At night, my two cute, impressionable young girls, aged 2yrs and 4yrs, snuggle into their beds in the room they share. We put on a sound machine and get their nighttime music started. It helps them sleep, and it gives Mommy something to concentrate on other than the wiggling and rustling of little girls who aren’t ready to sleep yet (we currently sit in the room while they fall asleep.) Then, a few weeks ago we went to visit family in Florida and I took the CD that they’ve been listening to for the last two years with us. I figured it would help them sleep in a new place. I promptly forgot about it, and they didn’t need it at all, of course.
And then I lost it.
I have no idea where the stupid mother effing thing went, but it is missing. I don’t have the original playlist. The night after we got back from Florida, the kids wanted music. I didn’t notice the CD was lost until bedtime, of course, so hubby popped onto the computer and threw together a mix. I don’t know what he was thinking, but instead of picking soothing ballads and melodies, he chose to open with I Gotta Feeling, move into a little P!nk and round it out with some Toxic by Britney.
Very soothing. Not.
About a week later, after I turned on that CD player every night and said “Dammit, THAT’S what I was going to do – make a new mix CD!”, I turned on the CD player and it wouldn’t play. Broken. Dead. Oh yeah, and it was bedtime. Luckily we live about 10 minutes away from a Target, so hubby ran over to grab something to play music on while I put the kids to bed. He came home with a combination CD player / iPod player. Yay!
The next night, I figured we’d give the iPod function a little try and I threw my iPod in there, figuring that my music collection of showtunes and Glee music had to be better than the dance mix that my husband had put together. Mostly, it was, except …
I have a lot of Richard Cheese on my iPod, apparently. Enough that like every 4th effing song was Richard Cheese. So my children were being lulled to sleep by a very soothing, classy rendition of Closer or Rape Me, or about 20 other completely inappropriate songs. The songs were so quiet and gentle and soothing that I didn’t realize at first that the mellow voice was crooning “I want to fuck you like an animal.”
Oops.
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I LOVE that picture of you, gorgeous mama.
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Aww, thanks lady.
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OMG when I was a teenager- I made a mixed tape with that NIN song on it & left it at my SUPER CONSERVATIVE family’s house. Not a good move. They’re still “praying for me.”
Twitter Name: robinplemmons
OMG. Wow. that is AMAZING.
I’m praying for you too, you heathen.
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CLASSIC. Would you like to start a fund for their future therapy?
Twitter Name: schmutzie
I would. How much are you contributing? ;-)
Twitter Name: mommygeekology
This is too funny… the Murphy’s Law of bedtime rituals!
We have tested & proven that theory so many times at this point .. I am pretty sure we can carve it into a stone tablet and feel comfortable that it will never change.
Twitter Name: mommygeekology
Perfect.
I used to play the ipod on shuffle all the time, but there was way too much Snoop Dogg and Minor Threat (at least on the punk songs, you usually can’t understand the lyrics).
Now I just use the (mostly tolerable) Pandora kids’ station I created.
Twitter Name: betadad
Ah, Pandora! yeah that’s a much smarter idea.
Twitter Name: mommygeekology
I love his rendition of Get Down with the Sickness. Great for putting kids in therapy.
LOL, I can’t help but get it stuck in my head & sing it later, which gets me funny looks in elevators.
Twitter Name: mommygeekology
HAHAHAHA! awesome.
Twitter Name: allisonzapata
I aim to please!
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