I’ve spent a lot time since May scanning archived pictures in old photographs, a job I’ve put off for years. The above picture I originally captured with my old Nikon 35mm point n’ shoot from 1995. We were spending the weekend with DH’s parents in southern WV, a place we loved to visit time and time again. The kids had the best fun in the big level front yard playing in these old wagons. The vintage Western Flyer Rocket wagon belonged to DH when he was a boy. Thankfully, we were able to bring this home after his dad passed. The other one wagon, my in-laws bought after the children came into the picture, mostly for their enjoyment and I think they used it to transport stuff around on their property. Looking at old pictures really do the soul good, don’t you think?
This week’s Monday’s Mewsic Moves Me theme, our honorary co-hostess is honoring her sister since it’s her birth month and requested that we picks songs relating to family & siblings. I celebrated Mothers and Fathers in recent months, so I’m going to focus on my immediate family – kids and hubby to build my playlist. Hit play to enjoy my collection of songs honoring my family.
My Family & Sibling playlist include these songs:
- I’m Already There ~Lonestar This song reminds me of the days when DH worked hundreds of miles away from home and how lonely we all were to be separated.
- You’re Gonna Miss This ~Trace Adkins Every kid wants to grow up yesterday. I wished that wish, so did our kids, and I’m sure our LA will do the same but the lyrics Trace sings are true.
- Love Can Build a Bridge ~Westlife Family life is often filled with more downs than ups and replacing anger with love is essential to connecting again. Love heals relationships!
- You’ll Always Be My Baby ~Sara Evans No matter how old or how big my children get they will forever be my babies.
- Come Some Rainy Day ~Wynonna Judd I dedicate to my baby!
- Child of My Child (A Grandparent’s Prayer)~Jennifer Gaffney This playlist wouldn’t be complete without a special song for my LA. 😘
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This month’s co-hostess is Stacy Uncorked
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DISCLOSURE…this is a mewsic linky party, which means all participates are sharing songs that one can listen to from YouTube or Vimeo and a not a post about mewsic or mewsicians. Failure to meet this basic guideline puts your URL in danger of being removed or labeled – NO MUSIC.
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Thanks for sharing the dance floor with me. I hope you enjoyed the party. I’ll be back mid-week to join other Wordless Wednesday communities and I’ll also have up this week’s art challenge illustration, so do come back for the fun. Have a boogietastic day, my darlings! X💋X💋, Cathy
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“I’m Already There” brought the tears but that was just the warmup. “You’ll Always Be My Baby” had me crying like a baby, for sure. OK, OK, drying my tears, glad I had a tissue in my shorts, and enjoyed this set of songs all new to me.
Kids provide the most awesome “Awww” moments when they are just being kids.
Great playlist this morning. I think all of us can relate to the these songs. Trace Adkins reminds us that our youth is fleeting and we will some day look back on our high school years with great fondness. Life is fleeting. It seems like yesterday that our grandchildren were playing t-ball, soccer, and dance lessons. Now, one is married, two are in college and the youngest is a junior in high school. Hold them close while you can. Make memories at every opportunity and pour yourself into your children and grandchildren so you can look back one day and have a multitude of good times to remember. Have a blessed week.
Driller,
I tried holding on to mine while they were small but the years were still ripped right out of my grasp. All three are now on their own. My oldest and youngest are in town and the middle one lives more than 1000 miles from home. It doesn’t matter if they are here or there, distance feels like a million miles away sometimes. Thanks for visiting, my friend. Have a good day!
Great selection of mewsic, Cathy, and I love the photo! Have a boogietastic week ahead!
Thanks, Eugenia! You have a good week, too!
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Great post! So many good things to see. THank you for sharing and always being so consistent. HUGS across the miles XO
Anne,
Ahh, you’re sweet! I’m glad you found time to stop by this week, my dear. I’ll swing over to visit you in a few.;)
Absolutely amazing girlfriend. Totally marvelous set. You sure know how to pick them. You can hear the happiness in this woman’s voice. Truly she’s singing to her children and you can hear the love. Great tunes and great sentiment!
Marie,
Are you feeling better? I hope that shot has kicked in some for you. Thanks for dropping by to sample my songs. I love my family soooo much! I hope they know it. 😉 Take care, Sweetie!
Love your photos and words and music!
Thanks, Mimi!
Such a beautiful photo. Thanks for sharing these great songs.
Patrick,
Any time, my friend. So, glad you got to come by to listen to my playlist.
Sweet photo of your kids. Great song choices- I love You’re Gonna Miss This. XO
Thanks for joining me on the dance floor, Ellen. I miss my children being small. If only I could have one more day of them being just like they were in this photo? sigh Gone are those days! 🙁 Oh well…I do have more have time to do the things I couldn’t while being a full-time mommy. 🙂 lol
What can I say? Great set!
John,
I’m happy you joined me on the dance floor, my friend. Thanks for popping by!
sweet photos and sweet memories!
Kathe,
I love looking at old photos of our kiddies! The memories locked away with each one are priceless!!
