Lullaby and Goodnight

DG and I each have our different techniques to get Hadley to go to sleep. During December, we sang Christmas carols to her. White Christmas and Let it Snow were the two main ones that DG sang to her in utero. When my mother was here, she pulled out the church hymns, singing to her in a soothing alto. Usually, two hymns was all it took. Beginning in January, when I banned Christmas songs from the house until next Thanksgiving, we struggled to find songs that we knew all the words.

On one particularly tough evening at 3am, I found myself singing an old College Favorite, Sir Mix A Lot's "Baby's Got Back". Within 10 minutes, I was able to say "Baby's Got Sleep". When she starts screaming in the car, DG and I break into "Hard Day's Night" by the Beatles. On other occasions I've pulled out a few hits from Wham! and show tunes from Oklahoma. Just yesterday, I sang half of Abbey Road to her. Why these songs? Who knows?!?!

So I wasn't suprised when one night I found DG singing to her in a soft whisper, Madonna's "Like a Virgin". It's his signature song that he now uses to get her to sleep. Well that and "Lucky Star". Sometimes we duet. Well I'm just the back up singer really.

Wham Dedication

Did you need a little pick me up this fine Thursday morning? Well have I got just the song for you. Straight out of 1983, from Wham's first Album, this song Young Guns goes out to Rosemary and Ellen. I leave out last names to protect the innocent.



Circa 8th grade, Wham was like the best band ever, in the whole entire universe. Pictures of George Michael and Andrew Ridgley plastered my walls. Every issue of Teen Beat with their faces on the cover was mine. Not even my Dad's protests over George Michael's sexuality made me rethink my love for them. "Nuh uh Dad, gawd" So the ladies came over into the family room where Dad had set up a make shift studio consisting of 1 Boom Box playing a Wham Tape, 1 Cassette Deck recording our adventure, and several ladders with microphones attached. We sang our hearts out for 2 days and what was the product? Our very own karaoke style Wham mix. Painfully off key, but fun to make. This tape exists, somewhere in an attic in Connecticut. I'm sure I will hear it's torturous sounds again someday. In case this wasn't enough for you, and you need more WHAM!, check out Wham Rap, Club Tropicana, Edge of Heaven, and Everything She Wants.

In the meantime, I just sang along, loud, to this entire song. No, the dogs didn't howl and with our new house, not even the neighbors could hear me.