“Moms just wanna’ lay down” (sung to the tune of Cyndi Lauper’s, “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!”)

I could not find the picture I was looking for. I searched online for moms. What did I find but all these beautiful posed pictures of moms, pursuant to the Mother’s Day holiday we recently celebrated. I tried mothers, I tried tired moms and tired mothers. I tried moms with toddlers. Finally as you see in my picture, I searched on frenzied moms. The internet apparently can’t find any frenzied moms…I sure can! This whole post idea started because I am feeling overwhelmed dealing with my son’s Craigslist tire/wheel issues for 3 or 4 days now, and three sick cats, one of whom I have to feed every 3 hours through a feeding tube… I found myself crawling into bed the other afternoon humming (to the tune of Cyndi Lauper’s, “Girls Just Wanna’ Have Fun”)…”Moms just wanna lay do-own… we just wanna, we just wannaaa, that’s all we really wa…aaaaaant. Moms..just wanna lay down!” Enjoy your naps, mamas ;-).

Life lessons from Christmas Carols?! (Or…be careful what horse you ride?!)

More things you learn from Christmas carols:
12) You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear voices singing.
13) If you have a notion to take a ride in a one-horse open sleigh, you might suddenly find someone by your side, but be careful to find a horse for whom Misfortune does not seem to be his lot!
14) Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe help to make the season bright…unless you’re a vegetarian. Or a tree – mistletoe is, after all, a parasite.
15) ‘Tis the season to be jolly, evidenced by Fa la la la la la la la-ing!
16) Stars can dance, & the night wind can not only see it, but can talk to the little lamb & ask him if he sees it too. And not only that but a little lamb can hear songs & ask a shepherd boy if he hears them too, & the shepherd boy can ask the king if he knows what the shepherd knows, that a baby shivers in the cold. And he is not afraid to ask the king to give him silver and gold, & this king is not afraid to ask people everywhere to pray for peace, & to tell them that the child will bring them goodness & light. And it all began with a dancing star with a tail as big as a kite!
17) “They should never give a license
to a man who drives a sleigh & plays with elves…
Grandma got run over by a reindeer
walkin’ home from our house, Christmas Eve…You can say there’s no such thing as Santa, but as for me and Grandpa, we believe!”
18) “Hark! the herald angels sing,
‘Glory to the newborn King!'” – there are journalist angels in Heaven, & they publish abroad their glad tidings in Olde English!
19) The prettiest sight to see, is the holly that will be on your own front door.
20) So if everyone is still dancing in the “new old-fashioned way” & that was in 1958, then they are now dancing in the old old-fashioned way.
21) It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again.
22) Some people will do anything to get Santa to tell them what he is bringing them, but there are those who don’t want any single soul to hear what they whispered in Santa’s ear…Wha??

Jingles as Life Messages?!

So lately thanks to a couple friends, I’ve been thinking a little bit about the messages that our Christmas carols are sending us. Here are a few:
1) From “So this is Christmas” – if we hope it’s a good year, that means one without any fear.
2) “Here Comes Santa Claus” – we have ascribed to Santa some qualities of God. He sees you when you’re sleeping, knows when you’re awake, when you’ve been bad or good…so we’d better watch out! Kinda’ creepy.
3) From “Little Drummer Boy” we learn that even poor boys want to give gifts to the King, to give Him their best, & He smiles at them. But maybe He just smiles because we want to please Him, because we love Him, & giving gifts is our love language? Maybe, like another poor boy, we should just give our hearts.
4) “All I want for Christmas” – all it takes to make us happy is to have what we don’t have!
5) If you see Mommy kissing Santa Claus under the mistletoe it could really mess with your mind…& no one will believe you. And mums, if your little boy sees you kissing Santa Claus he will tell Daddy! Hmmmm…a lot of these carols seem just like real life!
6) Frosty the Snowman has a really low toad-like voice.
7) Frosty did not obey the traffic cop when he said stop…he knew he had to hurry on his way before he melted…but he’ll be back some day, & hopefully that same traffic cop will not be angry with him.
8) If your true love truly loves you, starting on the 1st day of Christmas (December 25th) he should be giving you heaping helpings of poultry, graduating up to people (to milk your dairy cows, possibly a gift themselves), & on to royal people dancing & leaping, playing pipes & drumming…oh & a ring for every finger on your hand, or just enough gold rings to represent The Olympics.
9) If you really believe, Santa Baby will reward you by “showing you the money” – oh & by giving you a ring (just 1, not 5) – “I really do believe in you,
Let’s see if you believe in me.”
10) The thing that will make (bells) ring, is the carol that you sing right within your heart.
11) We tell a higher power how good we’ve been so that we can get what we want & we keep asking Him to tell us, if he can…do we ever grow out of this?!