Bluegrass

Nate and I just got home from a bluegrass concert. Our friend Nyk Vail plays in the Teton Shadow Mountain Boys. They were really good. You know what's odd? I hate country music (I've tried to give it a chance, but I just can't take it!) but I LOVE bluegrass music. Bluegrass music is just so easy to listen to and is so much fun to see live. I think it's the awesome instruments involved, my favorite being the banjo.

I've thought of playing the banjo before. I think I know myself well enough to know that I am no good at practicing or sticking with instruments. I think I might make Blaine play the banjo. How do you get kids to play instruments anyway? Nothing really lasted in my family. My parents gave us a choice and as kids we all chose to not practice and quit. Now I think it'd be awesome if I would have been forced to keep at something. Then I'd be talented. But on the other hand, maybe I would resent my parents for forcing me how to play.

I have a solution... I will force Blaine to play the banjo, and then let my second child choose to do whatever he wants and then I'll see which one turns out better in the end :)

In all seriousness though, I do think it'd be awesome if my kids could have bluegrass jams. Nate plays the Mandolin so all we need is a fiddle, banjo, bass, and guitar. Or at least a guitar and fiddle. We'll see. I'm this is one of those fantasy pictures that so many moms have envisioned for their future just to have their kids complain and not go along with it. Like my mom. She wishes we were more like the Vontrap family. Singing songs she taught us and frolicking in the mountains with her. My mother in law has also told me to beware to getting too many pictures in my head about my future. It'll be interesting to see how everything works out in the end. As long as my kids are perfect, I'll be just fine ;)