Flashback Friday: Piano Protege

I started piano lessons when I was 4 years old. When your mom is a piano pedagogy major there's really no way to avoid it. (Well, all of my siblings had piano lessons, but most quit after a few years. I have gone the farthest of all of my siblings and my oldest brother would be next in line achievement. The other three can read music, but that's about it.)

Nonetheless, I am grateful for my early training because I have been able to build upon it. I have gone from piano student to piano accompanist to organ student to organ accompanist and somewhere in the middle of there I became a piano teacher. I started teaching at 14, I think, teaching the daughter of a dear friend and through the years have taught up to 23 students a week. Right now I'm at 7 students a week and enjoying it.

Playing the piano has been a great hobby as well as a great job. I am ever so grateful that my mom took the time to teach me at such a young age so that I could share my talent today! So, as it is a Flashback Friday, here are some pictures of me at the piano over the years. (They are about as chronological as I could get.)

This was one of my most favorite dresses. It had ruffles up the back.





This would also go up there in favorite dresses.