I’m starting to think
that each one of my children is taking on a bit of my personality.
Aud had been super excited about the Christmas present she
bought for me this year. She had been
laughing and laughing all week thinking about giving it to me. She often showed it to me and proudly told me
over and over that she used an entire roll of tape and couldn’t wait to see me
try to unwrap it. By the look of it, I
knew it was most likely a CD. The
question was, what CD would make her laugh maniacally whenever she would talk
about it? It made me nervous. The only thought I had that eased my mind a
little was that there are very few CD players in our house and I can get rid of
those without anyone knowing. She was
elated the day before Christmas when she discovered that the new van had a CD
player. What?!?! I did not know that!!!! Great, now I’m stuck with whatever lovely
music will be coming out of the speakers, reverberating throughout the van and
tainting it with God only knows what.
I’ll probably have to do a cleansing and play the Sirius 80s station
non-stop, even through the night, so my van will stop crying.
Christmas day arrived and Aud was bouncing up and down. I opened my present and it was a CD of the
“Alvin and The Chipmunks Christmas Edition”.
A little background…..way back when, I’d say 14 years, I bought this
exact album b/c it is awesome!!!! I
remember it from when I was a kid and thought it was so great and it always
made me think of Christmas. You know how
kids get fixated on something? That
stupid CD didn’t come out of my van for 13 years. The rule in the beginning was that we could
only start listening to it once Thanksgiving day hit until New Year’s Day. Unfortunately, that rule wasn’t followed very
well once we started letting everyone have a chance to pick the music we would
listen to on drives around town.
Therefore, we listened to it ALL the time, every season of the
year. Last year it died a natural death,
lots and lots of scratches so that there were only a few songs left that we
could listen to all the way through.
Thank you, Jesus!
I was chatting with Thomas this morning and asked him how
excited Audrey was about getting me that CD.
He said she thought it was so funny b/c she knew I would hate it and it
would drive me crazy. Yep, that’s pretty
much the reasoning I use when I pick out presents. It is funny!
I’m kinda proud that she’s taken on my present giving attitude.
This was the best part, I think. They didn’t have time to get the CD from
Amazon and mail it in time for Christmas (w/o paying enough money to put the
kids through college). So, of course,
stupid technology, they downloaded it and burned it to a CD. We were sitting here on Boxing Day putting
together a puzzle (I’m was playing on the computer next to them) and Aud
remembered the CD (I wasn’t going to remind her) and ran to find it to put some
good Christmas music on. I was crossing
my fingers, holding them over my head praying the CD didn’t work. It didn’t work! There was an error! It hadn’t burn onto the disc correctly! Hell, yah!!!
Best! Present! Ever! I went smugly
back to playing on my computer as Aud took off to the downstairs bathroom and
Thomas took off to the upstairs bathroom, I thought. I was wrong.
A bit later, everyone made it back to the puzzle. Thomas casually asked Audrey to play some
music on my Ipod. Soon the Christmas
lyrics of “All I want for Christmas”, sung by The Chipmunks, was coming out of
the player. What?!? Stupid Thomas, he downloaded it onto my Ipod
and I can take that EVERYWHERE!!!!
Audrey was about peeing herself and Thomas was chuckling and my shoulders
were starting to tighten and my jaw was starting to clench. They were all singing along and laughing and
pretty soon I started singing along and we were all laughing. Well, I had one year off from that CD and now
it was back in my life. It was a reminder
of good times with the kids singing their hearts out when the Christmas season
lasts all year long! Best! Present!
Ever!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61rZVpZ7YwA
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