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| Billie Holiday |
The music was incredibly soothing. I found myself finally unwinding from the stressful days of Christmas shopping. Slowly, my eyelids began to feel heavy...the beautiful, melodic sounds of the instruments & voices, lulling me. I fought to keep my eyes open. Finally at the end of the program, they had us stand up & join them in song...snapping me back into reality.
When we got in the car, the boys told me the music had made them sleepy. All of a sudden I flashed back to an earlier time, many years ago, six rambuctious kids in the back of our Astro Van (the only car big enough to cart around all 8 of us back then.)
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| The Boys When They Were Little-Trip to Virginia City, NV |
The first time I did this, my husband thought I was crazy, "That's not going to work!" But mom's know. I'd taken a mental note on several occasions, the calming effect that (KOST 103.5) had on my kids. Which I initially put on as a punishment when they were misbehaving in the car. But every single time, they would nod off. So this became my weapon. No threats of pulling the car over & taking care of business needed...just the threat & follow through of the dreaded, "SLEEPING MUSIC."
To my husband's surprise, shortly after a station change, 6 little heads would nod over, leaning on shoulders or laps, followed by the wonderful sound of silence in the back of the car & soothing music to calm our nerves. Time & time again, KOST to the rescue.
I looked back at my now youngest, 16 & 17 year old boys, and asked them, "Do you remember the SLEEPING MUSIC?" They both smiled and said, "Yeah." Later that night when I asked the older kids the same question, they said, "Oh yeah," laughing, "we hated that!"
Those special memories are now words of wisdom to all of you parents who still have young children. There's no punishment quite like SLEEPING MUSIC!
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| Driving to Utah |
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| Our Family in 2006 |
1 comment:
What a wonderful post! First of all I wish I was there, at the church! I love jazz music, especially in Christmas time. Funny it never makes me sleepy, for me it rather is real music, just like classical music. Whenever I'm tired of usual noisy songs but still don't want to be in silence, I start listening to jazz. Billy Holiday is my favourite.
Ins't it incredible how strongly music can affect us? The other day my little four year old sister wanted to walk into a Church and they were playing classical music. She is quite energetic and sometimes my mom doesn't know how to deal with her! But I swear the moment she heard that calming music, she wanted to stay and so we ended up listening the concert for an hour!
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