Well, this evening, my Mom and I watched the live action, TheLittleMermaid:
As per usual, I was once again late to the party! I knew what to expect, because Facebook friends had written reviews when the movie first came out. My Mom asked me if I was going to eat dinner while I was watching the movie because I normally don’t watch new movies while I am eating dinner because I have to concentrate on both things but I can’t concentrate doing them both together.
I assured her that I KNOW the movie! I can’t count the number of times we would sing songs from this movie with both Shannon and Natalie growing up!!! Overall, both my Mom and I liked the movie but I must say that it did not hold the candle to the animated release in 1989 because that movie is my jam!!! 41 year old Jen cannot belt the songs out but she still knows all of the words!!!
I don’t think I first saw this video until 2021. But I have searched for it twice in the past week because I just need a “Feel Good Video!” and this one seems to fit the bill right now:
I heard John Legend singing this song in my head few days ago as I was on the verge of falling to sleep in the early hours of the morning. I remember that it was a duet, but I couldn’t remember who it was with.
I thought of that again today, what I hear is John Legend Saying “shoeyou a safe place to land” I just searched it, and the duet is with Sara Bareilles?! Of course it is!!! And here is the song:
I’ve been searching for this song for three days! Ever since I saw, The Secret: Dare to Dream.
I was trying to find a lyric I could search for to get the song and I wasn’t having any luck, so then I searched: “What song is the woman singing when Bray is fixing Miranda‘s roof?”
And low and behold:
I’ve decided that I really like that movie and my Mom hasn’t seen the whole thing through since the first time we watched it but I’m OK with putting that on. Repeat!
The other day, when I talked to Sean about my “Daddy” playlist, he told me that there were two songs that I was missing from that playlist. I was surprised and I asked him, “Which songs?” He simply said, “The Jetplane song.”
I gasped because I could not believe that I forgot that song! I searched for it as we were still talking on the phone. I found it and then put it into the playlist and let me ’splain ya about that song:
The song he was talking about is Peter Paul and Mary. Leaving on the Jet Plane. That song was a special song to my Parents when my Dad left for Vietnam. I have known that song since I was a child!!!
Sean knows that song because we lived with my Parents until Sean was three years old and I was in college. I graduated with my undergraduate degree on May 1, 2005. We moved out on our own on August 1, 2005.
I was studying to be a teacher and I read parenting magazines all of the time. I was MORE THAN AWARE of the importance of reading to my child!!! I read to him every night! Sometimes as many as three books! What I realize now is that I was so exhausted because MS was raging through my body that sometimes I could only read one book or sometimes two.
On those days, because Sean was still awake, I would ask him if he wanted to hear, “Grandfather, and Abuela’s song?” by asking that, if he agreed, I would sing Peter Paul, and Mary’s song, sometimes up to three times until Sean was asleep.
I could just lay in bed with my eyes closed and sing until Sean was asleep. I listened to that song tonight before I started writing and it brought me to tears! It brought me to tears because I no longer can sing. I don’t have enough strength to get enough air into my lungs to let it come out sounding good.
I cried about that tonight, and my Mom said to me when she saw me crying, and I told her that I can no longer sing, she said,”You are still Sean‘s mom” and I know that she is right but today, I kind of wish that I could still sing!:
I have written before how I shared a playlist with my oldest nephew, not too long ago. He asked me about a playlist that I made for my Dad. I made it for my Dad’s 55th birthday and I gave him 55 singles to commemorate the day. I did not think that in less than three months, he would be gone.
Right after I sent that to my nephew, I sent it to my son just so he would have it as well. Yesterday, he decided to tell me about myself, and he said that I shared that playlist with my nephew. Before he said anything more, I told him that I sent that playlist to him as well that same day, and he should look for it!
He told me to send it to him again so I did, but I told him that I added two Toby Keith songs for my Mom because we listened to Toby Keith a lot after my Dad died! Then I told Sean that I added two songs for me. Maroon 5 and U2.
He called me when he was driving home and he told me that he did not recognize the Maroon 5 song and he waited until Adam Levine started singing, and then he said, “I’ve heard that song 10 million times!” And I just responded with, “Because I played it 10 million times!”:
I received a lot of laughter and likes from this post because everyone who knows me knows that this song is my jam. I did get one comment though:
I laughed at it because my cousinT Shannon and I were in high school when I told her that I HATE the Bruce Springsteen song just as she told me that she hates the Wham! song! She LOVES the Bruin Springsteen song!
After we came to that conclusion, we made a pact to listen to it, at least once a Christmas for the other person! So Shan, this one’s for you!!!:
I watched 2 Netflix movies today that were COMPLETELY in line with my Christmas movie watching.
I first watched Jingle Jangle A Christmas Journey:
I didn’t see this one last year and it totally startles me that Forest Whitaker can sing?!!!
I accidentally put the video in twice, but I really liked watching it!
Then my Mom came to sit in the living room and we just let the movies play that were available on Netflix and we saw Holiday in the Vineyard and we watched that one too! It was really cute!:
But, the whole time I was watching these two holiday Netflix movies, my legs were spasming like crazy! Both of them! I could even feel it in my butt. I just have to ride out the spasm.
It wasn’t until my Mom was ready to go to sleep that she asked me what that shaking was as she sat next to me. It was my legs! They were shaking like crazy because I was having a spasm. But with my new foot pedals, my feet don’t jerk completely off of the foot pedal anymore! It kind of makes me think of this song that my Mom absolutely loves but my chair is really Smooth with all my adjustments!!!
