I've sat on these for a long time, continually thinking I'd get back to them someday.

Someday has come and gone, so I finally just decided that whether I do anything else with them 'someday' or not, it doesn't hurt anything to throw these versions of the songs up to share. Recording at home requires a quiet house; but more presently, 10 month old daughters love quiet houses as a canvas upon which to paint masterpieces, blending giggles, pot clanging, raucous electronic toys whose batteries seem to live on forever, piano slamming, and even the ouchy cries I'll call "the sounds of learning". I will gladly give up the chance to use the quiet for my musical pursuits for the chance to give her a warm place in which to grow. It's an extremely small part of my calling to give up my life for her and my wife, as Jesus did for me. There may be a day that I can pick it back up, but God has given me peace about it not being now. That doesn't mean there aren't days I wish I could work on it, but it's a decision I finally realized I needed to make: to grudgingly give in, yet remain bitter about something I wanted but couldn't physically realize, or to embrace the opportunity to be a Dad and do what I was called to do. In that frame, the choice was obvious.

With that in mind, these are rather rough mixes. Ok, they stink. I didn't even learn how to change a single track's volume within the course of the song, so each track is basically set at a level and left for the entire duration. It works to get the basic point across, though.