Hadley is feeling a little under the weather and is on her 3rd nap today, 2 hours and counting. I’m done reading the whole internet and the house is clean so I decided to sit down for a moment and watch everybody’s pal, Oprah. On today’s episode she made a 16 year old little girls dream come true. I believe the girls name is Sharice, and if it isn’t, that’s what I’ll call her anyway. Sharice’s dream was to sing a duet at Madison Square Garden with none other than Celine Dion. She got up on stage and sang “Because You Loved Me”. She heartfully dedicated it to her mother who was sitting in the audience, as proud as can be. Here’s a little taste of the saccharin sweet lyrics:
For all those times you stood by me
For all the truth that you made me see
For all the joy you brought to my life
For all the wrong that you made right
For every dream you made come true
For all the love I found in you
I’ll be forever thankful baby
You’re the one who held me up
Never let me fall
You’re the one who saw me through through it allYou were my strength when I was weak
You were my voice when I couldn’t speak
You were my eyes when I couldn’t see
You saw the best there was in me
Lifted me up when I couldn’t reach
You gave me faith ‘coz you believed
I’m everything I am
Because you loved meYou gave me wings and made me fly
You touched my hand I could touch the sky
I lost my faith, you gave it back to me
You said no star was out of reach
You stood by me and I stood tall
I had your love I had it all
I’m grateful for each day you gave me
Maybe I don’t know that much
But I know this much is true
I was blessed because I was loved by you
I tell you what, that mother was proud and she had every right to be, her daughter was amazing! I’m no Celine Dion fan, but I think I could sit through her if Hadley was singing that to me. I was watching this and bawling like a little baby. Pun wholeheartedly intended.
So now I finally get the draw of Celine Dion. The camera panned the audience and it was all middle aged women. They had looks in their eyes that either they were picturing the love of their lives or their amazingly grateful 16 year old daughters singing this to them.
I will sit through anything that Hadley throws my way (c’mon Mom, Erin’s violin playing wasn’t that bad, was it?) let’s just hope and pray that Hadley has better musical taste.
Honestly, I think I would have to gently “encourage” Lucy to sing someone else. ANYONE else. That woman and her songs about “Lurve” are like nails on a chalkboard to these ears.
Although, thinking back to all the piano mom and dad sat through makes me believe they should be nominated for sainthood. Now we have things like internet phones where people could surf the web while someone else’s kid is playing their version of Moonlight Sonata. Back then, mom and dad had to suffer through all of those other kids and then suffer through the four of us plunking out melodies. Oy vey. I can see my future and it ain’t bright!
Hey, girls – I was always proud of you and loved every minute of those recitals – even though they were a bit unnerving if you forgot your “memorized” piece. Remember my advice? “You’re doing really well if mom is crying!” And I cried a lot because it moved me to see you try so hard. And dammit, you actually got to be good! I would do it all again if I was given the chance. Tonight Sophie sang “Head, shoulders, knees and toes” to us–in French! She’s really picking up the accent, too. It’s so much fun to hear her and to see how proud she is to be able to sing in French. I can’t wait for the first school “event” that we can attend.
Watching your kids learn and, yes, perform is awe-inspiring so enjoy every minute of it. It goes by way too fast. Love to all of you!
Shanna I second your comment on the piano sainthood. Scott and I were just talking today about how you guys all had to practice the piano an hour a day. Hmmmm… 4 hours of listening to kids practice the piano or one 3 minute Celine Dion song. I’ll go with Celine.
OK, can this story go a bit in reverse? I got a piano, age 26, because I just knew I was going to die without being able to read a note. I took lessons, refused, REFUSED to do the recital with the little kids, but practiced alllll summer, “The National Anthem”. It was the summer Olympics that year and every time the U.S. would win a gold, I would leap up and play that song, over and over. Tom would come home from work and the boys would BEG him to make me stop playing that song. I played it all summer and when I went back to lessons in the fall, she said, ‘what have you learned this summer’ and I sat there and belted it out PERFECTLY. She got tears in her eyes…and said that she never thought I would do a song that well. THAT tells you how talented I wasn’t… Early on in these piano lessons, her frustration with my inability to tap my foot, or nod my head to the beat got the best of her one day and I said, I am just doing this for fun, don’t plan to be a concert pianist or anything. She slowly smiled and said, ‘THAT’S good….Go Celion Dion…..Love Mama Cat
i would love to see a massive price drop on internet phones coz i like to buy lots of em ,;*