Why We Moved to Princeton

 

Jeff and Susan live ten minutes away from our apartment.  Laura and Michael and their family live about an hour away.  Dan and Alexandra are about 2 1/2 hours north of us.  This means that holiday get-togethers are possible without a 700 mile trip east on I-80.  But it also means that we can participate in other family events.

In the last month or so we have gone to Katie's Princeton University Ballet show.  We have seen Susan's photos in a photography exhibit.  And last night we went to the Harriton High School Winter Concert in which Jasper sang in the large concert choir, the select and auditioned Vocal Ensemble and the acapella group Pitch Please.  When the large choir opened with "Festival Gloria" -a gloria in excelsis deo--I just closed my eyes and let the beautiful sound enter my soul.  

I'm so glad we can support our grandchildren in their musical endeavors.  Adding to these events, we livestreamed Michael's George Washington Jazz Orchestra Holiday Concert and Lessons and Carols from Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church--in which Laura and Jasper sang and Jasper read a lesson.  It was good to be able to do those events from home because traffic along the eastern corridor is often very heavy--as it was last night. We were home safely by 10 pm.