I got the "Back to Work After Vacation Monday Blues"......

There's a country song in there somewhere.....and Tim Mcgraw is singing it........


I have to say that last week was very productive having the week off with the children.....We had a really great time New Year's Eve...Although I think Hayley and I ate too much shrimp (is that even possible???) I spent Sunday, Monday and Teusday mega cleaning...dusting...vacumning...doing up all the laundry and going thru all the crap we had accumulated the year before...I felt very good taking care of all that...no more dust bunnies....no more clutter!

Suffice to say I now have enough stuff to get rid of for a garage sale...We tried for one last Saturday but it didn't go very well...This Saturday we are going to the Drive-In where for $20 bucks you can have a spot and sell your stuff there...I hope it goes okay as hundreds of people flock there on the weekends for it...The Kids also have stuff they want to sell...I hope they sell everything!!! hahahaha....

Other than that...I finally started the boys on Guitar lessons...Their Mom had bought them each one of those "First Act" guitar's for Christmas...They are perfect for first guitars for Kids their ages and size...Monday found us at Marathon Music to pick up a pitch pipe and tuning of the guitars...I can keep them in tune afterwards and I upgraded the pitch pipe for an electronic tuner just this past weekend as I found out they were on sale! So finally we were all set for me to teach them! Now I will admit that I am rusty on a "Git-Fiddle" but I was amazed at how much came back to me while giving the boys thier lessons....I was even more amazed at how well Wesley did....We went over everything and he picked it up no problem at all! I was really impressed at his memory skills at memorizing the stanza's...I know it's going to get harder on down the road but he seems pretty determined to learn...I hope so...but I had also told the boys they could quit at any time....I was not about to force them to learn...so for now Wesley is enjoying it....I really hope he keeps up! Glen on the other hand....Well....er....Glen makes a really beautiful racket on his guitar....hahaha...But then he is 8, still a little guy....He wants to learn but he wants to play also...can't blame him there...So lessons are sorta playing around and maybe hitting a few notes....As long as he has fun! I will admit that I can only take them so far in lessons...if they surpass what I know...then I will get them lessons with an instructor....I mean I can play....I can play almost any chord/note on a guitar...it's the speed at which my fingers shift from chord to chord that has always been my problem...it was never quite there...A quarter beat between chords always ended up a whole beat....and while practice makes perfect...I don't think this was true for me...but I still loved it and may even buy me another guitar at some point...(I had sold my old Ovation a long time ago) But what I know is more than enough to get the boys going and playing...So when I work with one child I use the other childs guitar to practice along with them...I have to say...It's really been a blast! Hayley is excited too as I had told her that if she keeps up making the Honor Roll this year...She will get an electric drum set...again...the beginner's desktop ones WITH HEADPHONES!! Told her she was on her own learning as I know nothing about hitting the skins...but I have scoped out some really good CD-Rom's about learning how to play drums...

Now If I could just get Mike to learn how to play bass.............mmmmmmmm.....Mike playing bass.......Okay mind wandering there.....hehehehe....We'd be a regular Partridge family! "Hello World there's a song that we're singing...Come on get Happy!!!!"

Now does everyone have that song going thru thier head now??????



Take care all!!!!!!