Very touching songs, CK, we have goosebumps…yes, mew too, because these songs touched our hearts and your photographs too. We love to look at all pictures and the memories are so purrecious, well, not all of them, but the most really are 😀 CK, what does it mean to focus on your LA? We only know Los Angeles, but I think that’s not what it’s meant. That quote is very catchy! Thanks for this wonderful dance. Swinging Pawkisses for a Happy Monday🐾😽💞
Binky,
LA is short for my Little Angelina. 🙂 DH referred to her as LA on night and I thought that was stinking cute, don’t you agree? Thanks for joining me on the dance floor, little furriend. I’m heading over to see you now! 😉
Absolutely cute, CK. Thanks for explaining. I give you an Extra Pawkiss for it🐾😽💞
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Gramma had over 1000 slides from way back but they were starting to go bad with time. She hired the teenage grandkids to scan them all in as jpg files and they did it. Now we have all the slides digitized. We never want to lose precious photo memories.
Oooh, I hadn’t thought about slides going bad. I need to tell DH to check his old archived slides. That’s all he used to shoot in the early 80s. I hope they haven’t disintegrated. That would be horrible. Thanks for dropping by for a little mewsic today. 😉
The photo is just too adorable. And you picked some very nice songs.
Thanks, Robin! I’m glad you joined me for this dance. 🙂
What a beautiful family and I love that spark!
Beautiful photos and some nice tunes there!
That really is a sweet photo and a wonderful playlist too! I hope you have a fabulous week.
Thanks for stopping by this morning, Brian! I’m glad you enjoyed the mewsic. Have a pawwwsome day, little furriend!
Hi Cathy
What a great set to dedicate to your family. When we’re young, we don’t realize just how important our siblings are. Now that we’re older, the light shines a little brighter and we’re able to see that importance. At least that’s the way it’s been for me. Have a great week, and hopefully I’ll see you in my comments a few more times this week 🙂
Mary,
We do not realize the value of a family until it’s too late all too often. My brother died way too young at the age of 40. I miss him so much! Thankfully, my younger sister is still with me as are my parents. I am blessed. The thing with getting older you also learn the things that bothered you when you were younger diminishes and isn’t important as the love. I find that good memories over shadow the bad with each passing year. Thanks for joining me on the dance floor, darlin’!
Awww on your babies. Such a sweet shot. Love your black and white shot too.
I love the playlist and I love I’m Already There. Always makes me tear up.
Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Awww Monday and week. Love and hugs. ♥
Sandee,
The pix, DD#1 sent to me and I used Pixelmator to convert it o B&W with a soft filter effect. 🙂
Oh yeah, “I’m Already There” makes me tear up, too. I can hardly listen to it without thinking of the time DH was so far from home. That was a hard period for us but we got through it.
Have an awwwesome Monday, my dear!
Hi, Cathy!
Happy Aww-some 4M Monday, dear friend!
That certainly is an awww inspiring picture of your kiddos, especially since one of the wagons once belonged to DH. I am happy to know you salvaged that wagon when DH’s dad passed away and brought it home, perhaps for Angelina to use.
I enjoyed your set of songs devoted to family and children. “I’m Already There” is a real tear-jerker, especially combined with the video showing pictures of military families. As you implied, it is one of those songs that applies to families enduring separation for any number of reasons. The Trace Adkins song “You’re Gonna Miss This” tells the truth about young people who typically yearn for their childhood and adolescent years to be over so that they can enter the adult world. Looking back, I was never eager to leave my youth behind, and I am still holding onto it for dear life. I certainly agree with the Westlife song “Love Can Build a Bridge.” Love is the answer. If you keep an open mind and come from love and understanding, you can find your way back home. I am appreciating these country story songs as I proceed through your block. Sara Evans is a new to me artist, a beautiful woman with a soulful country vocal style. “You’ll Always Be My Baby” reminds us that when a child goes astray and falls down, a loving parent is always there to offer forgiveness and a hug. Wynonna’s “Come Some Rainy Day” is another song that tugs at the heart. It tells about the games of youth and also about a special person who was once close and is now departed through death, marital separation or other circumstance, and sorely missed.
We move on
And put those dreams away
Thinking that we’ll find them
Come some rainy day
“Child of My Child (A Grandparent’s Prayer)” is a charming song, dispensing to a young person a grandparent’s wisdom and wishes for a happy and successful life. I can imagine those words written in a letter by an elderly person with instructions that it be given to their grandchild in the event of the elder’s death.
Thanks for the mewiscal education this morning, dear friend Cathy. I wish you a tunetastic Monday and invite you to come rock with me tomorrow morning at Shady’s Place when Daisy Skye Johnson aka “Quake” returns to host a preview of her new SPMM radio show!
Tom,
As we know, it’s only until we’re older that we realized that we wished our days away. That’s something each person must learn for oneself. Wouldn’t it be grand if kids heeded the warnings of their elder? Each song in my set as you noted are reasons why I picked each one. Family relations are a mix bag of emotions – tenderness, anger, love, regrets, joy,…but in the end we always have hope for life’s best for those we love no matter what’s the current status is because even when it feels like things are falling apart, love remains. Sometimes, we just have to be reminded of it. Thanks for dropping by today, my friend. Have a joyful week!