Music Makes Our World Go Round

Are your memories triggered by anything special?

Music, perhaps?

I love music.  My mom instilled a love of music in all of us.  She couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket, but she loved music, and made sure we did, as well.

So many milestones are marked with music…

I’m glad both ThatManILove and I passed our love of music on to our sons. 

Elder Son will send me a text, like this one….and it will trigger a memory of us, driving down the road and singing.

Name that tune.  His memory for lyrics slay me.  He's amazing.

I won’t ever forget our music-infused road miles.  I treasure those moments.

As a blended family, we've enjoyed some cool music moments as adults - like traveling to Lenox, MA for a James Taylor concert.  Traveling to Phoenix, AZ, for a Travis Tritt/Marty Stuart acoustic concert at the Centennial Theatre.

Beautiful times with our young men.

I wouldn't ever trade for those times, and I'll treasure them forever.

More Munchkins!

It’s been crazy around here, lately.  We have one engineering intern, Tunde, living with us for the summer, and another, Ted, has been landing here from time to time.  He’ll be here Sunday and stay for a couple of weeks until he can get into the college dorms or I can find him a summer-time home.

People here in Midland are so giving, we’ll have no trouble finding him a home.  We all love helping our young people in this industry!

These guys are so funny and caring, they have already crept into our hearts...so now, we’ll gain two more munchkins.  I can’t wait to meet their parents - they must be pretty special people to have raised these two young men.

We have another engineer, Naya, that calls us her Midland mom and dad. We’ve known her for a little bit over a year.  We love that girl, she makes us laugh!  She’ll just come over and hang out, no matter what we are doing, she’s a part of it.  At Thanksgiving, her parents came in, and treated us to a “German Thanksgiving meal”.  It was a blast, and so good - and it was fun to see a part of both parents in this sweet young lady.  Her mom would laugh, and I’d think - “There’s our girl!” - and her dad would say something, and I’d think - “Hmmm...that’s where she gets that brain.”  It’s fun when you know someone and you are blessed to meet their parental units!  (It’s a good thing y’all don’t know my parents, you’d say, “Hmmm.  Was she hatched?”  It’s okay - just continue to ponder, my gentle twisted readers.)  And man, can Naya cook~she puts Emeril to shame!  She'll call and say, "I'm bringing salmon, and I'm going to cook, okay?"  

Anyway, all this activity just adds to the “it’s never boring around here” portion of our lives.

A couple of weeks ago, I thought out loud, “I’ve got to get those guitars to the shop before we go on vacation so maybe ThatManILove will take one with us.”

Yesterday, Tunde reminded me, and he grabbed them and took them to the shop for us. What a neat thing to do!  And he’s already got them back at the house, and we put one in TMIL’s arms last night.  

I would post videos of how last night turned into James Taylor/Jimmy Buffett-ville, but, no.

ThatManILove would kill me.

Music Helps Make Our World Go Round

Someday soon, we’ll be going on vacation.  We’re going fishing. In Alaska.

I’m so excited!

We’ll be staying in a cabin.  Just the two of us.  We haven’t gone anywhere by ourselves in a while.  We’re looking forward to it.

Tonight, though, I was working on my computer and glanced around the room.  My eyes landed on TMIL’s guitar.

And I had my first original thought in a while:  “Wonder if I might talk him into taking it with us?”

The man is amazing on guitar, and singing as well.  He even wrote me a song for our wedding, oh, yes, he did.  And we should have some time for music, I hope.  That guitar paved a lot of the road to our love.  Music is such a part of our lives.  I don’t want to lose that...

First, I’ll have to take it in to our guitar guru and get the strings changed.

I could do that tomorrow...yup, I think I will.