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My friend Drew has been trying to compress this video enough to post on the blog. He finally got it, thought I look a little compressed as well (it feels somewhat squashed). I hope you like it; feel free to pass it along, but include the disclaimer below.

What is going on in this video?! I am making bread in the kitchen (this is before I had learned to put Pam on my hands so you can tell the dough is pretty sticky) while the kids have the music on. It’s Abba, actually. I’m singing along in as obnoxious a voice as possible, making fun of the lyrics as I go.

The noise in the background is the wheat grinder, making wheat flour for next week’s batch of bread. The sound is in mono. The video is pretty shaky since Emma’s holding the camera in her hands (she actually drops it at one point). She’s sitting on the stairs behind the kitchen, trying to keep hidden behind the wall.

I am actually a classically trained singer. I have sung tenor for years as a solo performer, in small ensembles, and in choirs. I have individual voice and operatic training, and have soloed for oratoria and other classical works for audiences of hundreds and even thousands of people. But it’s fun to pretend otherwise at home. Nobody noticed except for Emma (and Jess, who told her to go grab the camera).