Moving the studio...... and embracing a new season.

We've had a studio in our house for a few years now. It was great for awhile. We could work from our home while the kids were too young to be left alone. My last CD, "Life Goes On" was recorded during many late night sessions while kids were sleeping just a few rooms away. It was awesome to have it right at our fingertips at anytime to use. But recently, we realized that it was time for a change.

One thing I am becoming increasingly aware of is that we have "seasons" in our lives. The season for having the studio in our house has passed. Now the kids are older. They have friends coming and going more often, which is great, but also makes for alot more noise around here, which isn't good for recording. We also now have two dogs, who both love to bark randomly at all hours of the day and night. Again, not good for recording. The "Music City Star" started it's daily transportation which added to the train traffic, and since we live right beside the train tracks.... well, you know what I'm about to say. Although I actually love the sound of the trains, I don't LOVE it in the background of my vocal track. We have planes going overhead (we live near the airport), boats going down the river (we live on the Cumberland River too) and cars driving by. Even though we have some sound-proofing, it's still hard to block out all the noise. There are just too many distractions around here, and that combined with needing more room in the house to LIVE in made us decide to move on downtown. My son, Derek found a great little place for us to all share. Derek, his friend Snake, Mike and I are all going in together on a little room down on 17th Ave. Look out Music Row!! Here we come!!

I'm sure we will miss having the studio here sometimes, but our needs have changed here at the house. We need the room for other things now. I think it's going to be good for us all to have a new adventure before us.... starting our own business and watching what God has in store for us in this new season of our lives. It all fell into place VERY quickly, almost as if God was just waiting for us to figure it out and once we did, it was just super easy because He already had done all the groundwork for us!!

Personally, I feel like I'm definitely at a big crossroads in my life. I feel myself entering into an entirely new season, but I'm not sure what it is yet!! I just know that I'm restless and discontent lately, which usually means that God is nudging me in a new direction. He's trying to push me into a better place, but right now I feel too blind to see what is probably right in front of me. I did make a pretty big change yesterday. You all will find out about that soon..... I'm not ready to disclose it yet, but I'm stepping out in faith, hoping that as I "prune" some things out of my life that I don't think are good for me anymore, God will fill those empty spaces with better things for me. Things that will bring glory to Him. That is my hope, and my prayer......