I did it again this morning.  Given that this is the third time, I must sit up and take notice of the fact that it’s a pattern.  Not a pattern that I am proud of, but one that, as a music lover and a mother, I must acknowledge.

I could blame it on a frantic off-to-school morning of looking for socks and lost yoga mats, or rationalize by saying that it’s the end of a long week. 

But nothing can change the fact that, (not for the first time), I yelled these words at my daughter:  “Turn that music DOWN!  It is TOO LOUD!” 

It’s official:  January 2011, the month that I became old.