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So my first-grade daughter complains that I play the guitar too much. Actually, she says that I play the guitar ALL THE TIME but that's just the way her brain works. Everything is always all or nothing. But in any case I understand that she feels ignored when I am playing and she misses me and would like more of my attention so I have made it a practice of not playing when she is with me. Well the other day we were reading "Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day" by Jamie Lee Curtis. I would read it with dramatic expression of all the emotions. Then she would read it to me after which she would want me to read it back to her the way that I do it. After doing this a few times I started to get bored so to spice things up a bit I reversed my expression so I read the mad part in my cheery voice and the silly party in my serious voice. While Adriann got a kick out of this she still wanted me to read it again but the regular way. It's a rhyming book so I wanted to see if I could get away with singing it to her but she wouldn't go for that either. Still it gave me an idea. I can come up with music and melodies in my sleep but lyrics require hard labor - maybe I could just put all these children's books to music. So when Adriann got home from school today I had a melody and chords worked out for the book. I asked her if she would help me by turning the pages, which she did perfectly. So I managed to get in some guitar playing where my daughter did not feel ignored. Tonight I came up with music for "All I See is Part of Me" which is a great book by the way.