The end of 2011 was tied up with family life, choirs and A LOT of reorganising on the business front. December saw us take the school choir to the huge Young Voices event at the LG Arena in Birmingham (see here for last year's Young Voices post) along with a trip to the local Merry Hill Centre for their annual Choir Competition. Although, we weren't successful with the latter, the kids did themselves proud and we couldn't have asked them to do more. I was pretty choked up after their performance I can tell you.
Things have been extremely busy with work, this being the main reason for my absence from blogland (and cardmaking and crafting and basically anything fun!). We have been evaluating our business by means of several review workshops with a local company. This has seen us assessing our client base, finances and the services we offer in order to re-evaluate and push things forward from 2012 onwards. Doing the business review has helped us immensely. We now feel that rather than drifting from one contract to the next, we have an aim and a plan that will see our business grow, year on year. In fact I'm quite excited about the potential things we have lined up for this year.
Ladies choir kicks off again tonight and we're making great progress with our rehearsals for the upcoming concert in April. Three more harmonised songs to get through and then we're all done with the 'learning' part. Only staging and a bit of choreography to master then and we're good to go. School choir starts up again next week and I have a hell of a lot of work to do before then, preparing, recording and editing music. (Had most of the music since Sept and still only just got around to doing anything with it!).
'A' performed in 'Hairspray' with Youth Onstage at the beginning on December. A fabulous show with some super performances. Although, part of the chorus, 'A's confidence has grown no-end since she joined the group. She struggled with the late nights this time and looked a little washed out by the end of it all. She's decided to take a break from the next performance to give herself opportunity to try some of the drama available at school.
Christmas 2011 has been a far more relaxed one than of late. Due to our busy work schedule during the lead up to the festive season, we were more than happy to simply chill and spend time as a family. It was our turn to invite the family on Christmas Eve and this saw us offering our usual quiz to keep everyone entertained. It's been nice having the children at home but I feel ready now to get organised and take on whatever the new year has to throw at me.
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