I’m not producing new music arrangements as often as I was a couple years ago. It takes me WAY longer to produce a new video course. And we don’t get to do nearly as many live request sessions. I miss those, honestly, and LOVE when we get to do them. But I’m loving this season too. I used to measure my productivity based on how many work projects I could get done, checking them off, and moving to the next. I thought a lot about work/home “balance” and tried to figure out the best work flow to ma

As a culture, we are so addicted to “busyness”— it’s almost a badge of honor to rehearse our lengthy to-do lists of responsibilities and appointments when someone says, “How are you doing?” “I’m good! SO busy these days! We’ve got [fill-in-the-blank all the things]…” But hear me out…I’ve been thinking about something… 😅 I don’t think we were meant to move at such a fast pace all the time without building some margin in our lives for an intentionally slower pace at times. Scripture tells us ther

So proud of our sweet girl today! She started violin lessons a couple months ago and today was her first recital. She’s still learning her rhythms on open strings, so we aren’t officially on an actual song yet. :-) I LOVE the Suzuki method— it focuses so much on good habits at the beginning- bow hold, resting position, violin position, etc… as well as a lot of listening to the recordings of the songs she will be learning. We love her teacher— she’s doing a marvelous job with Raylen. So excited t