Memories

Despite the issues clouding our relationship now, I have some lovely memories of our mother that I know my brother and sister share.

One of those is the way she used to sing to us at night when she was tucking us in and how each of us had a special song that she sang, just for us.

I think of this when I try to sing to my grandson but he tells me "Stop, Grandma!".  I think that has more to do with the way I'm singing rather than the songs...which are pretty old and tunes that I remember my (our) Dad singing.

She told us once, I think, that she gave us a specific song because of some trait we had that reminded her of the song. Hmmm.

My brother's song, because he was always "noisy" was "Little Sir Echo" .  

My sister's song was "Little Lady Make-Believe". I'm not sure why. But she did change the lyrics slightly. Instead of singing "as much as I love you" she would sing "as much as Mommy loves you". So yes, she referred to herself in the third person even then.

My song, which I remember clearly, was "Little Old Lady". I guess because I was so "old", fussy? Not sure.


Somehow, with technology, these songs have been preserved ;not the way our mother sang to us, which always sounds better in memory, but still...it's the song she gave to us when we were little.