Love is all around us in February. The hearts, the flowers, the expressions of romance. PHOOEY! Yes, I am single, as I have been for the last couple of years. I should be a bahumbug person when it comes to Valentine's Day. Instead I have taken the high road and have really taken inventory of where my heart has been the last couple of years. I have been a mom who is dedicated to her two babies. My love affair with them started the moment I knew that I carried them in my womb. The following love songs bring a smile to my face as I think of my two loves, Thing One and Thing Two.
Mana - Bendita tu Luz
This song is for my beautiful baby boy. Just one short month after I had him I went to see this group in concert. I had heard this song before, but it took on new meaning for me that day. The tears rolled down my face as I thought of my baby at home and how much he filled my life already. As the song says in the very beautiful spanish language: Bless your light, Blessed is the light of your gaze, Bless your gaze, Blessed is the gaze from your soul.
John Mayer - Daughters
I heard this song when I was pregnant with Thing One and thought it was beautiful. When I was pregnant with Thing Two it took on more meaning. I related how as a woman we take how we were treated by our parents into many aspects of other relationships. I was blessed to have a great father, who left much too soon. I wanted to make sure that Big Cheese would be able to understand his role with our daughter. Even though he and I have mixed feelings about each other I want to make sure he never fails her.
Colbie Calliat - Bubbly
Bubbly is just how fun my children's love is. How I am like a child and their laughter and hugs make me feel new. They place a smile on my face and laughter in my voice. I hope the three of us can always feel this way about each other in the years to come. Ok, so maybe the teenage years we may be in denial, but I hope we will get through it and find the fun we have always had together.
Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance
Even before I had children I really loved this song. At first it was the hopes I'm sure my parents had for me. Once my children came to be I absolutely felt every word of hopes and dreams that this song refers to. You always hope for more for your children.
