actress whenever she finds the time
- A book lover who tries to balance reading and family
- A bit of a "hippie," at least when it comes to zero waste
- Politically undecided because she can always see the logic (or lack of it) behind both arguments
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