An Everlasting Love
This weekend has been especially busy. On Friday, we drove to my parents’ place in southwestern Virginia for an overnight visit. This is the first time we’ve been back since the government shut down. It was great to see them! On our way home yesterday, we stopped by to visit DH’s cousin, who we haven’t seen in decades, and wife. It great catching up!
Thanks for joining me for the Sunday edition of Monday’s Music Moves Me. This month marks my 12th blogoversary. The time has gone by fast but quicker still is our upcoming 43rd wedding anniversary. I don’t know where the days went let along the years. The first theme for June is freedom of music choice week which allows me to share some song picks mirroring my hearts’ sentiment right now.
This is a music linky party. Your co-hostess are Stacy, Alana, and Me. Every other week we have a suggested music theme (see weekly prompts here) to build your song set around and all participants share YouTube or Vimeo videos for our music enthusiasts. Failure to meet this basic guideline puts your URL in danger of being removed or labeled – NO MUSIC.
In case you missed the announcement Marie, the brain child, felt the need to step down to tend to her health needs and has asked that I take over for her. You will always have a place when you’re ready to come back, my friend!
Today, we have dinner plans with our children and their families to celebrate our upcoming anniversary later in the week. Our anniversary is this coming Thursday. It’s also my sister’s birthday. I will close with a song that released the year she was born. The song hit the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks the summer of 1970, Everything is Beautiful by Ray Stevens!
You’ll always be beautiful to me, little sis. Happy Birthday! This is CAAC signing off, have a boogietastic week!
38 Comments
Little Wandering Wren
Congratulations Cathy, 12 years blogging and 43 years if wedding bliss, both testament to your enduring loves! It lovely that you could enjoy some family reunions this week too.
Have a happy day!
Wren x
Cathy Kennedy
Wren,
I told DH I’m looking forward to the next 43 years with him. He said, “I don’t know about that, maybe 42.” He cracks me up!
Natasha
Happy Blogiversary too. You make us smile always with your fabulous posts love. Grateful for you and Curious Cathy. xoxoxox
Natasha
Happy anniversary wishes and loads of cheer on your special day. Celebrate in style and live it up darling.
All teh music you shared are my personal favourites.
I added my link as it has a song, though spiritual and a chant. 🙂
Love the cutie patootie otters. <3
have a lovely year ahead with DH sweetheart and I’m so glad you got to catch up with familia too.
Biggest hugs and pls tell Marie I love her and i send healing prayers for her.
https://natashamusing.com/2022/06/i-forgive-and-flow-natasha-musing/
Cathy Kennedy
Natasha,
You’re welcome to join the party anytime. Thank you for anniversary wishes, my dear.
Natasha
♥️✨🌟🧚🏻♀️🌻🦄🤗🥰🤩
csuhpat1
Happy blogoversary. Great music and thanks for hosting this great party.
Cathy Kennedy
Thank you, Patrick! I’m happy you joined the party.
Nicole/DVArtist
Congratulations my friend. 12th blogland and 43 anniversary. You have much to be proud of.
Debbie D.
Happy 12th Blogiversary and 43rd Wedding Anniversary, Cathy! 🎉 It’s great that you can spend more time with your family, post-pandemic. Happy Birthday to your sister as well. Such lovely, appropriate tunes! 🙂
Cathy Kennedy
Debbie,
The government shut downs took a lot from us, lost time with the ones we love. We can never get that back. It’s time for us to make the most of every second while we can because we don’t know what tomorrow holds. Right now, I’m enjoying it with DH. Thankfully blessed to share it with my husband, my lover, and best friend. He means the world to me!
Ms. Donyarific
Everything is beautiful indeed! I do remember that song from my childhood. My uncle used to have 45 rpm vinyl record of it. It does bring back lovely memories! Thanks for hosting 4M this week. Happy Anniversary and congratulations on your blogversary!
Cathy Kennedy
Vinyl recordings were very popular when I was kid. I had some music on 8-track tape. That media format really didn’t stay around too long and thankfully not. It was so horrible when the tape got caught in the player. Sometimes, it was salvageable. The tape would be crinkled up but surprisingly it played. I prefer to stream music today. It’s easier and I don’t have to worry about keeping up with physical media.
