Am I the only one…
…who bursts into tears when she hears “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”? It comes to this line and I just lose it:
“And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.”
It’s right up there with “Fire and Rain.” I can’t even listen to “Fire and Rain” anymore.
In less tearful (downright happy, in fact) news, Thumper is quite fond of his barley teething biscuits. Guess he inherited the love of cookies from his mama.
You know…I’m thinking we should do a photoshoot before you head west. He’s just too cute to resist!
Posted by: Cara
That Brooklyn shirt is funny…funnier with the cookie on it.
🙂
Posted by: claudia
You know…I’m thinking we should do a photoshoot before you head west. He’s just too cute to resist!
Posted by: Cara
That Brooklyn shirt is funny…funnier with the cookie on it.
🙂
Posted by: claudia
I don’t burst into tears, but I get teary eyed every time I hear the song. I spent most of my life in Northern Michigan and the legend of The Fitz is still very much alive there. I always take a moment on the anniversary of the sinking to play the song and think about those that were lost and the loved ones left behind.
Posted by: Kathy
OH, I so am with you on the whole song thing. What about some of those country songs? Butterfly kisses? Sobbing.
I hope you dance? Hysterical.
And God forbid I should hear that “christmas shoes” where the kid is buying new shoes for his dying mom . . . Lord help me with that one. . .
Posted by: knittingnurse
Bean was very fond of frozen waffles when she was teething. I’d cut them into short strips and then put them back in the freezer for when I needed them. Much less messy than teething biscuits albeit less portable as well.
Posted by: liz
His eye is on the sparrow…
(sniff sniff)
and I know he’s watching meeeeeee!
(WAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!)
Posted by: Iris
Talk about an insanely cute baby! The sweater above is very sweet…what a great design.
Posted by: margene
When we saw Gordon Lightfoot last year he performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It was wonderful and very emotional. Fire and Rain kills me because someone sang it at my brother’s funeral.
Thumper is just the cutest baby. You should take Cara up on her offer.
Posted by: Carole
Um, yeah, I totally burst into tears when I hear that song. And it’s a bad thing, too, because I usually hear it when I’m in a retail establishment of some kind, because it appears every now and then on “lite” radio. Thank you for admitting this publicly, because it gave the courage to own up to it myself. It is, after all, a very sad story.
Posted by: Lizbon
I was rocked back with surprise because those two songs get me every time, too. Along with with Pink Floyd’s “There is no pain, you are receding – a distant ship’s smoke on the horizon.”
Thumper is just getting cuter by the day. Just yesterday, it seems, he was a bump behind an ever-expanding tattoo.
Posted by: Mary K. in Rockport
The song that gets me is “Love, Me” sung by Colin Raye. Every time.
Posted by: Kim
I’ve always loved The Wreck of the E.F but I never really got teary until I had a baby. Of course I’ve always been a fan of stories that tell stories, sea shanties, etc. (and I miss their demise.) Now I get teary at anything to do with the separation of family members. Watching a lot of local news gets pretty hard too since there’s usually a sad story about a child, you know the stories.
Thumper is starting to look less like a baby an more like a handsome little boy!
Posted by: LizD
Emeline just saw this picture and said: A BAYbeeeeee!! And a chok-o-lit in the face.
hehe Sweet. 🙂
Posted by: Laura
I love the teether-biscuit face! I just don’t like when they touch me or anything else with sticky little melty cookie hands. It’s all good till the clean up. 🙂
Posted by: Cambria W
Oh, god, Into the Mystic, Van Morrison. One of my older son’s friends commited suicide a few years ago, still in high school, stepped off a high bridge into a ravine – I was listening to that album a lot around then, and that song got attached to it.
Lots more stuff makes me cry since I became a mom. Sad things, sweet things. I can assure you, the puppy chow commercials get a little less touching as the babies get older, thank goodness.
Posted by: Patti
Oh I’m right there with ya – bawlin’ everytime. How about “Wildfire”? About the horse dying in a snow storm or something nutty like that. Kills me. I swear there was something about that time peroid – lots of what I call “narrative” songs tellin a sad sad story. How about Billy Jo jumpin off the Tallahatchee Bridge? How about the cold, self involved Cats in the Cradle father? Betcha could burn a whole cd of “those” songs.
Posted by: stephanie
There’s a song in French about a little girl drowning that makes me bawl. And that “April” or whatever it’s called song by Simon and Garfunkel makes me choke up for some reason.
Posted by: kate
Yeah I think it has something to do with having kids too. there are a number of songs that get me everytime I hear them, “The Wreck” especially, as I come for a seafaring family
(my dad was a lifeboatman for 20 years as well as a full time fisherman).
Posted by: Janine
Tons of songs make me cry but I can’t seem to think of any now. “Across the Universe,” there’s one.
Posted by: Michelle
I don’t burst into tears, but I get teary eyed every time I hear the song. I spent most of my life in Northern Michigan and the legend of The Fitz is still very much alive there. I always take a moment on the anniversary of the sinking to play the song and think about those that were lost and the loved ones left behind.
