My life is pretty monotonous these-a-days. But! It is all worth it because yesterday...One of my student's mom came in and listened and partook of music time. Afterwards she came up to me and said "Thank you so much for all you do. (Her child, we will call him E) can't say many things, but one word he knows how to say is "Jake." She continued..."He gets so excited when he knows you are coming to do music that day, and we talk about you at home a lot. E loves you."

Needless to say, I was on the verge of tears. I'll take weeks of rain and clouds and cold and grad school and, and, and, and...if I could hear that every once in a while.