My GBGV Life
My mom was just a kid in 1970, but she remembers that song, Everything is Beautiful, and she sometimes still sings it when it pops into her mind. Have a great week!
Cathy Kennedy
Old songs…parts will pop in my noggin’ frequently and I can’t help myself but to sing out loud. Music is good for the soul!
DrillerAA
Well, that must might be the number one Awwww….some photo of the day.
We have several things in common. I am almost positive that this is my twelfth orbit around the blogosphere. I started out in blogger as “BrainFreeze”. I moved to WordPress a few years back.
My wife and I celebrated our 48th anniversary last month. Yep, I have no idea where the time goes. One granddaughter is married, one is in grad school, one will be a college junior, and the grandson just graduated high school! How did that happen! I just know I like my music better than my grandcrew’s music, although they do appreciate the golden oldies. Have a blessed week and keep dancin’. It’s good for the soul.
Cathy Kennedy
I like my music better than the younger generations music, too. Today’s musicians are no where in the same league as artists of yesterday. We certainly do share these similarities and as you know my maiden name is one you’re very familiar with. Wouldn’t it be really cool to find out that we’re related? 🙂
messymimi's meanderings
Awww! On those otters and on your anniversaries. Have a great month!
Cathy Kennedy
Thanks, Mimi! Every anniversary is sweeter than the one before. I’m blessed!
Eugenia
Happy Anniversary and Happy Blogoversary! 🥳
Cathy Kennedy
Thanks Eugenia!
Eugenia
Most welcome, Cathy!
15andmeowing
I am glad you got to see you folks. Happy Blogoversary and Happy Anniversary!! Nice music choices. XO
Cathy Kennedy
Thanks, Ellen! It was nice to get away like that even if it was just for the night but more importantly seeing my parents. I sure have missed them.
Create With Joy
Congrats on reaching all of these milestones in your life Cathy! I’m so happy you got to visit with family this week. Great song picks! I don’t see the linky but you all are invited to join us for Inspire Me Monday at Create With Joy and share your musical picks here: https://www.create-with-joy.com/2022/06/inspire-me-monday-week-542.html
Have a wonderful week! 🙂
Cathy Kennedy
I’m sorry about the linky glitch earlier in the week and I apologize for not adding your direct link but I see that you did. It’s just been one of those weeks. 🙂
Alana Mautone (@RamblinGarden)
I hope you had a wonderful wonderful weekend full of joy. You picked a lovely playlist and the highlights, for me, were “We’ve Only Just Begun” and “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)”.. What a tragic life Karen Carpenter experienced, but what an amazing voice she had. Natalie Cole also died before her time.Their beauty lives on in ther music. Alana ramblinwitham
Cathy Kennedy
Alana,
I sometimes forget Natalie Cole has passed until something clicks. Thankfully, we can continue to enjoy Natalie and Karen’s lovely voices through the music they left behind.
John Holton
For the umpteenth time: Karen Carpenter had the voice of an angel…
Cathy Kennedy
John,
Karen Carpenter had a beautiful voice!
Brian
Love those sweetie! I’m glad you had a fun trip and a good visit.
Cathy Kennedy
Brian,
It was wonderful! Not a lot has changed except to see the age in my parents, as well as everyone. My oldest niece’s oldest son just turned 20. Good grief, how did that happen? lol
Arlee Bird
Nice that you all were able to get away for a while. Congratulations on your upcoming anniversary. Impressive!
Arlee Bird
Tossing It Out
Cathy Kennedy
Lee,
The weekend was too short. I’m looking forward to seeing my folks again before the summer disappears. Thanks for the warm wishes for our anniversary!
Sandee
Awww on the paw holding cutie pies. So precious.
I’m happy you visited your family. Nothing better.
Love your love playlist. You made me smile.
