Thinking Outloud

My  daughter  is really starting to enjoy her violin lessons.  They have now begun working on the fun stuff like playing songs so she is really starting to get into it.  Getting her to practice at home is still requiring a lot of patience on my part, but things are starting to  improve.

In the month of April, she has three different violin events coming up and she has one more performance event in June.  She has her fiddle-a-thon, a competition and the spring extravaganza in April and then has a retirement party for a teacher to prepare for in June.  With all these concerts and events coming up in the near future it gives her a purpose to practice hard.   And now that she it totally caught up with her class (she missed a lot of time before Christmas due to a serious illness) and can play everything they can, she is having the time of her life.  So much in fact that she has decided to stick with it for many more years to come.

I can’t be more proud of her than I am right now and I am really looking forward to seeing all her performances.

My daughter who is 9 has been bugging me for a couple of years now to enroll her in some piano lessons. I have been seriously thinking about it and have been checking into different places to find out any information I can regarding learning how to play the piano. This is why I was really happy to have found this site over at playpiano.com. This site will send you out a free newsletter about Piano lessons & piano chords. They send the email newsletter every five days or so. Also if you are interested, they also sell full blown piano courses on DVD that are targeted for adults. So, because my daughter has shown a major interest in learning how to play the piano, I am definitely signing up for this newsletter. Maybe you would like to as well. It is free.

Last night we attended our daughter’s first violin concert.  I have to say it was a huge success.  The school gym was packed full of family members and friends.  There were so many people there that you couldn’t even find standing room.  You could tell that the children had really practiced very hard and their playing of the instruments reflected this quite nicely.  I was very proud of my daughter and I could tell that she was very proud as well.

Not only was it a violin concert, but it was also the choir’s concert as well.  And yes, they did an amazing job as well.  You could really tell that they were having a wonderful time on stage.  I am so happy that this was a positive experience for my daughter and I can’t wait to see her future performances.

After a week of waiting and my daughter biting her nails, the phone call that she has been patiently waiting for finally arrived last night.  The phone call we were waiting for was concerning whether or not she was one of the 20 students picked to participate in the grade 4 violin club.  I am happy to report that she was accepted.  So her dream that she has had for the past two years is going to come true!  She gets to learn to play the violin!  She was so excited and happy when I told her about the phone call and is extremely anxious to get started.  She knows she was very lucky to be picked as there were only 20 spots available and there was 32 kids that wanted to take it.  I know she will do great at it and I only hope that this experience is everything that she hoped it would be.