The Daily Hailey

Brady and I were asked to play guitar and sing for a cafe night in town last night, and it was a very real success! Not our music, even, but the whole event!! I have high hopes that the project will move forward and that our small town will soon have a new establishment coming up!

We played for a solid hour before the presentation while everyone drank specialty coffee and ate fancy desserts and visited. I LOVED the din that swallowed our music up. We were a little bit nervous going into the event, as we weren’t able to polish up our voices and songs as well as we would have liked, and we didn’t want to make tons of big mistakes. The sounds of visiting and bustling and eating and laughing was PERFECT, because not only did it sound exactly as a coffee shop should sound, but it let us be exactly what we had hoped for – some solid background music. We thoroughly enjoyed it.

We were among some of the last to leave, as we got our visiting in after we were done playing. Meanwhile, the hired barista was packing up his station. He came over to us with a 4L jug of whole milk in his hand and said “A tip for the musicians with a bunch of kids!” Everyone still in the room burst out laughing, myself included, but I was also thrilled, haha! Being that we go through an outrageous amount of milk, that was actually a hilarious and incredibly appreciated tip!

We took our guitar and milk home to our quiet house. Hailey had gotten our kids off to bed, and had done all of our dishes! We sat and visited into the wee hours of the morning before she headed on her way and we hit the sack. It all rounded out to be a super nice day. We thoroughly enjoyed playing music together for a crowd again. Its been SO long. I hope, if this cafe comes to life, we’re asked again. 🙂