So, there's a slight chance that I may have become slightly
addicted to Facebook over the past year at home. While I don't spend every
waking moment on the social media giant, I definitely am spending more time
than I used to. I do see the reason why that is the case though. It's a way to
just remind myself that there are other things happening to other people
outside my four walls. Not only that, but as Ellie's now a year old, some cool
memories have started popping up via the "On This Day" feature. In
fact today was one of those days exactly.
Ok, I should be forward with the fact that I am not, nor
have I ever claimed to be, a Dishwalla fan. In fact, if you asked me to name
another song outside of 'Counting Blue Cars', there's absolutely no way I could
ever do it. If my memory isn't failing me, the early months of Ellie's life
were filled with lots and lots of screaming. Screaming so piercing in nature
that I still don't hear out of my left ear nearly as well as I did before her
birth. Congrats baby, your tiny lungs did what heavy machinery and front rows
at concerts couldn't do.
In those days of epic desperation, it didn't take us long to
figure out music was a calming influence on this tiny, screaming being who was
now a part of our lives. 'The Show', '3 Rounds and a Sound', 'Oceans', 'Twenty
Four', 'Between the Raindrops'. I feel like I heard each of those songs so often that they will forever
be engrained in my memory. However, if I had to tell you why I decided to play
Dishwalla for the baby one year ago, I could never come up with a legitimate
reason. My best guess is that we were firing up our pitiful dishwasher for a
cleaning cycle.
Now, as I think about this post a year after the fact, I
kind of find myself missing the music we heard all too much. You see, I instead
find myself now listening to nursery rhymes as I write this with Ellie happily
dancing and clapping in front of the radio. There's no reality in which the
Bose Wave Music Player was developed for this kind of activity.
In all reality, I know Ellie really enjoys it but I am a
little concerned about my sanity. As I stood in the kitchen earlier doing the
dishes, I actually found myself bobbing in tune to the rousing choruses of 'Old
MacDonald Had a Farm', 'Peanut Sat on a Railroad Track', and 'Itsy Bitsy
Spider'. Not just that, but I was legitimately doing the 'Hokey Pokey' as it
played in the background.
I'm sure that Ellie will eventually tire of these songs just
as she tired of the grouping that proceeded them. Until then, the beat in my
head is destined to be limited to the nursery rhyme albums she has fallen in
love with while I'm pining away for the days of Dishwalla and their one good
song. #DaddyWrite
P.S. - Anyone have any great suggestions for kid songs for
the baby that won't zap me of my sanity with great swiftness?
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