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Sunday, April 29, 2007

Homeschool Music

After about 15 years I pulled out my old clarinet. I played clarinet from 5th grade all the way through high school. It was one of the best memories I have about my public school years. I will never forget my band friends, football games spent freezing in the stadium, marching festivals and concerts.

You can imagine that after being stored for so long it was in need of some help. I brought it in to a music store in Alexandria where they gave it a good cleaning and changed the corks and padding. It is in excellent shape now.

It seems that after 15 years I had forgotten alot. I took out my old music books and after a few minutes most of it came back to me.

The reason I got my clarinet fixed is so I can teach my children how to play. I hope they will have a love for music. Tanek took to it right away and learned several notes in one sitting. Kaia is having a little more trouble because her fingers are so small but as she gets older it will become much easier.

I wish we had a bigger homeschool group in our area so we could start our own homeschool band. Maybe someday...

The great thing about homeschooling is they can choose things they are interested in and they have plenty of time to explore and enjoy their learning. Now I just need to get a flute.

Monday, April 02, 2007

It's Monday!

It's been one busy day but not nearly as busy as tomorrow. Today I had to make a cake for tomorrows cubscout Blue and Gold Banquet. Unfortunately I didn't have all the ingredients for the icing but I needed to go to town anyway. I made a quick run into Bunkie and got the ingredients I needed plus a gift for a birthday party tomorrow.

Tomorrow will be a very busy but hopefully fun day. We are going to a birthday party for one of the kids in our homeschool group. The kids are really excited because there will be a jump castle plus water balloon games at the party. Let's hope the rain will stay away.

Tomorrow evening we have our cubscout Blue and Gold Banquet. I think I have everything together. I just need to get the slideshow I made of the pack downloaded onto disk.

Well, I guess we will see how tomorrow goes!