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I've only ever collaborated on a couple of songs. But I wrote "More Than Enough" with my daughter, Rebecca, and I loved every minute of it. (Including our 5 hour phone conversation late one night. From 10:00 pm to 3:00 am. Yikes!)
Rebecca isn't the only family member who had something to do with this song. My own mother is also part of the story. This is a song influenced by three generations of women who all had occasion to feel the same way...that they weren't doing enough.
Read more about the story here, along with why I chose the specific lyrics I did, and why I didn't use the word, "Mother" in the song...
Masa Fukuda, Director of the One Voice Children's Choir, and my all-time producer. Thank you, Masa -- you're a genius. :)
Okay, to start with, I know what you're thinking. "How am I going to teach 3 verses?!" Which might be code for, "What in the world was she thinking?!"
Well, I was thinking that I just HAD to have that 3rd verse, because it's the most beautiful, and because the song kind of 'grows up,' just like a child does. And I'm also thinking about several easy ways to teach it. Yes. Easy.
Here are a few ideas for you, and then a detailed description of how to teach the song quickly -- with NO visual aids:
I emailed the first draft of my new Mother's Day song to my daughter. She wrote back and said, "So I don't love it. And I don't relate to it."
Well, at least she's honest.
Then she shared the kind of day she'd had -- that she didn't feel at all like the Mother's-Day-song-kind-of-mom that day because she was frustrated and tired and just hanging on 'til bedtime.
She said, "On days like today, I just need to know I'm doing enough. I wish you'd write a song about that."
And so I did. Read more about it here.
The 50-50 Challenge
Have you ever set any the following New Year’s Resolutions?
Own more stuff. Waste more money. Spend more time and energy on things that don’t matter.
And yet, do you ever get to the end of the year and realize that you've wasted too much time on things that don’t matter?
That's what I did in 2016...and this is what I'm doing about it...
So.....I've lowered the "Choose Him Again" group bundle price to $4.99, because I wanted to make it as affordable as possible. And since I've started with the topic of money -- and I NEVER talk about money -- I think now might be a good time to answer this question I frequently (but indirectly) get:
1. Why isn't your music free? (We're used to getting Church music for free)
Believe me. I've struggled with this question many, many times...