Personal Lulabies

Here I am, just guess by looking at the time what I am doing....yes, sitting on Jakes bed, waiting for my "babies" to fall asleep. I think that in just a few months, I will not be able to use lappy to do this, but more so that I will have Paige attached to me singing to the three of them for naptime.

I have always enjoyed singing and once I got over my self centered egotistical teenager/young adult attitude toward my natural ability to memorize, hear and master tunes, I slowly developed my own singing habits and used what I had learned in school, I eventually got over myself and starting singing only to the Lord or out loud when a good song comes on. BUT, one thing I have always enjoyed is giving each kid a lullaby.

When I was pregnant with Hope, for my 21st birthday Susan gave me video, The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. This movie is close to me, because I remember it being one of the shows that I waited for after my bath on Sunday nights while my mother brushed my hair and we watched The Disney Sunday Movie. I love the simplicity of the characters and the innocence of a child with a HUGE imagination who comes up with the idea of a Hundred Acre Woods. I was SO jealous of Christopher Robin because he had his special place to go with his boots and his blue balloon. When I heard for the first time as an adult, with raging pregnant hormones Winnie the Pooh asking CR, "I wonder if you've got such a thing, as a balloon about you?" a tear welled in my eye as I heard the first of my children's lullaby take shape in my heart. Taking the balloon he begins to softly sing, "I'm Just a Little Black Raincloud." When Hope was born, she was a little white raincloud, bundled in her crocheted Grandma blankie and would fall asleep attached to me as I sang the sweet words of Winnie the Pooh's lovely song.

When Austin was born, he was a swaddle me, sing to me, rock, bounce, sway me to sleep baby. His lulaby is Mary Poppins' wonderful, "Stay Awake" in which she soothes the children to sleep by simply saying, "you're not sleepy as you seem, stay awake, don't nod and dream."

Sam's Song is from Jr Asparagus' Mom, saying, "Think of me everyday, hold tight to what I say, and I'll be close to you even from far away, know that wherever you are, it is never to far, if you think of me, I'll be with you...."

The twins have all three songs that I have been singing to them for a week but somehow they did not have their own. Funny thing is, they are the first ones to acutually say to me, "Sing' songs mum." I love the honor of having a captive audience to each of my kids but the best honor of all is the tiny request of my own flesh and blood requesting to be lulled to sleep, with my singing to them.

Oh look, they are sleeping. Thanks for "listening".