Love Notes

While I was on my big trip across the world I got some really sweet love notes from my kids.  I think they're worth saving so I'll do that here.  I wrote Isaac a cheesy little rhyming poem (he loves rhymes) so he wrote me a couple in return:

I love you so much I can't 

Give a buch (buck;)

so let's have 

some fun 

and run funny

I miss you 

why did you leave

you missed all the fun 

so why did you leave, Lovey?

fr:  Isaac

From Georgie I received an email:

i love you and i miss you and i want you to know that i want to sing a song for you and i miss you and i'll always like you.  i wish i could come to singapore with you and i love you and i didn't want you to go.  i want you to come see me and i wish i could see you too....and i wish i could see juliet and i love you and i wanna see you and i know it's night time in singapore and i want you to know that i'm doing fine.  i really want to see you forever.

 

i love you.

gigi

I think I'm going to embroider those on a pillow...

Take It Easy

If your kids aren't familiar with this song yet, they need to be:




Isaac and I were listening to music on the TV through Apple TV (awesome Xmas gift, Ash) when "Take It Easy" came on. He was instantly hooked and wanted to hear it again. He then asked me to play it on the guitar that night when I was putting him to bed. Thankfully, it is a fairly easly I-IV-V chord progression with a couple of minor chords thrown in the mix that wasn't too tough to figure out. It is now on regular rotation during our evening guitar sing-alongs. I remember being a teenager at the Incline Village rec center in Lake Tahoe and hearing Shaun "Dozer" Garff singing that song in the shower. "Well I'm-a standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona..."

Some other great songs that the kids enjoy include "Friday I'm in Love", "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)", "Good Golly Miss Molly" (the CCR version), "Cotton Fields" (also CCR), and "I Won't Back Down." One of my goals with my kids is to give them a decent music education and not have my musical mind melted into mush by crappy Wiggles/Barney/Disney/Hannah Montana/Justin Bieber music constantly. You just have to WANT IT!