the prior whirlwind weeks!

It's 3am and I'm up with the baby.. he's 8 weeks today and the last weeks have been a bit of a blur with opening the new studio, taking care of 2 kids and keeping things going! I'm starting to get used to the lack of sleep and coffee (even if it's just decaf) seems to keep me alert enough! I'm sure the excitement of it all helps too.

Sad thing is that baby is sleeping again and here I am writing! I treasure now these quiet nighttime wakings.

So here's what's happening with the studio..
Came back to work 4 weeks ago and started right back to my regular schedule. Rachel and Angela and Mary were AWESOME in covering. Rachel covered a lot of my schedule and I'm especially grateful to how she keeps my students in check and required much of them.

The new studio construction seemed to take FOREVER.. we signed the lease in January I think and the last few weeks really dragged on. They finally finished enough that we could get occupancy last week Friday, then over the weekend we finished some things up and Jacob went to IKEA on Tuesday and the pianos arrived on Wed.

The studio space is beautiful. It's warm and friendly yet professional and it really looks nice. Everyone that has come through and seen it is amazed at how big it actually is and the design.

I wasn't sure how I'd feel about teaching there. I started on Wed. and despite some bumps with communication it felt great! All 3 teachers were there teachers for one consecutive hour which I enjoyed.. it really made it feel like it was being used properly.

I actually enjoyed the smaller room as opposed to my large studio space at home and I really enjoy having it separate from home. It has been a new change in routine and that has been a mild challenge with dragging kids from home to studio just to shuffle cars so Jacob's home on time, also making sure we have food and clothes for both kids at the studio is something to figure out. Aeden loves it there though and has asked a couple times if we could have a slumber party there!

The largest room is like a sauna with large windows that capture the sun in the evening. Something we hadn't anticipated.

Julia was at the studio on Thursday working and it was wonderful to have her there helping make phone calls, clean up and get things organized. I found that I felt I wanted to help a bit, but I also tried to resist the urge to micromanage. Faith starts next week 3 days and Julia will be 2 till we fill Fridays. For now I'm hoping to keep Fridays open and not teach that day.

The Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting have been lots of preparation see the next post about the Ribbon Cutting!