I am Grateful for music!

I don't know if you have noticed my list to the right of all the things I'm grateful for. Well I just added another.....Music. What would life be without music. Everybody enjoys it. I know people who always have a tune in their heads and I've gone to school with people who dreamed of being on Broadway and would sing their way through life. Even my husband, as he drifts of to sleep, starts tapping his foot and moving his fingers to the silent beat in his head. (always makes me laugh, that's a musician for you) I was never one of these people but music is still something I don't want to live without. I love the little things in life and music seems to be part of those little things sometimes. Like when your really having a bad day and all of the sudden you hear an up beat song and it puts a smile on your face and you just have to move and dance. Like this song for me..... SUDDENLY I SEE, from KT Tunstall.

Or songs that empower you. Like DARE YOU TO MOVE from Switchfoot.

Switchfoot has a lot of songs like this but I manly like them because Don likes them and we have been listening to them for years. We've gone to a few of their concerts and the songs hold a lot of different memories. Another thing I love about music. Everywhere we've lived we have music to go with it. On road trips we like to pull out our CD collection and reminisce about all the songs and where we lived when it first came out. Don and I have known each other close to 20 years now so we have quite a collection. This is one of my favorite things to do.We also like to watch TV together. One of our favorites is Scrubs on NBC now (I think) Anyway this song HOW TO SAVE A LIFE from the Frey is on one of our favorite episodes. And when I hear it, it will always remind me of my husband and the fun we have being together watching simple TV. Oh how I miss this when he's gone. That feeling I don't ever want to forget. Also music that I hear when I was growing up like the whole JELLYFISH album. So many memories with cousins and family road trips. Thank you Natalie for finding them again.

When a song comes along that fits your life perfectly in that moment, It's magic. This happened to me a while back when I attended Time out for Woman. Michael McLean sang a song called Lullaby for me. The song to me was very moving. It was a long summer without my husband and every word he sang rang true and I couldn't stop crying. It explained my feelings so well. May be you have felt this way before.

This hasn't been a day that I would call my best.

I'd give myself a failing grade if this had been a test

I did not comfort you when you were all alone

I was to busy crying through some problems of my own

Today I have not been the Mom you needed me to be

And tonight I wish that you could sing a lullaby for me

I'm glad that you can sleep. I wish that I could too

I'm sorry that today I wasn't really there for you

I must have slipped away to some far distant land

Where I'm the child who cries until her mother takes her hand

Tomorrow I'll reclaim my proper place

I'll tuck you in and gently kiss your face

I'll do the things a mom's supposed to do

And I'll know what those things should be

Cause now I need them too

This hasn't been a day that I want to repeat

I'm sorry I could only say I'm sorry while you sleep

Today I have not been the mom you needed me to be

And tonight I wish that you could sing

A lullaby for me

Tonight I need someone to sing

A lullaby for me

And then he started playing the hymn

("Oh Savior stay this night with me, behold tis eventide")

And even now I get teary eyed because it felt so real to me. I left there feeling understood and loved. Yes, I had my days where I wasn't exactly the Mom they needed. But it was ok. I'm not alone in this feeling. What a wonderful blessing to have this song to remind me of this. I'm so grateful.

This song LUCKY from Jason Mraz was another that truly hit home for me. And I played it over and over again singing my heart out with mixed emotions of love and heart ache. I'm so lucky to be in love with my best friend but I missed him because he was across the ocean like the song says. And it has become our NEW song. Every word fit the situation. And I love it when that happens.

COME HOME By One Republic was a hard one to get through. Just after he left I went to a One Republic concert with a good friend of mine and he started this song with an explanation that he wrote this for a friend who's other half is in the desert fighting in this crazy war. And when he started to sing he was singing just to me. And it took everything i had not to loose it right there. I would later play it over and over singing (more like pleading) the chorus "come home Come home." I know it sounds so sad but it did bring me comfort. And Church music always brings me comfort. And it calms me more then any other kind of music can. Sometimes when I'm rushing here and there and the kids are fighting and whining I turn my church music on and it calms me. And I am sane again. The power of music has entered my life, yet again. And it consumes me. I hope you enjoy my play list. There are some really good tunes in there. Some you could truly be grateful for. I know I am.