Days Like Today

Today was a good day. In fact, it was a great day - except for some scary phone charges I found out about! Yikes! Anyway, on to lighter subject matter.

Wednesdays are my longest days.
Enter into a typical Wednesday with Jessie.
5am: Wake up. Shower. Get ready for school. Grab breakfast.
5:30: Practice
7:00: Leave for school
8:00: Piano lesson
9:30-1:30: Class
1:30: Drive home
2:30: Practice
3-4:30: Teach piano
4:30-9:30: Practice, study, dinner, free time (ha!), etc.
9:30: Bed time!

I actually do a pretty good job keeping to this. I'm asleep by 10 almost every night.
So why was this a good day?
Many reasons, I suppose. Shall I list them?
If you insist.

1. I had a very good piano lesson! It's no fun to play while sick, like I did last week.
2. I'm loving woodwind class, and my clarinet skills are improving. (I played Jingle Bells today and a round of Row, Row, Row Your Boat! Ha!)
3. I'm beginning to understand all this chant stuff for music history. I even kinda like to listen to the chants. They're so ominously beautiful.
4. I volunteered and played my Bach Prelude in studio class today! It was uncomfortable and I didn't feel completely ready, but I went for it. So glad I did! Such a good learning experience.
5. Tali and I are on the same phone plan, and I'm oh-so-thankful for that! It was nice to talk to her to pass the time while driving home. Did I mention for free?
6. My students crack me up! They're all so great! Today's line-up was Caroline W, Emma, & Sophie (not little Sophie). Caroline and Emma are pretty much a little Tali and me. They're always together. They have back-to-back lessons and came together today. You should have seen the looks on their faces when I told them they could play a duet. They were SO EXCITED! I have a great job.
7. Sophie is so eager to learn. I love that. She's not content to just sit on a bench and listen to me talk. She has to peer into the piano and crawl under - "It's brown underneath!" - and explore like a tactile learner must. She's always forcing me to adapt my teaching style. It's good for me. I like it.
8. Tonight one of my classmates is giving her junior recital at school. She's worked so hard and deserves a good turn-out. I'm going to be there to support her!
9. Right after finding out about said scary charges, I was asked to baby sit for a good chunk of time. God always provides. :)
10. Finally, I have NO theory homework! Everyone say, "Yippee!" Mrs. Theory Professor finally realized that it was too much to assign a lot of homework Tuesday and expect it to be completed by Thursday morning. Now she only assigns work on Thursdays. :D :D :D

It's days like today that remind me why I'm in school, that I love to play, that I love to teach, that I love music, and that I love life! Good things to remember, huh? :)