• Oct. 5, 2006
*Sigh*
My Piano students just left, it went really well today! I think having them practice a little longer really payed off. They are finally starting to 'get' the 'Alphabet-keyboard-written notes' correlation. I had an old magnet board from Music for Young Children (MYC) which had a big grand staff on one side and a keyboard (I think about one and a half octaves) on the other side. I put fun little stickers on the little black magnets (They named them; there's Champ, and Flappy, and Bouncy, and Pointer, etc. lol, I love it when kids come up with stuff like that! 
) and then come up with words that we can make on the keyboard side with the magnets (bed, egde, feed, etc.) and then we play it on the piano. Then I have them make the word on the treble clef and play it, and on the bass clef and play it. I sent them home with the board and they are going to figure out how to write on it and play EDGE. :-) Much fun.
But I feel squishy. I still basically have two hours of practicing to do. An hour of piano, and an hour of flute. Well, I did 6 mins of piano before my students came, but that barely counts. Blechy. *Sigh* I did finish the outline for my John Wycliffe Essay though! Yesss!
I hope something happens with this whole downsizing thing. It's getting tiresome looking at the same houses online over and over and over again. Nothing new ever seems to come up. I guess it does though. Anyway, I'm trying not to think much about it. I just pray about it and wait. 
Enough said for now. I've gotten to the point where I don't care if no one ever reads this. It's just a place to think. Thankyou blogness!!
Sheila
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• May. 28, 2006
Feeling lonely...
I feel alone. A little shivering lamb. But God is there for me, and I know that Jesus loves his little lambs, and holds me close and warms me. I just want to walk close to him, though sometimes I feel I can't. I want to learn to put aside things that bother me, someone playing the piano absolutley awfully at church, 'friends' never trying to get together. I need to look on the bright side, at God's love and mercy, the wonderfull family he's surrounded me with, and I need to surrender even these things in my life to Christ. Thanks for listening to me rant,
Lina
