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sing and the world sings with you
By heather | November 8, 2007
A post by alejna over at collecting tokens reminded me that it’s been a while since I had a good cry to a Sandra Boynton song. (Sing and sway: Oh chocolate chip cookies, so high on the shelf – I’m not tall enough, to reach you myself…)
No no no, not that one. Back when Alex was immobile and helpless and didn’t look me in the eyes right before skull bashing my nose, I used to lay on the floor with him under the gymini and put on Evermore from the Dog Train album. He would watch me out of the corner of his eye while I sang the first verse, then my voice would tremble. By the time we got to the chorus I was all out sobbing.
Then I would play it again. And again. And finally with the drama of a soap queen I would drag myself up off the floor and shuffle off to find some tissues.
The last time I did this was back at the beginning of the summer. I was in the kitchen making baby food and decided I needed some baby love right then and there. I put on the carrots to steam and set the timer. Then I went into the living room, laid down on the floor, started playing Dog Train and decided I needed me a good cry. So skip to Evermore, sing, cry, repeat.
Somewhere in there underneath the sounds of me belting out the lyrics the timer went off. I didn’t hear it. The carrots kept steaming. Until there was no water left. The carrots started smoking. The smoke alarm went off. And then everyone was crying. And my pan melted. Yeah.
It takes a good man to put up with me. And also to authorize buying new pots and pans after I systematically burned up every last pan in the old set.
Under the gymini – pre cry…
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September 16th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
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