Posted by: Kathy
OH, I so am with you on the whole song thing. What about some of those country songs? Butterfly kisses? Sobbing.
I hope you dance? Hysterical.
And God forbid I should hear that “christmas shoes” where the kid is buying new shoes for his dying mom . . . Lord help me with that one. . .
Posted by: knittingnurse
Bean was very fond of frozen waffles when she was teething. I’d cut them into short strips and then put them back in the freezer for when I needed them. Much less messy than teething biscuits albeit less portable as well.
Posted by: liz
His eye is on the sparrow…
(sniff sniff)
and I know he’s watching meeeeeee!
(WAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!)
Posted by: Iris
Talk about an insanely cute baby! The sweater above is very sweet…what a great design.
Posted by: margene
When we saw Gordon Lightfoot last year he performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It was wonderful and very emotional. Fire and Rain kills me because someone sang it at my brother’s funeral.
Thumper is just the cutest baby. You should take Cara up on her offer.
Posted by: Carole
Um, yeah, I totally burst into tears when I hear that song. And it’s a bad thing, too, because I usually hear it when I’m in a retail establishment of some kind, because it appears every now and then on “lite” radio. Thank you for admitting this publicly, because it gave the courage to own up to it myself. It is, after all, a very sad story.
Posted by: Lizbon
I was rocked back with surprise because those two songs get me every time, too. Along with with Pink Floyd’s “There is no pain, you are receding – a distant ship’s smoke on the horizon.”
Thumper is just getting cuter by the day. Just yesterday, it seems, he was a bump behind an ever-expanding tattoo.
Posted by: Mary K. in Rockport
The song that gets me is “Love, Me” sung by Colin Raye. Every time.
Posted by: Kim
I’ve always loved The Wreck of the E.F but I never really got teary until I had a baby. Of course I’ve always been a fan of stories that tell stories, sea shanties, etc. (and I miss their demise.) Now I get teary at anything to do with the separation of family members. Watching a lot of local news gets pretty hard too since there’s usually a sad story about a child, you know the stories.
Thumper is starting to look less like a baby an more like a handsome little boy!
Posted by: LizD
Emeline just saw this picture and said: A BAYbeeeeee!! And a chok-o-lit in the face.
hehe Sweet. 🙂
Posted by: Laura
I love the teether-biscuit face! I just don’t like when they touch me or anything else with sticky little melty cookie hands. It’s all good till the clean up. 🙂
Posted by: Cambria W
Oh, god, Into the Mystic, Van Morrison. One of my older son’s friends commited suicide a few years ago, still in high school, stepped off a high bridge into a ravine – I was listening to that album a lot around then, and that song got attached to it.
Lots more stuff makes me cry since I became a mom. Sad things, sweet things. I can assure you, the puppy chow commercials get a little less touching as the babies get older, thank goodness.
Posted by: Patti
Oh I’m right there with ya – bawlin’ everytime. How about “Wildfire”? About the horse dying in a snow storm or something nutty like that. Kills me. I swear there was something about that time peroid – lots of what I call “narrative” songs tellin a sad sad story. How about Billy Jo jumpin off the Tallahatchee Bridge? How about the cold, self involved Cats in the Cradle father? Betcha could burn a whole cd of “those” songs.
Posted by: stephanie
There’s a song in French about a little girl drowning that makes me bawl. And that “April” or whatever it’s called song by Simon and Garfunkel makes me choke up for some reason.
Posted by: kate
Yeah I think it has something to do with having kids too. there are a number of songs that get me everytime I hear them, “The Wreck” especially, as I come for a seafaring family
(my dad was a lifeboatman for 20 years as well as a full time fisherman).
Posted by: Janine
Tons of songs make me cry but I can’t seem to think of any now. “Across the Universe,” there’s one.
Posted by: Michelle
Oh, Michelle nailed it with “Across the Universe.” That song gets me every time. And then there’s most of “Pet Sounds.” And “Little Green” by Joni Mitchell. On a less weepy topic, that baby is just too much. sigh.
Posted by: regina
“She Moved Through the Fair.” Kills me. And many of Gordon’s songs also get to me, the E-F song being one of them. Tom Rush’s version of Joni Mitchell’s “Urge for Going” also makes me a bit teary-eyed. And for the kind of thing that makes a mother of a girl get all smooshy and scared and want her baby to stay a baby, “Ma Belle Etoile,” on the Madrigaia album Pléaides. My husband always used to send me an e-mail saying simply “gluppssss…” when a song’s lyrics hit him where it counts, and it totally describes that feeling in your throat and chest when you hear a song like that.
But “Kathy’s Song” by Simon and Garfunkel…I mean, really, now, how can you not sniffle…
“And as I watch the drops of rain
Weave their weary paths and die
I know that I am like the rain
There but for the grace of you go I”
I think I might need to call my husband now….
Posted by: Lee Ann
Delurking (I’m trying to comment more – don’t know why I don’t when I enjoy and admire so many blogs, yoursis one of my faves) to admit that the song that gets me is Return to Pooh Corner by Kenny Loggins. I don’t know why – it makes me cry just thinking of it! And the Beatles’ In My Life….”But of all these friends and lovers, there is noone comepares with you….” Bah!!!!
