Hello.

Yesterday my mom took me to my piano lesson. *sigh* I have MEMORIZE this 5 page Beethoven song for the recital. I also am working on Lion and You Never Know (is that the one we'll do?) for the talent show. I'm hoping to have Lion memorized. Then my sister signed me up for a solo as well, for which I'll do Hundred by the Fray. I also have to play that song for a performance class. At least I have a really good excuse to practice.

I can't tell you how happy I am about my band. After several months of doing nothing with myself, I finally have something. I go to band practice and everyone's so happy and we open with prayer... It's a really nice feeling. We have Jake playing for us now, which is a little strange because I year ago I would have never in a million years thought that he'd be playing with us. I never thought I would let him. lol I feel a lot different than I did a few weeks ago. I was getting no where, my older sister leaving me every day for school. It's not a great feeling when I watch her ride drive off to school nearly every morning. It seems like the more she's gone, the farther away she seems, even when she is at home (do you get what I mean?).

There was one night, when a lot of things were happening, i was really stressed, and I went out and sat down at the piano that's on our porch. As I played, it got dark outside, but even thought I could hardly see the keys, I played better than I've EVER played before. I just started playing, making it up the whole time; going up and down the piano. (Hey Ashes, you know that song that I wrote? That was SMALL PART of what I made up that night. I took that little part, and never forgot it.)

Thanks to those who read!

Jo