The Life Changing Magic of Kindermusik

I have been a Kindermusik teacher since I left my teaching job about 9 years ago.  Although I am not actively pursuing it as a business right now, I have offered occasional classes at my church for a few moms as well as for my grandchildren.  That has been such a blessing to me.  Whenever I am in the midst of a class every care in the world disappears for that period of time.  I am lost in the music and in the movement, the dancing and smiles and laughter.  It is just me and the children - and I cannot think of a better place to be "lost."  Sharing that joy with my grandbabies is especially wonderful.

It has been a few months since my last class - really since this summer.  Sometimes life just gets full and I guess that is what has been happening.  Yesterday my grandson Wyatt who just turned three and his baby sister Josie who is one were over for a bit.  Remembering how much Wyatt always loved Kindermusik I asked him if he wanted to go to Kindermusik again?  He looked at me and said, "Are you the girl who does Kindermusik?  Do you have your Kindermusik shirt?"  He did not say are the the nana, the grandma, the old lady - he said - the girl.  Why yes, Wyatt, I am the GIRL!  What made him ask - am I the girl - the Kindermusik shirt?  Is it kind of like a superman moment when Clark Kent changes into his superman shirt and becomes - superman?  Does Kindermusik magically make one young?  Hmmmmm - maybe.  I can't jump very high if at all anymore but I can hop and skip and roll and dance and shake and wiggle and crawl which I probably wouldn't do if I did not do Kindermusik.  I can pretend with the best of them - and who loves to pretend more than a three year old?  I can rock and snuggle and read and sing - all of the above are done in a 40 minute Kindermusik class.

This is not necessarily a post about Kindermusik, or something to boost my business since I don't have one right now.  It is more about being grateful for a gift - one I never really thought about until my "real" teaching job ended.  It is something God in His great love and goodness opened up for me during a difficult time, and something joyful and loving and positive I have been able to share with lots of little ones and their mommies and daddies and grandmas and grandmas.  And my own grandbabies.  And if makes me seem young and feel young - if it has kept me young at least in the eyes of a special three year old - then - here's to the best anti-aging remedy I know of.  And - here's to being 3!