This has been a full and busy month, and I've not made much time for blogging. Some of the highlights from our month were visits from family, birthday parties, and the requisite cake, ice cream, and other goodies. A good full month.
Speaking of goodies, with Halloween right around the corner it seems appropriate to confess that I have been listening to some very strange, haunting even, nursery rhymes (those of you with young children may understand). As I've been paying attention to the lyrics more these days, I have begun to wonder what exactly the writers were thinking when they wrote these:
Rock a bye baby on the tree top....and when the bow breaks the cradle with fall and down will come baby cradle and all.
Sing a song of sixpence, four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, when the pie was opened the birds began to sing....when down came a blackbird and peeked off her nose.
Three blind mice, three blind mice, see how they run, they all run after the farmer's wife, who cut off their tail with a carving knife...
Perhaps I'm just being too literal about these, but I find it funny each time I hear these sung (they are on a musical CD our kids enjoy hearing). A baby hurtling down from the treetops, birds pecking off a person's nose, a woman running after mice knife held high...somehow the words seem more appropriate for a Halloween plot than a bedtime song.
Hope your Autumn is going well.
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heh, i too have periodically thought how terrible "rockabye baby" is as i sung it to my kids! funny how we hear things all our lives and don't pay attention, isn't it?! makes me wonder how many things i'm missing even now, ack.
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