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 Julia-the life of a home-schooler. Seminary,  math, go swimming, practice piano, get a snack, work on the rest of school, do chores, go to cheer then come home and collapse.  On the way to piano lessons yesterday she said, "I'm so busy all the time!"

This picture of my Mom, "Grammy" to my kids, makes me so happy,  David did so well at his piano lesson yesterday because he has had my Mom, who took piano from  kindergarten until her sophmore year in high school to help him practice.  The piano they are playing on was an eighth grade graduation present from my Nonnie, my mom's mom.  We just got it tuned yesterday and it sounds fabulous.
I was outside watering yesterday but could hear the piano being played; it was a song my Mom used to play  when I was a little girl.  I thought maybe one of the girls had been looking through Grammy's sheet music and started to play it but when I went in the house it was my Mom playing.  She hasn't really played the piano that much in the last fifteen years or so because of arthritis in her fingers and the piano needing to be tuned.  When I saw her and said, "Oh, I thought it was one of girls playing but that song sounded so familiar from growing up hearing you play it but I thought you couldn't really play anymore?!"  Mom said, "Well with all the piano playing going on aroud here it made me want to play too!"