Left Coast Mama » help http://leftcoastmama.net Making Things Write on the Wrong Coast Tue, 22 May 2012 03:02:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Practice Makes Perfect: I Need A Little Faith http://leftcoastmama.net/2009/11/12/practice-makes-perfect-i-need-a-little-faith/ http://leftcoastmama.net/2009/11/12/practice-makes-perfect-i-need-a-little-faith/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:00:43 +0000 Gwen http://leftcoastmama.net/?p=858 . . . → Read More: Practice Makes Perfect: I Need A Little Faith]]> I am part of my church choir. In fact as the past choir director and organist gets older I am taking on more and more of the administrative and musical directing of the choir.  This is scary for a few reasons, the first being my absolute inability to play the piano.

Most of the time my ineptitude on the keyboard is ok because there is an organist who is willing to be part of rehearsals and the main choir services.  Rehearsals like tonight are a different story.  Without a pianist getting new members up to speed is a much more difficult task.  We started out very rough.  Of course the fact that half the choir was still not able to get to rehearsal was also a problem.  Once the main tenor was in the rehearsal and I wasn’t trying to sing three parts at once the rehearsal went much more smoothly.

I know that every year this is a problem.  People are busy and can’t make rehearsals until practically the last two weeks.  This really stresses me out even though I know it will come together.  This year I even tried to start the rehearsals early.  I figured giving the choir a few more weeks to practice that we wouldn’t be scrambling.

I think some prayers wouldn’t be amiss.  Or hey, anyone who can sing and read music available for a service on December 6th, and a couple of rehearsals beforehand, email me.

I guess I just gotta have some faith.


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Related: Choir, Christmas, Gwen, help, Singing.]]> http://leftcoastmama.net/2009/11/12/practice-makes-perfect-i-need-a-little-faith/feed/ 0 Should I or Shouldn’t I? http://leftcoastmama.net/2006/08/09/should-i-or-shouldnt-i/ http://leftcoastmama.net/2006/08/09/should-i-or-shouldnt-i/#comments Thu, 10 Aug 2006 04:21:00 +0000 Gwen http://leftcoastmama.net/?p=19 . . . → Read More: Should I or Shouldn’t I?]]> Please help! If there are any lurkers I need your comments.

I have written a post about my stepmother. It was cathartic and I needed to write it. Now I just need to know if I should post it.

I haven’t named my stepmother and it is very unlikely that she will ever find my blog let alone read it. The post isn’t mean, and my husband doesn’t think that it is too harsh considering what she did. I am obviously of two minds as to whether or not to publish this post. I would like to get all these things off my chest and it is probably better that I don’t burden my father with this. It is also extremely unlikely that he will read the post either.

I also think that if I publish this post that I will feel a hundred times better. Just having it on my computer as a draft has helped but I know that having it on my blog will take another full load off. That is a huge part of the reason that I started a blog other than my family blog. I needed a place to write things that are not always warm and fuzzy. Our family blog is a way to let the people back home see some of the changes in Aidan that they miss living on the very other side of the country. This blog is a way for me to get things off my chest. It is not always nice and cute, (though sometimes it is) and has already made being a SAHM better. I feel more connected with other people even if I don’t exactly know who those people are.

So connect people, should I publish the post or should I delete it, or should I keep it on my dashboard ready if I feel the need? Help me please.


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