January 20, 2009

• Finally Getting a Chance to Breathe

  Last week was a pretty fantastic week.

  Firstly, we spent Monday and Tuesday (as well as Friday) in San Diego preparing for a kids choir show–but not just any kids choir show–Word Music actually came out from Nashville to video tape our kids putting on Celeste Clydesdale’s newest musical “G.P.S.”. This is a big deal for us because we absolutely adore the Clydesdale’s (husband is David T.) and the stuff that they do. Celeste writes incredible, fresh, fun, and clever kids musicals and David T. writes stuff for adult choir and orchestra. We use their stuff ALL THE TIME, so to be asked to do a project like this was a HUGE honor. Christy and her team of leaders worked very hard to prepare the kids for this event, even to the point of learning two musicals at once during the Christmas season. It was an UNDERTAKING, to say the least.

  And they ROCKED it.

  Word Music couldn’t have been more pleased. Celeste said we were the best kids choir she has ever heard. The kids knocked it out of the park.

  It was so fulfilling and fun. What an experience!

  We are probably going to be joining forces with them again in the future…which is just a dream-come-true for Christy and I. It is so amazing to work with true aritsts like that…

  Secondly, my BFF asked me to write string parts for his live album (recording this weekend in Atlanta, GA), so I worked my tooshie off getting those to him before we had to go back down to San Diego for the GPS taping. I also finished another project for the Male Chorale at CBU this week.

  It has been busy!

  But you know what?

  It has been AWESOME.

  I wouldn’t trade the insanity of our schedule for anything. I mean, it IS crazy, but so worth it. We were slated to be in San Diego on last Friday-Tuesday, but I KNEW I needed to get work done all day Tuesday in my studio (my church office does not have the proper equipment/hardware/software anymore) because of the upcoming projects, so I took Nathaniel with me on Monday night after the kids choir rehearsal and DROVE HOME. I worked until about 2AM, slept until 6AM, got up, worked some more, took Nathaniel to school, worked until 230PM, picked N up from school and drove back down to SD to be there for the dress rehearsal and to pick up Christy and Noah. As troublesome as the driving is, it is STILL worth it.
  Am I crazy?

  Maybe so…but I know how to do what it takes to get a job done…and sometimes it just takes that level of commitment to succeed.

  I look back at the last year and I just marvel at what has transpired in my life and the lives of my little family. We are so blessed.

  I am officially back ON the grid…

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