First post!

Hello, blogosphere! 

This is my blog devoted to all things music! First, I should introduce myself a tad, for posterity's sake, even if no one else reads this but myself and the occasional family member. 

I am Courtney Hollenbeck and I live in Indiana with my wonderful husband, Brett, and we are mounting on a few exciting landmarks: our first anniversary is coming up on July 28th, Brett recently began his new management trainee job with Cintas, and I am mounting on my first year as an elementary music teacher!

I am beyond the moon excited to begin this exciting new journey and to see what challenges and joys are in store for me this year. I often don't do enough reflecting beyond what goes on inside of my own busy brain, so I thought starting a music teacher blog would be a good way for me to ruminate on my many musings!

This month will be a busy one of lesson planning and prepping my classroom for the first day of school, which is August 1st! Noblesville Schools is on a balanced calendar, hence the early start date, but I am eager to see how this year pans out with the longer fall, Christmas, and spring breaks!

Tune it to see what "musical musings" are happening in my little music classroom, and feel free to leave advice, steal ideas that I have most likely stolen from master teachers/Pinterest, and leave me encouraging words throughout this crazy, first year of teaching!

Thanks! 
CH