“Happy Birthday….
“Happy Birthday, baby, oh… I love you so!
“Siiix-tyyy candles….”
That’s what I sang to my mom as I played the ukulele tonight… it’s her sixtieth birthday today, and, just after I had sung her our usual birthday song (“On this day”), I suddenly had the beginning of “Sixteen Candles” in my head…
And it hit me: sixty sounds a lot like sixteen… I can do this!
So, I did a quick chord check, and then called her back.
As soon as I hit the third line, she was laughing… ‘sixty candles make a lovely light’… they do, indeed. 😛
And then, she apparently had her phone sitting open in front of her, with me on speakerphone, because she had just been sending my brother a message while I figured out one last detail before singing to her, and so, as I sang, the Animoji I had sent via her phone to my brother this morning was playing (silently) on repeat… as my mom said afterward, it was like one of those translated Kung-fu films, where the lips are nowhere near lining up with the dubbed speech, but, in our case, it was a tiny digital monkey serenading my mom with my voice. 😛
When she told me that, we both cracked up at the stupidity of it (including the fact that she kept watching the monkey babbling the whole time in the first place!). 😀
I love my mom… thank you for my mom, God… really great work there. 🙂
Post-a-day 2019
hannah ananas 