A father like that

I am a very lucky women.  My whole life I have been surrounded by good men who are very good fathers.  Starting with my own dad.  He has always been there for me and continues to be.  He had four daughters, no sons.  I was the oldest and I guess I got to be his "buddy" a lot of guy stuff I know I learned from my dad.  I can't say I enjoyed it all but I guess it made me a little tougher than I would have been.  The next very amazing father I know is my husband Dennis.  I am so grateful to have him as a partner in parenthood.  Like I said I was the oldest of four girls, I have been blessed with four sons and two daughters.  The girls I understood and we had a lot in common.  Boys I had no idea what to do with them!    I have watched Dennis through the years so many times rearrange his schedule do what ever it takes to take the boys hiking, camping,biking,snowboarding and so many other things ( I started thinking about it because today with 5-8 inches of snow on the ground Dennis is taking Tyler Backpacking.)   There is no way I could do that!  I've seen him worry,pray and stay up very late many nights trying to figure out how to help our children through so many trials in there lives. He has been an awesome father for our girls as well.  Bringing them a long on a lot of the activities he does with the boys and doing girl stuff (NYSNC concert comes to mind) and not to forget  the driving lessons and any and all nerve wrecking activities with the boys and girls.  I know a few neighbor kids who have benefited from his fatherly care as well.  It takes two and I am so glad he is my other half.

First time I did something daring with the family

Snowboarding one of the favorite activities Dennis likes to do with the chidren

Winter drive Dennis and Andrew did

Why the Title?

I thought I would spend this post explaining why I chose "Life is Just a Song" for my title, It helps explain a little about me.  I have many loves in my life and music is one of them.  I can't play an instrument although I have tried through the years, the clarinet in 8th grade,piano in college and the occasional times I have picked up the guitar and realized my fingers are just to darn short.  Singing abilities I have none enough said.  What I do have is an ability if you want to call it that to listen to and love music ( I know that is not a talent ) but it seems I always have a song running through my head.  When I starting thinking of a title for my blog the first thing I went for was lines from some songs I was listening to that night.  The CD was Weather vanes by Free Lance Whales ( an indie group I love right now) I had really cool titles from lines in their songs like "This is me starring in the strangest nightmare" and "Seven miles from my front door" both titles were immediately shot down by Sarah with hysterical laughter!  So then I started thinking about how much I relate to music and there was the title which was met with approval from Sarah.

Music has helped me through some tough times in my life and has given me some of the best times.  The one thing I will always be grateful for is music has given me an connection with my children. I decided early in motherhood I would try to understand my children's music interest's.  What I found out is I really liked the music they were listening to.  Most of it I wasn't suppose to like because of my age I've been told! oh well I guess that's were the term guilty pleasures comes in.  What was nice in return they liked my music as well.  Who doesn't love the Beatles.  I will always treasure the time when Daniel would follow me around playing Blink 182 songs on the guitar and I would have to guess the title,I love that my children can all play instruments one of the best things is when they play songs for me whether it is on the guitar or piano. I love discovering new bands with Andrew and Tyler,singing at the top of our lungs along to songs on the I pod or radio with Jessica and Sarah.  Trying to love country music with Jared, still working on that one!  and last but not least the times through our marriage when my sweetheart sings to me mostly John Denver songs and I love it. So thats how I got my title.  The song in my head right now is Good day Sunshine!  have a good day friends!

A few pictures of my musical children:

Tyler and his beloved guitar

Michael and Sarah playing  Beatles Rock Band!

Andrew and Breeann looking very punk for Halloween !

Daniel and Jessica rocking out!

Andrew playing guitar in Seattle

Jared and Family not doing anything musical here but had to add it cause I love them!

January 22, 2011

So it has finally come to this.  After days of TV,reading,crossword puzzles and taking up crocheting here I am blogging wow!  This is a big step in my life because it forces me to learn how to use the computer other than checking emails, Face booking and looking up random subjects on Google.  It  gives me an outlet to share my thoughts on what is happening in my life.  Friends I am going to apologize up front for my  errors in grammar and spelling sorry I will do my best.  Well here it is my first blog kinda of scary and exciting at the same time.  Now I have to get Sarah to show me how to upload pictures!