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blah is about how I feel right now. I can't kick this crazy cough and so I know I won't be able to get to sleep just yet so I may as well do something...like blog. But even though I can't sleep, I AM tired so these random thoughts are in no particular order...just a bunch of blah blah blah blah blah

We had a pretty good day today despite the cough. We went to CBS this morning and had our monthly bruncheon! You know if food is involved, I'm going to be there! And it was yummy. But also had a good time of sharing and prayer and that's what we're SUPPOSED to be there for!

Then we came home to catch up on some housework and schoolwork and I gave Brooke a piano lesson. She hasn't had one in a long time because usually, where piano is concerned, my teaching style and her learning style do not jive and so I've been wanting to find her another teacher. However, finances dictate that this is not a good time so I guess we'll both have to suck it up and deal with it if she is to stick with it and she loves it so I will give it my best shot. I'm not altogether sure how much further I can take her anyway though. I need to be practicing myself. I took lessons for 5 years when I was a kid but then quit to do other things (you know my adhd where activities are concerned--I want to do it all!) and then after getting married and not having a piano to practice on for years...well, I've sort of lost my touch. I can do the beginning to intermediate but she has a great ear and picks up on things rather quickly so I'm not sure how much longer I'll be able to be her piano teacher. And she is just like me when I was a kid. I played by ear a lot, too and it drove my piano teacher NUTS. She wanted me to learn theory and how to read music and I just wanted to listen to something and then pick it out on the piano! Brooke is EXACTLY the same way. I'm trying to get theory across to her and she just wants me to show her how it goes and then she'll practice it nonstop until it's perfect. *sigh*

Anyhoo, my other musical child desperately needs to find a violin teacher because I can't help her with that at all. I can read her music and I can hold the thing and I can even tune it (except for the other day when I popped a string!) but after that... forget it. She really loved her teacher from last year but she is about to have a baby and the day just didn't fit our schedule this year. I also didn't feel like she was progressing like she should for whatever reason. The first year when she took lessons from the Alabama School of Fine Arts through Clay, she seemed to fly through the book. These last two years...not so much.

Dylan is also pretty musical and has been playing the drums some in the church's Youth Praise band. But there are so many drummers at our church already he doesn't get as much of a chance to play as he probably would like.

I've been following my friend, Laine's trip in China to get her new daughter Candace and folks, I have to tell ya--God is amazing!!! I so wish you could stand over my shoulder (sorry her site is private) and read what God is doing! You could not deny Him if you could. I can just feel everything through cyberspace it's so weird and I'm just overwhelmed with emotion. I can't wait for them to get back!

Tomorrow is a typical Thursday for us and Friday a typical Friday. We're supposed to help my sister move on Saturday and then Saturday night it's the Alabama/Tennessee game!!! ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!