Singing

Went to watch "We bought a Zoo". Not bad...a little slow going initially...(for some throughout), but still in my opinion, touching with a nice family message/reminder. Kids loved it, except for a small kissing part where they went "ewwwww" and covered their eyes.
Well...during a part of the show, the song "And I think it's Gonna rain Today" was featured. For a while I tried to figure out where I've heard the song. It's a song I used to love but have not heard in more than 10 years! Finally I figured out it was a song Bette Midler used to sing.

Upon getting home, I just HAD to...I downloaded the lyrics, got on my piano and recorded this impromptu. Chords may not be not right...but hey...I just had to record it. Love the song so much for some reason. Here's it, my impromptu recording and singing.


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Jo and Snail
*warning...cruel post*. After gardening yesterday...Jo drew me some diagrams and said "Mum, this is a snail. Now if you hit it and it breaks, you'll see a slug inside. If it's a mummy snail, you'll see yellow eggs inside stuck on its body. Now if you squish it somemore...you'll get yucky squishy things, the eggs will be destroyed. If you want it worse...you roll it around in mud." (That's how disgusting Jo can get....uurrrghhhh.....)

Story Telling -The sleeping Beauty (Dormouse)

My children love stories, and because of that we're members of 2 libraries which we visit frequently. It's a lot cheaper to borrow then to buy tonnes of books, plus my nose would get terribly runny with all the dust from books.

Today at the library, Jo picked up this book entitled Sleeping Beauty, only Beauty here is a Dormouse. I placed it on my piano and decided to do an impromptu story telling, singing and telling as it came. Well..they loved it so much, they made me do it twice. It worked at getting their attention. :)

Story telling should always be attractive and captivating to the listener, ..it has to attract the child. So one should use the voice, facial expression and hand gestures freely. You could also include props, puppets, pictures or piano as I did here. You'll know what your child loves best. :)

Here's part of what I did for story telling today, video a little shaky, taken by my child.. (I do realise that I was reading a little too fast here...well, was afraid batteries would run out, and it did!)

Catching Fireflies - Piano Improvisation

My piano was sent for repair over the weekend, and I missed it terribly. When it was returned, I was overjoyed, and more so before the sound's so much more beautiful now. I took out my good faithful camera with the intention of recording whatever came to mind. As I sat there.. I saw the reflection of light on my piano, captured in the camera. An idea came to mind..and this is what I did. Basically I improvised (played freely) on my piano while using a hand from time to time to play with the light reflection. I'll call the piece Catching Fireflies. Hope you enjoy  the video.

A short rendition of True Colours by my child and I

Decided to do a little home recording today. Not very good quality, I need to get a tutorial or help in setting up a better home recording system. In mean time, here's something I and my girl did today, rough recording. Hope you enjoy it. To you all out there... you're beautiful   :)