♪♫Happy Anniversary to you,♪♫
♪♫Happy Anniversary to you,♪♫
♪♫Happy Anniversary Dear Cathy and DH, ♪♫
♪♫Happy Anniversary to you.♪♫
Happy Birthday to your sister.
Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous day and week, Cathy. Love and hugs. ♥
Cathy Kennedy
Sandee,
As evident by my late response, you might have guessed I’ve been busy. At this point I partly wish I could blame it on being lazy but I’ve been anything other than that! Whew, I need some time down! Thanks for the lovely anniversary sentiments. I hope this weekend that we can have a few quiet moments to do nothing other than savvy the bliss of one another’s company over a special meal that I prepared a little each day to make the task easier. Oh well, tally-hoe!
Thomas Anderson
Hi, Cathy!
Happy Paw-some 4M Monday on Sunday, dear friend! I hope you and DH had a great week and weekend so far, and that you are enjoying your less hectic blogging pace.
Awww… I just wanna smooch those cute little otters, but they’d probably bite my nose if I tried.
Congratulations on reaching the 12 year milestone in your blogging journey, dear friend, and on your 43rd wedding anniversary! For me, this is also an important month. It has now been a full 30 years since I’ve had a drink of alcohol, a drug or a cigarette. Clean and sober is the only way to fly.
I enjoyed your salute to everlasting love (yours and DH’s). My ears smiled as the English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys covered “Baby, I’m Yours,” a boomer biggie originally waxed by Barbara Lewis, one of the most important songs on the soundtrack of my youth. The band does the song justice. “Baby, I’m Yours” was one of two cover songs released on the B side of the Arctic Monkeys’ 2006 single “Leave Before the Lights Come On” which went top 5 in the UK, all the way to #1 in Scotland and #2 in Canada. Karen Carpenter’s voice was stunning in its purity and clarity, and I enjoyed watching her perform one of her duo act’s biggest hits, “We’ve Only Just Begun,” lyrics by Paul Williams, a songwriter who will soon be age 82. I mention Paul because he appeared as an actor in one of my favorite movies, the gritty 1966 drama The Chase, starring Marlon Brando, Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. Surely the Diana Ross – Lionel Richie song “Endless Love” is one of the greatest duet pairings ever. Their hit love ballad was a favorite of Mrs. Shady #1. I appreciated the feeling and sincerity in Clint Black’s performance of “When I Said I Do,” a song that I’m sure is a favorite of couples everywhere and ideal for use as a wedding song and to play on anniversaries. “This Will Be” is one of my faves by Natalie Cole who died too young at age 65 on the last day of the year 2015.
I hope you enjoy your anniversary dinner party with your children (and hopefully LA). I’ll be thinking about you on Thursday as you mark the actual day that you and DH were married. Happy birthday to your sister! Yessum, Ray Stevens was at the peak of his career in 1970 when your sis was born. It was refreshing to hear Ray do an uplifting, serious song after releasing a string of goofy novelty hits during the 60s.
So many exciting things going on in your life, Cathy. Can you see how easily the time gets filled and how busy you are even when you are on a scaled-back blogging schedule? Once again, happy 12 year blogiversary and happy 43rd wedding anniversary to you and your prince charming, DH. Please hug and smooch LA today and have a safe and happy week, dear friend Cathy!
Cathy Kennedy
Tom,
Congratulations, my friend on your 30 years of sobriety! Not having personal experience with such addictions, I can only imagine the struggle it was to put these vices away for good and I know it’s not an easy thing to keep pushed down as there’s always a trigger of some sort that causes ones’ demons to rear its ugly head. We indeed had a lovely anniversary dinner with our children. Unfortunately, DD#1’s fella and DS’s gal were unable to be a part of the festivities but it was great fun to share the moment with our son, daughter, and precious LA. Little children are so sweet. She reminds me so much of her mama at that age.
I really would like to see Ray Stevens in concert. He has a music/dinner theatre in Nashville and I’d really like to book the event sometime soon but I’m not sure if we’ll get a chance this year. Home repairs, vacation planning, … has us pretty swamped.
Thanks for joining me on the dance floor, my friend. Have a boogietastic week!