Rock on

I love music. Finding a piece that either reflects my mood or cranks it up is essential to my day. It can be anything from Vivaldi to Dave Brubeck to my beloved 70s rock music. And concerts are just too much fun to me. Jeff doesn’t really like them much but he did drive to NJ for me to see Joni Mitchell live, which was one of the biggest musical events of my life.

I got off to a good start with concerts:

My first concert - the Police on the Synchronicity Tour.
My second - Prince on the Purple Rain Tour.

Two awesome legendary tours. So when it comes to Hayley, I’ve tried to impart my love of tunage to her. She already loves to sing and dance. She took drum lessons for awhile but mostly enjoys just banging on them for fun. So of course, I’m going to drag her with me to shows. I love sitting out on the grass, chilling listening to tunes.

In other words, I’m the bad mom to lets their kid go to rock concerts with her. Her first was Steely Day and Michael McDonald - low key. I”m a Dan fanatic, that was my fourth show. But I took a BIG risk last night and took her to Gwen Stefani with Akon and Lady Sovereign - gulp, on a school night even!! {bad mother, bad mother}

We had a blast! We sat in a great section with families and jammed out to all the tunes. ‘Bananas’ was what Hayley was dying to hear and she was on her feet screaming the entire time it was on. We yodeled with her, sung, swayed our arms and just had so much fun laughing and snuggling on the grass.

I don’t really care that we got home last and she missed a few hours of sleep if we can make awesomely fun memories like that!