It’s the law, every year I have to write a blog post called April Showers, because every year it rains for several days straight and I get depressed. That was last week.

But seriously, this has been a crazy time. I know I say that every year, but this year we added on getting a house on the market to the usual April craziness. Take on the usual getting ready for the end of the semester, preparing students for recitals, festivals, juries, tests, etc. Performances, rearranging schedules for a week of the Wizard of Oz. Louie taking a trip to Germany for a conference. The dryer breaks down and we need a new one. We get the old house on the market. This means we get it cleaned out and ready for pictures, no small feat. Louie spends spring break on this. I spend spring break working, because I do that. Then we spend all our free time continuing to work on it, and it goes on the market, and he goes to Germany and we get a few offers and we go under contract, woo hoo!!!

So then I went to Chicago for a weekend for a quick trip, which was super fun! I went to see a violin recital with Julia Fischer and Jan Liesiecki. I drove up with my friend Manuela and her husband one day, stayed overnight and then drove back the next.

I had a week not worrying about the house, air drying clothes because I needed to wait for Louie to return home to get the new dryer (we needed to deal with a gas line issue as well, thankfully the washer still worked well enough) and I even managed to get my taxes done! And now I am in the home stretch, the show I’m playing is super fun, my taxes are filed though not yet paid (I will wait till the last minute for that), the world is burning but what can we do other than protest and call and I’ll protest when I’m not working I guess, and Louie is spending the weekend working on the house and I’ll spend the weekend at the Music Club Festival and playing the Wizard of Oz and seeing a student perform at Wash U. Two weeks left of class AND we close in two weeks. It’ll be a nice time to have a cash infusion. Long story as to why we moved two years ago and are selling now but it involved some renting, some repairs, some issues with a bunch of stuff, but I think it worked out for the best. And we ended up having a really terrific real estate agent for us.

Fingers crossed the rest of the month works out smoothly enough and there are no bombs dropped on us, figuratively or literally. I guess keep an eye on your signal chats, if you have them.