Man, this co-op on Monday's deal makes my week SO out of whack.  Tuesday feels like Monday as far as school work goes, and piano practice, and everything else.

It's cool today, and it was yesterday, too.  We had to turn on the space heaters.  Naturally, I found my boys huddled around it when I got up this morning.  The basement is actually still warm enough not to need the heaters turned on, but they inherited that from me, I guess.  It's as close as we get to sitting in front of a fireplace. 

I came across this on Slice of Laodicea today.  Ingrid... one of the moderators there posted this about Mahler's 3rd Symphony.  I love her perspective on it.  I need to go get out my CD's and see if I have Mahler's 3rd.  Steve and I had a really good friend in college who was consumed with Mahler.  He would put on recordings and open up the doors and let the music swell throughout the whole music building.  Only after class hours, of course.  I miss that aspect of life B.C. (before children for the uninitiated)  I would love to be able to go to concerts or even student recitals.  MSUB isn't exactly a hub for really great artistic perfomances, but the symphony there was actually pretty good, and I still was able to aquire a taste for it.  Sort of like the doctrines of grace.  Once you taste how wonderful and deep and rich they are, there isn't any turning back.