The playlist for my life

Ok so we all have things happen in our life. I however have songs related to almost all the events in my life. I was talking with my dad about how my blog playlist is sort of making a playlist of my life. Here are some of the songs that happened for events before I started my blog:

My parents' divorce:
Restless Heart Why does it have to be Wrong or Right
I didn't understand what was really going on. But for some reason this song always made me think of the basic question I had which was "why".

My missing my mom as a little girl:
Klymaxx I Miss You
That was a really hard time for me. I didn't understand why I didn't have my mom around.

The Chipettes My Mother, Thats Who I Need
I used to cry during this movie when this song would come on.

Charlene I've been to Paradise, But I've Never Been to Me
I have looked and looked for this song and finally found it. I remembered hearing this song as a little girl and my mom listening to it. I recently fond out the story of how and why my mom had this song. It is still an awesome song. It's sad, but good. Now that I know the history of this song....it means even more to me


Grandma Jones:
There are several! Many have come up over the years that take me back.
The ones from that time in my life:
Bette Midler Wind Beneath My Wings
It came out right about that time and even today...she inspires me and helps me fly!

Tiffany All This Time
A song that used to make me cry and cry thinking about grandma.

Garth Brooks If Tomorrow Never Comes
This one is still an important song to me. I try to make sure every night before I go to bed, if tomorrow never comes, would my kids, my mom, my dad, know without a doubt that I loved them.

Don't Worry Be Happy
I remember watching the video for this song with Grandma and she would just smile and attempt to whistle along with the song.

Since her death, this song has come to mean alot to me:
Reba McEntire If I Had Only Known
What a great song especially the end. I remember waking up in the mornings before everyone else and I would go sit in her room and lay my head on her bed and we would talk and hold hands.

Kellie Pickler My Angel
Especially when I think about her singing Amazing Grace and her love for that song. This song really really means alot to me. Every word of it. This song reminds me actually of both my Grandmas, Grandma Cronin always sings Jesus loves me to Isaiah.

Songs that remind me of times with my brother:
Somewhere Out There from American Tail
This has been David's and my song for a very long time. When I lived with mom and he lived with dad, we often felt like the little brother and sister mouse in American Tail.

Amy Grant and Michael W Smith Somewhere, Somehow
David and I share a love of singing. We practiced and practiced this song for a whole summer. Wow! Looking for this song brought back alot of memories! When David would come to mom's for visits he and I would stay up all night that first night talking. I'm pretty blessed to have such an amazing brother and friend.

Babyface: You Were There
This song has meant alot to me and consistently reminds me that my Brother has been there for me every time I've needed him. Sometimes even when I didn't think I did.

Fun Times with Mom:
Ace of Base I Saw The Sign
I could not talk about songs that bring back memories of my mother and I without mentioning this song. When I was in FBLA and headed to Williamsburg for state competition I remember this song came on the radio and she would sing I saw the Sieieieign. Later that year, when working on a play, that song came on the radio in the dressing room and my mom started singing along..of course embarassing me to no end. But everyone else thought my mother was so cool because she knew the cool songs!

Dan Seals Bop With Ya Baby
I remember when I was younger and visiting mom in NC, this song came on the radio and mom and I and out hairbrushes did a pretty good routine!

Trisha Yearwood How Do I Live Without You
This song came out and we both loved it. Unfortunately right after this came out mom and I had alot of problems. This song made me think of how important she was to me, even though we weren't even speaking.

And last but not least...
Sylvia Nobody and Snapshot!

My Dad:
I've talked about him earlier as far as all the sentimental songs go...but there have been some fun ones I wonder if he remembers!
Amy Grant Fat Baby and Sing Your Praise To The Lord
I remember Dad always playing music in the car...and these two stick out!

Dick Van Dyke You Two
LOL This one definitely describes the three musketeers! Dad David and I! Everytime I watch this movie this song takes me back!

The Unicorn by the Irish Rovers
This song is actually a reminder of Grandma, Grandpa, and dad and David. Grandpa brought out all this old music one night and I remember this song! I was really excited to find it again!

My Children:
Phil Collins You'll be in My Heart
Brittany swears she can remember me singing this song to her as a baby. And I did.

Lonestar Amazed
I used to sing this one to her too!

Aerosmith I Don't Want To Miss a Thing
sang this to her too!!

Rascall Flatts God Blessed the Broken Road
This is my Isaiah's song. With everything that happened right before the pregnancy and during the pregnancy, this song always takes me back to when I first held him and loved him. It wasn't the easiest road, but God definitely Blessed that broken road!

Reba McEntire He Gets That From Me
I can see so much of his father in Isaiah. Yet I remember being pregnant with Isaiah and listening to this song. I was still in love with his father and I would hold Isaiah after he was born and think of what he got from me and what he got from his father.

Martina McBride In My Daughter's Eyes
This one I heard for the first time driving down the road to the beach when Isaiah was a baby. I think Brittany and I both cried when we first heard it. I still cry when I hear it, but it reminds me of the spontanuity of that moment. We woke up that morning and decided to go the beach and we did.


Bill
Katrina and the Waves Walking on Sunshine
That crazy man! Couldn't dance a lick but this song would come on and he would bob his head up and down and sing in the craziest voice.

Reba McEntire The Greatest Man I Never Knew
This song came on the radio the day I found out Bill died. Now it's always connected to Bill!

Life Events:
Sugarland Baby Girl
When I first got my job at Oiles, I remember thinking this was my first step to ending up like the end of this song.

And the song that will always bring me back to this time in my life is:
Jordin Sparks This is my now
This song really sums up where I am. I have settled for less but ready for more, my fears behind me, etc. I think I have grown more in the last 6 months than I have in probably 29 years. And this moment in my life right now is my NOW, it is my moment.

There are many other songs that take me back to loves and lost loves...but that would take up way too much space and open up closed books that should stay closed.

This has been such a great adventure through my life and brought many tears and many laughs and many many memories. I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed writing it and looking up all the songs.

So my question of the day:

What is the song that when you hear it in 20 years will bring you right back to this time of your life?