Whoa... Time is Flying By

Over a month without posting... I'm falling off of this thing. I guess that was bound to happen as I got busier. The December concerts, and then the holidays... Now that it's January, you'd think things would be settled down for a bit, right? Oh, no. Not so.

From the first day back in 2010 to my next performances, just under 5 weeks.

Nobody cares about that stuff. *shrug*

We had a great time over the holidays with our girls, making memories, starting new traditions, hanging out with extended family... It was fun. And it went by so fast. We all got just a little bit too accustomed to sleeping in, and then it was time to be up at 6 AM all over again.

What hit me in the week between Christmas and New Year's was that I kind of missed work. I like my family, and I like being able to relax, but I missed making music, and looked forward to the week after New Year's when we'd be going back to "normal".

I would like to update my readers on how things went at the December concerts. The concert for the giant choir school was awesome. We even had a CD made of the performance, and my choir sounded great. The dynamic contrast could have been better, but that's almost always true, especially for young choirs. At the tiny choir school, I had willing students sing solos, and the whole choir sang four things together. It was a tremendous success. It surprised me who all wanted to do solos. It was a nice change of pace to have the format so different from the last choir concert we did in October. I did get a little in trouble for scheduling that concert the night before finals started, but it was the only date available on the calendar, so they let me keep it.

That was also my mother's birthday. On her birthday, she came over and helped me set up for the concert, played for almost all the solos, and the choir songs, and then helped me tear down the decorations and put away all the chairs. She's amazing. I have the best mom in the world. No offense to any other moms out there. She the best one for me, and that's not debatable!

So here we are, just finished with the first two weeks of school in 2010, plugging away. Next post may be Spring Break! I'll try to do better than that, but I can't promise anything!