Julie's Singing Time Blog

Towards the end of January this year, I was called to be the primary chorister for our ward. I was sad to be released from the nursery since I had been the nursery leader for almost three years, but thrilled to be called back into the primary as the chorister. I love being in primary! I've had numerous callings in the primary organization and have grown to love being around and teaching these sweet and precious spirits. I have secretly wanted to be called as the primary chorister in our ward. I had this calling 9 years ago when we lived in Texas and went to the College Station 2nd Ward while Joshua was in graduate school. I loved it and am beginning to remember why I loved it so much! It has taken me a few weeks to get comfortable, but I think I'm finally getting use to it. This calling is a lot of work, and takes a lot of thought and time, but I have many, many ideas jogging around in my mind right now and hopefully, I'll be able to use them all soon. I pray that I'll be blessed in my efforts.

I was thrilled this week that Joshua was called as the primary pianist! I'm so excited to be working with him. It'll be a lot of fun. He was released as priesthood pianist, but still has his other callings --- ward choir director and elder's quorum second counselor. After singing time each week, he'll have to run off to priesthood pretty quickly.

Anyway, shortly after receiving this calling, I went through my old "singing time" box of things I kept from the last time I had this calling, and I realized I didn't document or write down very many of my past efforts and ideas. I had a few things here and there, and of course memories of things that worked well before, but this time, I'm going to do a better job of documenting my work. I decided to start a 'Singing Time' blog to keep a record of all my ideas this time around. Each week, I'll upload pictures and record the week's lesson plan.

My singing time blog address is http://juliesingingtime.blogspot.com/. I created another link on the right side of this blog (under "Blogging Friends" as Julie's Singing Time Blog). So, if you are so inclined, check back often to see what I've been up. So far, I've already recorded the four weeks I've been the primary chorister. If you have any good ideas for things you've seen done in your primary singing time, let me know. I can use all the ideas I can get.