Good Evening!
I hope everyone had a great holiday season!
I apologize for combining the November and December invoices, and any confusion or concern that may have caused. As I'm sure many of you can relate, we had quite the busy 5 or 6 weeks over the holidays. We had family in town for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, and then my husband, who helps me with the billing, and I both ended up with some extra performing opportunities in December. Neither of us has pursued many freelance jobs over the last 12 or so years while our boys were in middle school and high school as we focused on supporting them and their activities. But, since we are empty nesters now, except for the holidays it would seem, we took some jobs this year that we wouldn't have previously. But that meant that he and I pretty much didn't see each other very much for about three weeks. And since we have to work together to get the billing done, and billing in the middle of the month always causes a lot fo confusion, we decided that it would be best to just wait until January and bill for both months. I think we did the same thing last year. I'm not sure that it's going to become an annual occurrence. I hope not!
I want to say congratulations to all of my students that participated in the various all-region and all-state band auditions. While I had many make all of the bands at every level, including 6 high school TPSMEA/TMEA all-staters, I'm very proud of all who tried out. A lot of work goes into preparing for auditions, and all of you are to be commended for your effort and progress.
And a big THANK YOU to parents for supporting your child. Thank you for letting me be a part of their exploration and love of music!
