I had so much fun on Friday!

Three years ago, when I began Studio3Music, I had to step out of the Kindermusik classroom in order to run the business part of this venture. I traded hugs and kisses (and chocolate at Christmas), for number crunching, phone calls, writing checks, and other various assorted things that are often not so fun. Though I do actually love a lot of the business stuff. In fact, last year, (not including the emails I deleted – “I have 2 million in a bank account in Sudan and I can’t get it out without your help and I’ll pay you 1.5 million”… ), 24,318 emails went in and out of my business email account last year.

So, I was totally tickled when I got to teach five makeup classes last Friday. Thanks for coming. I got to match names (and email addresses) to faces. It was delightful, and I got hugs and kisses and felt loved! (Though sadly, there was no chocolate.) It was so much fun, even though I did have a sobber in Imagine That that clung like a monkey to me for half of class, while growups watched me over the half wall with “how are you going to handle this?” looks on their faces. (Please go get some coffee, moms and dads. I’m not a Broadway show. And I’ll be fine. I like monkeys.) And even though when I stared at 17 children and their parents (some brought 2 grownups each) that somehow showed up to my first Our Time I totally blanked on the sticks for the Hello Song I’ve been singing once a week for the past 9 years with my own children, it was still a blast.

I came home 2 pounds lighter (I kid you not – I can’t believe I pay for a gym membership when I could be doing this!), probably because of the 4 stick horse rides I took to Grandma’s house, 5 stints as a horse pulling sleighs home, 47 rounds of the Pony Macaroni bounce, 4 “Snowky Pokey’s”, 6 line dances, and the 6,782 snowman stamps all over various assorted body parts. Hope you found the “secret stamps” I sent home to daddies!

Thank you so much for sharing your children with me. It was a pleasure and a treat!

-posted by Miss Analiisa, who has since eaten enough dark chocolate to locate those two missing pounds.