I go back.....

This is probably one of the biggest pet peeves Tommy has with me. Every single part of my life, I associate to some song or band or group. Every moment. It is crazy. It drives Tommy nuts when I can hear a song and I am right back to a particular moment in time. Some good, some amazing and some that should remain tucked far, far away. Whatever the case, it is hereditary. Just like Kenney Chesney's song, "I go back," I do... to any place, any time, any where I want, in my past, with just a song.

I heard Bryan Adams today. "Summer of 69." It took me back to Susan, Crista, Amy and Jesse. We graduated in '89 so of course we changed the number. What a summer we had. Then of course, the clock started re-winding, back and back.

The sound of Creedance Clearwater Revivals, "Rollin on the river," takes me back to the Ozarks. Learning to water ski at 4 years old and fishing with my parents and my sister on our boat. Swimming all the way out to the floating dock, in the cove, by myself.

I learned how to country dance to, "Copperhead Road," at Denim and Diamonds, when I was 22 and thought I knew everything.

"Must have been Love," by Roxette takes me back to high school and seeing the movie, Pretty Woman, with the wrong guy.

"Let's give 'em something to talk about," by Bonnie Rait takes me back to my first love. Jon Secada's, "If you leave," takes me back to that heartache of that lost so-called-love.

"Go rest high on that mountain," by Vince Gill immediately brings on the tears. The horror of when Jimbo was shot and killed in the line of duty is right in front of me again.

"I'm alive," by Celine Dion flashes pictures of the hospital after my wreck. It is like I am right there, reliving those long 31 days at SHC-O.

Meatloafs, "I would do anything for love," sets me back to the days at the jail when I was so young and living life at mach 3 with my tail on fire.

Each of my kiddies have songs associated with the day we brought them home from the hospital. The song that was playing on the radio, in our car, will forever be embedded in my mind with each baby.

I am instantly transported back to Scottsdale Road and Thunderbird when we had to pull over with Jax. He had just made a sound and of course, being new parents, we had to stop and make sure he was ok. Sound Garden's, "I wanna stand with you," will always take me back there, instantly, to that moment.

Barney's, "I love you, you love me," as funny as it sounds... is everything Brinkley. She bopped around singing that all day everyday. to this day, I can't stand to listen to, look at, or touch, anything Barney.

I just find it amazing that Brinkley has this trait. She equates all aspects of her life to songs she listens to and loves and whatever may be happening in her life right then and there. Colbie Calait and Taylor Swift are huge for her right now!

I love that she thinks like me when it comes to this. I always tell Tommy, and our kids, that the past is what has made us who we are today and if we were to change one single inkling of what we did, who we did it with, or how we lived.... our life would be completely different. There would be that possibility that we would not even be here together.

It still drives him nuts, but he knows that no matter where a song may take me back to in the past........

anything, "Enya," is what reminds me of rose petals, candles, and a long plane ride home, to my future!