A vintage post of mine about wee Puppy's shoes--Orange--managed to make runner-up in the Scribbit September Write-Away Contest. A small, but happy thing in my week.
At the risk of oversharing: my whole life I've heard Mr. Rogers singing "I'm proud of you, I hope that you are proud of you, too" inside my head whenever something good happens. This is what a lifetime of PBS has done to me. Does anyone else have a childhood song you just can't shake?
I also want to point you to one of the other runners-up, who coincidentally was fellow adoptive parent Tongga Mom. She wrote an excellent piece about race, colorblindness and transracial parenting: Seeing Color. Definitely worth clicking through to read.
12 comments:
Congratulations!!! Clicking off to read! (and I google shared!)
Congrats! I remember that one--very nicely done!
I have all the Schoolhouse Rock songs playing in my head on and off--probably contributed to my choices of majors in college.
Yay! Love the story.
Congrats on getting 2nd place!
Congrats and (now that I've read the story) very well deserved! I love the description of his happy dance after he gets his stamp.
I'm with Min on the Schoolhouse Rock songs. Here's a medley to stick in your head:
"Conjunction Junction, what's your function?"
"I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill and I'm sitting here on Capital Hill..."
"...is a magic number"
"Inter-planet Janet is a galaxy girl..."
"If you could skate, it would be great, if you could make, a figure 8..."
Granted I tend to get the lyrics wrong at times so forgive any boo-boo's and enjoy humming these beauties all. day. long.
Congrats!! I have many songs running through my head from childhood----of course, I can't think of any now!!
Congrats! Most of my songs come from an album (yes an album) called Music Machine. Songs like "Have Patience" and "Love".
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@junebug - Oh my word, a college roommate used to sing "Have Patience" at me when I was...well, when I was being impatient. It made me want to throttle her. Ah, memories.
Here from ICLW. Well, not that you brought it up I have Mr. R songs in my head...
Congrats!! What a lovely story. I am also a proud (adult) owner of orange neon crocs (that, yes, I do sometimes wear with thick socks in the autumn). :)
Congratulations. I love Mr. Rogers and that song. Oh the memories.
That's great!!
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