Abbott Family Music, as you may know, is currently nothing more than us four Abbotts. Still, we are a business… and as we all know, businesses must have meetings. (Somehow we managed to get by the first half-a-dozen years without monthly conferences, but thankfully we began holding regular business meetings before true mass chaos set in.)

Here’s another interesting fact: Not only must businesses have meetings, but you must have donuts for a meeting to be official… and yes, the box must be pink. It’s tradition!

Well, today we had a meeting, and we decided, among other things, that we should strive for more transparency in our business; let people get to know the real Abbotts behind it all. Here, in our first step of the new Transparency Initiative (as I started calling it… about 7 seconds ago), you can catch a rare glimpse into the decision-making process at Abbott Family Music meetings:

(We unfolded the box for better access to the goods, but it is pink… trust me.)