This Is The Year

Last month we had a special night in our family. It was a music recital that our 2 oldest children performed in. It was Cowgirl's very first piano recital. She had just started lessons the month before the recital. Her teacher is the same teacher that Bookworm has been taking violin lessons from for the past six years. During the weeks before the recital she (our music teacher) had been mentioning that she felt it would be good for Bookworm to move on to a more professional violin teacher. She referred us to someone she felt would be good for him, and we knew that this would likely be his last recital under this teacher. So it was a special night. A welcome for Cowgirl and a farewell for Bookworm. We're so proud of both of them. Cowgirl had only had about 4-5 lessons, and is learning so quickly, and is so dedicated to practicing. Sometimes so much that I kinda wanna take an axe to the piano! But I hope she stays this excited about developing her talent. Bookworm has actually st...

I seriously cannot believe I have not blogged in over 2 weeks. Can you? What? You can? You think I am a total, loser-ish, poor pathetic excuse for a blogger? Okay. I admit it...I suck. How has everybody been? I have been up to my ears in the school. We had a promising director candidate that we were really excited about, but in the end we weren't able to make it work out for him and his family...just a really bad time to try to sell your house and move to a new state. We were so close. I will keep ya posted on the developments with that. I also have been sitting in with our interim director and conducting interviews with perspective new hires. We have hired some really strong new people for the school and I couldn't be more pleased with the candidates we have met. Also board meetings, budget meetings, and curricular meetings have kept me feeling like a working mom who's not getting paid! But enough about that, I just needed to make my case for why I've been su...