So, more often than not people in my life don't burst into song and dance about in a choreographed number (though I've always wished they would). So that's not quite what I mean when I talk about the soundtrack of my life. As I'm sure most of you have experienced, there are songs that seem to immediately transport us back to a time and a place. Sometimes we can even recognize it while it's happening, probably in large part due to the fact that we choose to listen to said song over and over during said time and place because for some reason it just captures something of what we are experiencing that somehow isn't capturable in any other form. Right now I have two such songs:
"Count Your Blessings" by Irving Berlin, performed by Bing Crosby
"When You Dream" by the Barenaked Ladies
(If you are familiar with these songs you may notice they both have to do with sleep... he he...)
The first is sort of my song for me and DJ during this crazy-good-but-difficult time in our lives.
The second is my theme song for Olive. The first time I listened to it I was still in a fairly emotional place from the birth and pretty much balled my eyes out. Below I have added this song to a portion of the SEVEN MINUTE video of Olive waking up that we took the other day. (Yes, 7 minutes. This is not uncommon when we leave her to her own devices - definitely her father's daughter in that respect.)
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Where are the other 2 minutes and 22 seconds?
It was more of the same and too long for the song... I didn't want to deprive anyone of even one nanosecond of glorious Olive time, but I had to make an artistic choice... =)
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