The Most Amazing Music Teacher

We have the most amazing music teacher.  She comes to our house.  She is young.  She is fun.  She is a fantastic teacher.  The kids love her.  And she is completely OK with the chaos of our home.

For our first lesson with her, which was over a year ago, I made sure the house was somewhat orderly.  I did the dishes, tried to move the stacks of homework and mail into a corner, and made sure the family room couch was cleared of toys.  This was so new to have our piano teacher come to us, and of course I wanted her to feel like a guest.

By the next lesson, my veil of "cleanliness" was already slipping.  The dishes were all over the counter and I apologized for the mess.  She insisted that she didn't mind and actually felt most comfortable in houses that were messy.  She said the really clean houses freaked her out a bit--they weren't normal.  I loved her even more.

And by the third lesson, my charade was done.  Not only did we have boxes stacked in the hallway as a result of trying to sort out the girls' clothes, and stacks of paper everywhere, but we now had the look of construction too.  We are finally done with our big remodel project (and she missed the phase where we had a huge hole in our house) but for the past year, she's seen a lot of projects in process around here.  In fact, she comes each week and says she looks forward to seeing what we are working on.

And now today, as she arrives for Grace's piano lesson, Emily and Sophie are in the midst of trying to fix the computer problem that Sophie created on Emily's computer.  They aren't arguing exactly, but our house of three girls is about as noisy as they come.  Our music teacher, as happy and positive as always, stands in the doorway, sees our chaos and says with a smile that she loves our noisy family.  She comes from a big family and says that she feels at home around families with at least three kids.  How could I love this girl more?  Not only does she share her knowledge and love of music to our kids, but she also manages to put a smile on my face as I look around and think yes, this is all good.  It truly is.