Piano
Well, after talking with commonreader, I came to a conclusion that if I ever want my children to want to play an instrument, I should be interested in playing an instrument. I started to brainstorm. The first thing I'd need is an instrument. The ones I have access to are: saxaphone, guitar, and a piano at my dad's. So I decided on the piano. I never had the time or patience in HS to learn with all the sports and what not. My dad found my sister a piano long ago and my sister has not touched the thing in years! Its now just a storage table. :-(
So I am going to call my dad and sister and see if they'd let me have it. Both my mom and my dad have trucks, so if either of them ever decided to come visit me (which they haven't) they could bring it out to me. I could then pay to have it tuned/repaired or whatever it needed. Catherine, my priest's oldest daughter, was a piano major in college. Her first semester they told her that she knew more than they did and there was nothing they could teach her, so she changed majors to Russian and they told her she was beyond 4th year her second year. Needless to say she is a very bright woman. She has two young children, but I bet if Isaac could babysit (He is awesome with kids. We call him the Baby King, jokingly.) and we offered to pay her for lessons, she would do it. Even if Catherine can't, we live outside of St. Louis. There has to be a piano teacher somewhere nearby.
Well this is still an idea, but I think it would be fun to learn! Then when we have children, we have another thing available to enrich themselves.
EDIT: I talked to my sister and she told me she bought the piano with her own money. She said she spent $350. She would have been 8 at the time, so I don't know how she had $350. Anyways, she said its hers and even if she doesn't touch it again, I can't have it.
So I am going to call my dad and sister and see if they'd let me have it. Both my mom and my dad have trucks, so if either of them ever decided to come visit me (which they haven't) they could bring it out to me. I could then pay to have it tuned/repaired or whatever it needed. Catherine, my priest's oldest daughter, was a piano major in college. Her first semester they told her that she knew more than they did and there was nothing they could teach her, so she changed majors to Russian and they told her she was beyond 4th year her second year. Needless to say she is a very bright woman. She has two young children, but I bet if Isaac could babysit (He is awesome with kids. We call him the Baby King, jokingly.) and we offered to pay her for lessons, she would do it. Even if Catherine can't, we live outside of St. Louis. There has to be a piano teacher somewhere nearby.
Well this is still an idea, but I think it would be fun to learn! Then when we have children, we have another thing available to enrich themselves.
EDIT: I talked to my sister and she told me she bought the piano with her own money. She said she spent $350. She would have been 8 at the time, so I don't know how she had $350. Anyways, she said its hers and even if she doesn't touch it again, I can't have it.