Ain’t No Mountain High Enough

I think my daughter was high today.  Okay, so maybe she wasn’t high.  But she is on antibiotics…….maybe I’ll blame that.  Whatever she was smokin’, all I know is that the entire day everything she said was done in “sing-song” mode.  At one point she was telling me that she liked her princess book and it turned into a version of Son of a Preacher Man with “princess book” and a lot of “yes it is…..yes it is”. 

At one point she made up an entire song around the alphabet song with inserted words that associated with anything she saw in the room.  So it was like “A, B, C, D, E for everything, G for grandma and grandpa and grandma and grandpa and grandma and grandpa, H, I, J, K, L, M for mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mmmmmmmmmooooooommmmyyyyyy, N”………and so on and so on.

After a while I thought about taking a swig of her antibiotic so I could join her mood, and more importantly her stage show.  No need for it though, because by noon I was humming and by mid-afternoon I was singing right along with her.  Back-up singing, solos, duets – you name it, we were taking requests by dinnertime. 

We ended our day in Songland with the ever-popular Sound of Music soundtrack with numbers like “Do-Re-Mi”, “Maria”, and the appropriate night time lullaby “So Long, Farewell”.  I ended up having to pull the weight on the big finale, as doped-up girl drifted off to sleep before I could get out “the sun has gone to bed and so must I”.  I was really going for the heart of the audience with that one……hoping to prompt some teary eyes.  But alas, like all good antibiotic drugs, the stage appeal tapered off and we had to get back to our ordinary, drug free lives. 

Just remember, in the words of Barney the purple deranged children’s dinosaur……..”I love you.  You love me.  We’re a great big family.  With a great big hug and a kiss from me to you…….won’t you say you love me too?”