Let's Get Our Hands Dirty!

I'm a neat freak. I'll admit I REALLY struggled with letting my son get dirty.  Whether it be in the kitchen with his dinner or outside in the dirt. Spring used to be a pretty stressful time for me with all that mud everywhere. It took until after his 3rd birthday for me to embrace the inevitable stained knees and the mystery goo that I'd pull from his hair. I realized I was holding him back from truly discovering the world around him. You can always buy new clothes, but you can't buy experience....especially for a growing child. Here's a great article about just that:
Lion's Whiskers: Let's Talk Dirty: "I am a gardener. I get dirty. I often wear dark nail polish in the summer to hide how unscrubbably grimy my fingernails have become. And t..."

All Things Fresh & New

   Spring is in the air! I have always envisioned Spring as a sort of Pied Piper that causes us all to suddenly start dancing and singing as if we were marionettes in a play. It's a funny image that I think every Spring and it always makes me smile. Everyone is happier and life seems to hold more promise and opportunity.
   Life is good for me and my little family. Our second son, Zander Frederic was born Dec 6,2010 and he is a constant source of joy. I am thoroughly enjoying being a Mom and love the extra time to spend with my boys. With the coming of Spring, I'm also very excited to have renewed my Kindermusik license and look forward to taking some more classes and preparing for teaching this fall.
   My plans are still to provide another Demo Day this summer in my hometown of St. Pierre-Jolys, hopefully for early August if everything goes as planned. It's a great way to come and experience what a typical Kindermusik class would be like and to be able to meet me face to face before committing to a full semester class. I will post when I have a fixed date and look forward to seeing some familiar faces and making some new friends.

Growing in a Slightly Different Direction...For Now.

After a great deal of thought and deliberation, I've decided to make some changes to my Kindermusik schedule as of this summer. The very next day after I posted my Summer Camp Classes announcement, my husband and I found out that we were expecting our second child! I was hopeful that I'd still be able to teach classes for this summer, but decided it would be best to hold off. I'm due in the beginning of December and hope to resume classes for the fall of 2011. At that point, I'll most likely be providing a few core classes in my home town and then plan to launch a studio location in Steinbach, MB for the new year of 2012. I hope to be able to provide a full spectrum of classes at that time and look forward to really stretching out and bringing the Kindermusik experience to as many families as I can. I'll be posting any changes to these plans as time goes along and will be sure to give everyone a heads up as to when I'll be starting up again and which classes I'll be teaching.
I'm sad to have to put my classes on hold when I only just got started, but I'm so very excited to become a mother again and want to cherish every moment of motherhood that I can. I've greatly enjoyed teaching my music & movement classes and I can't think of a better job to return to than Kindermusik, where I can sing and dance with young families again.