Hi everyone - just thought I'd blog today since I have some time...it's not quiet at all, but I do have a moment away from my everyday normal life... We're at our friend Joe's house cutting some tunes.. he has a studio here... It's funny, here in Franklin, TN sometimes making a record just looks like visiting friends, house to house...seems like everyone's got a studio in their back room now.

It's really fun to be making a studio record again - anything recent has been "live". It's crazy but we just prayed and asked God to show us if this was the right thing to do...we asked specifically that the money would be there (cause it wasn't) and the time would open up - both things happened right around Christmas time - 2 projects Nathan had for January and February got moved to later in the Spring so everything cleared out right when we had asked...which means I have a really amazing producer all to myself...yes!

The creative process looks so incredibly different now - the writing process for me is almost unrecognizable... I love it though - it's challenging, it's real and it means my family has not been left behind or forgotten. The girls are here - we have the "pack and play" set up in one room for Annie Rose and Ellie is playing with Joe's kids - Noah is at a friend's house today - no school to observe MLK Day... I've had to learn that the creative process can be something that is just a part of my life and it can "flow" at any given moment - wherever I am...whatever I'm doing. I've always resisted that whole multi-tasking thing, but crap, it's true..mom's have to - and we are really good at it, I must say...

Our writing process has been almost hilarious at times - Annie Rose loves that "Johnny Jump Up" thing, you know? She bounces in- time to the songs we play and she grins... We're still writing even though we're recording this week...we're doing a few songs today and tomorrow and then the rest in a few weeks... There will most likely be some co-writes on this record. That is a new one for me...but I'm thrilled. It's a process that has been surprisingly enjoyable. If anything it brings unity and it connects me to people...it's also very humbling...

So the website will launch with the record -christynockels.com - right now we're hoping for March or April - the website is just sitting there with this splash page on it right now... I haven't had the head space for it yet - so we're just waiting to launch it all at the same time.

So...the heart of this project is really just to resource what I'm already called to do... it feels almost like a necessity at this point - so it's not to launch a new "Christy Nockels singing career" it's to resource a calling that continues in my life and in my heart. I'm thankful for the freedom to shape it musically, and for friends who have come around us to help shape it as well... I'm so very grateful. So I stand in the mercy of Jesus, the Creator of the universe, as I mimic Him today...in all His creativity...and make music.

Happy 08 to all of you!
Christy