• Note: Cindy Hval wrote this five years ago for the SR Voices:

I wish I could avoid the second week of December. I should start mentally preparing myself after Thanksgiving, but I don’t. Like a root canal or gynecological appointment, I prefer not to think about it until I absolutely have to. Sometime during that week, Derek and I will have to attend at least one school Christmas concert. I guess we’re bad parents. We loathe school concerts. It wasn’t always this way. When our eldest child was 4, we attended our first holiday concert at his preschool. It was delightful. The children were adorable, but none as precious as our own darling boy. That was 11 years ago. We’d probably still be enjoying holiday concerts except we’ve added three more sons since that first experience. Consequently, we’ve attended about 30 school concerts. We’ve endured recorder recitals, choir competitions and spring solo extravaganzas, but the bane of our existence remains the Christmas concert/Cindy Hval, SR. More here.

Question: Do you enjoy Christmas school concerts? Or find them unbearable?