Music is the soundtrack of our lives. - Dick Clark.
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I love music. It flows through my veins like coffee and
rejuvenates my soul. One good song on the radio can turn around my whole day. (Yes,
I actually still listen to the radio
in the car. After getting everyone locked and loaded in their car seats, it
feels like so much effort to queue up Pandora for a 15 minute drive to
preschool and I need something to
drown out the insanity coming from the back seat.) If I can’t even put forth
the effort to turn on Pandora in the car, you can imagine the amount of effort
I put into seeking out up and coming bands. (Hint: zero effort.) So I’ve found myself listening
to…Classics? Oldies? Anyway you put it I sound like I’m ancient. Let’s just
call my music collection vintage. It’s like wine. It gets
better with age.
So what might the vintage
soundtrack of my life sound like, you ask? Currently, my life revolves around
the exhilarating and yet exhausting task of taming my two little dare devils.
We get up early, we eat, we play, we laugh, we destroy, we sit in timeout, we
cry, we nap, we eat some more, we splash, we sleep and then we do it all over
again. Lather, rinse, repeat. I eat sleep and breathe parenting. So naturally,
the soundtrack of my life is about the madness, the chaos, the sleeplessness,
of parenting. Put on your dancing shoes, ladies!
After surviving the dinner rush, the tsunami that is bath
time, and then wrestling them into their jammies, I need a VERY big glass of
wine.
Where is my Mind – The Pixies
No seriously. Where is my mind? Maybe with my keys?
Crazy Train – Ozzy Osbourne
All aboard! This one is particularly awesome played at
maximum volume on the seventh hour of an eight hour car trip.
You Can’t Always Get What You Want - The
Rolling Stones
The seventeenth time my son asks me why he can’t have
candy for breakfast I usually just break into this song. One afternoon I caught
him singing it to himself in his room. For about 30 seconds, I won
at parenting.
It’s the End of the World as We Know it –
REM
If you’ve ever had a toddler… you’d know that running out
of goldfish is the end of the world as we know it. And pineapple with breakfast
(even though you LOVE pineapple.) And watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse when you
NEED Thomas the Train.
Don’t Stop Believing – Journey
This is such a feel good power ballad. Your child will eat their vegetables without
protest one day. Just don’t stop believing my friend.
We’re not Gonna Take it – Twisted Sister
Sometimes parents just have to make a stand. GO. TO.
SLEEP.
No Sleep ‘til Brooklyn – Beastie Boys
Sometimes children make a stand. And there’s no sleep
‘til Brooklyn.
This post was originally featured at Mom of the Year. For a less serious look at the world of parenting, meet Meredith.
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