The song remembers when...

Ever hear a song and BAM! It takes you back.......

almost like a time machine?


Happens to me all the time..........

They say (who is they?) that memories are triggered and remembered by scents and sounds.....

So here is one that make me feel 16 again.......

Literally feel it, inside my heart, those butterflies in my stomache, the giddiness of being young and so in love with the boy who could do no wrong...........




Many of you know (or don't) that I was married for a hot second......at my fabulous beautiful wedding so many years ago (11 to be exact), one of my favorite parts was when this song played and it was for me and my sisters......coming from a family of all girls, of my amazing sisterhood of Elias', it is only fitting. This song makes me so happy every single time I hear it!

So the dance floor flooded with SISTERS---from my great aunt to my mama and her sister but most importantly, in my circle of dancing, there were the Elias girls dancing away.........

And the irony of it all now (as I am a grown up and I experience irony) is that this amazing group that sings this song is my teen directors mama and aunties..............


Whenever I hear this song, I think of this little baby that I adored as we are 13 years apart in age.......she would look up at me with these giant blue eyes and chubby cheeks and my heart would melt. I was so amazed with this little girl and I loved her so much! (Hello, I still do but stay with me.....) I rememeber telling my mom that when Bethany graduated from high school, I wanted to play her this song.....(Now you have to remember this was 20 years ago and I had REALLY big hair and I was 15 and life revolved around music!)

Again, with the irony............as I drove to her college graduation party----what happened to be on the radio and made me cry my eyes out and think of that precious baby girl? Yup, you guessed it............


That's all for my trip down memory lane...............this was way fun for me so we'll do it again........maybe next time I'll actually scan some pics so you can see (or remember!) how big my hair actually was!

~me