Best Day Ever

Top three days of my life... baby, marriage, birth of a musical baby.

Waiting for my song demo to be emailed to me was excruciating. 

We video recorded hearing the song for the first time because it is a moment I want to never forget.  I planned on keeping this to myself, but I took some screen shots to share. I share them because there are so many that have been a part of this along the way, and so I want to share this moment with you. So to those who have believed in me along the way, thank you.   I appreciate your support because it lead me to one of the best moments in my life.

  Tosh is out of the shot to the left. That is what I am looking at =)

This could be a GIF on what it looks like to "have a cow"...

  I will watch the video anytime I need a reminder of how good it felt to see something I did come full circle...

 I will watch it when I feel like I suck...

I will watch it when I send off a song and it gets bad reviews...

I will watch it when I don't feel good enough...

I will watch it to remember that I can do it...

 I will watch it to remember that following your dreams and believing in yourself  feels amazing...

and I hope some day I can watch it and say this was the start of something great.

I think I listened 1000 times. I had to hear it on my headphones...

and in the car.   I took it to my parents and listened to it with them in their car.  It was so great to sit there with them and hear it and have them throw out names of singers they could hear singing it.  It brought me back to the days of writing songs in their attic.

Maybe, just maybe, I will write a song for someone and it will be on the radio.  Or maybe not.  But either way I feel like I have already succeeded.  I always wanted to hear my song, done by someone else, and I have.   

For all my friends, just in case you were wondering....you are good enough...at whatever it is...you can do it...and should do it.   It is never too late. 

and just for good measure (because there are a few people left in the world whose emails I didn't have) 

http://thepixelproject.com/courtney/

(I wrote the music and lyrics and these lovely musicians and lovely singer in Nashville did this demo.)