Catching the Waves

Through the years I've found that the work load for Easter drama preparation comes in waves.  The first wave is getting the music picked out and getting Choir folders and rehearsal CDs ready.  The next wave is the Kick Off Meeting and all the prep that involves.  This year both of those happened the same week, so once the Kick Off Meeting was over last night, I felt pretty relieved.  I approached today committed to working only on the script.

HA.

By noon when I got a phone call that I had to pick my daughter up sick from school, I had yet to touch the script.  I'd edited the first song's tracks so I could see the exact timing for narrations, but that's it.  The rest of the morning was spent updating our Church Member Ticket Request Forms for our newsletter and bulletin, and creating an online version of the same.  (We allow our church members to reserve tickets for the Easter drama performances several weeks before we offer them to the general public.)

Then I was able to get to the script, and got a whole TWO PAGES completed!  Woo hoo!  That was in between answering about six emails from Easter drama team leaders, restructuring the script outline to accomidate some solo changes, and taking my daughters to piano lessons.

Our extra Choir rehearsal went well tonight.  By this time I'm able to determine what songs will need a lot of work, and which ones will be easy.  It looks like I'll have to work really hard on about three or four of the songs.  The rest will come easy for this Choir. 

Tomorrow I've decided I have to work from home.  I need to shut myself up in the study to work uninterupted on the script.  My goal is to have at least a third of the script completed by the end of the day.  We'll see!