Looking forward to the vest pattern (I loved the little robot! My 2nd son is 8 mo. and would love to play with Thumper!) Ever since I saw it I’ve had an insane need to knit matching vests for my boys. And I haven’t seen any patterns comperable out there.
Thanks for the entertaining blog!
JEN/NJ
Posted by: Jen
Get’s me every time! I am a big old cry baby anyway. My office is in the same complex with make a wish foundation and last week some little sick boy wanted to make a movie where he was a super hero who saved the world so they had all the power rangers and a red lambourghini and they filmed the movie on our property. The whole office was crying.
On a happier note, I can’t hear the U2 song With or Without You without wanting to totally neck with whoever happens to be standing next to me.
Posted by: Karen
I actually SAW the Edmund Fitzgerald going throught the Soo Locks the summer before she sank. (I am definitely showing my age, aren’t I.)
My mom even took a couple of pictures of it. Just some freighter going through the locks. We had no idea what would happen to it.
As for songs that get me teary eyed, “The End of the Innocence” does me in every time. I see my own life, starting from childhood, through to adulthood, and watching my father age, knowing I will lose him someday. Ack! I don’t want to think about it. I had better go knit something.
Posted by: Cookie
Holy crap, when did wee Thumper go Nordic? Cookie-face is just getting blonder and blonder.
I turn into a big ole crybaby for “Beeswing” by Richard Thompson. Always have. Always will.
Posted by: mindy
Re: the Edmund Fitzgerald, me, too. The line that gets me is: “Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?” Woof. gets me everytime… old Gordie may live in Rosedale (posh Toronto ‘hood), but I say he’s never lost his touch.
Posted by: caroline
Love the kimono. Nothing better to bring peace and prosperity to a baby. I want to knit a red one RIGHT NOW.
My husband and I have always loved Gordon Lightfoot. We were lucky enough to see him in Vancouver before we were married and chose his “Beautiful” for our first dance.
I endorse any teething biscuits that are not made of chemicals nor turn to cement after they are spread on everything.
Posted by: Angie
I grew up in the UP, not far from where the E.F. sank, I love the song for its timeless qualities. It never fails to give me chills. One that makes me cry would be Bonnie Raitt singing “I Can’t Make You Love Me”.
Posted by: Sarah
Oh, Michelle nailed it with “Across the Universe.” That song gets me every time. And then there’s most of “Pet Sounds.” And “Little Green” by Joni Mitchell. On a less weepy topic, that baby is just too much. sigh.
Posted by: regina
“She Moved Through the Fair.” Kills me. And many of Gordon’s songs also get to me, the E-F song being one of them. Tom Rush’s version of Joni Mitchell’s “Urge for Going” also makes me a bit teary-eyed. And for the kind of thing that makes a mother of a girl get all smooshy and scared and want her baby to stay a baby, “Ma Belle Etoile,” on the Madrigaia album Pléaides. My husband always used to send me an e-mail saying simply “gluppssss…” when a song’s lyrics hit him where it counts, and it totally describes that feeling in your throat and chest when you hear a song like that.
But “Kathy’s Song” by Simon and Garfunkel…I mean, really, now, how can you not sniffle…
“And as I watch the drops of rain
Weave their weary paths and die
I know that I am like the rain
There but for the grace of you go I”
I think I might need to call my husband now….
Posted by: Lee Ann
Delurking (I’m trying to comment more – don’t know why I don’t when I enjoy and admire so many blogs, yoursis one of my faves) to admit that the song that gets me is Return to Pooh Corner by Kenny Loggins. I don’t know why – it makes me cry just thinking of it! And the Beatles’ In My Life….”But of all these friends and lovers, there is noone comepares with you….” Bah!!!!
Looking forward to the vest pattern (I loved the little robot! My 2nd son is 8 mo. and would love to play with Thumper!) Ever since I saw it I’ve had an insane need to knit matching vests for my boys. And I haven’t seen any patterns comperable out there.
Thanks for the entertaining blog!
JEN/NJ
Posted by: Jen
Get’s me every time! I am a big old cry baby anyway. My office is in the same complex with make a wish foundation and last week some little sick boy wanted to make a movie where he was a super hero who saved the world so they had all the power rangers and a red lambourghini and they filmed the movie on our property. The whole office was crying.
On a happier note, I can’t hear the U2 song With or Without You without wanting to totally neck with whoever happens to be standing next to me.
Posted by: Karen
I actually SAW the Edmund Fitzgerald going throught the Soo Locks the summer before she sank. (I am definitely showing my age, aren’t I.)
My mom even took a couple of pictures of it. Just some freighter going through the locks. We had no idea what would happen to it.
As for songs that get me teary eyed, “The End of the Innocence” does me in every time. I see my own life, starting from childhood, through to adulthood, and watching my father age, knowing I will lose him someday. Ack! I don’t want to think about it. I had better go knit something.
Posted by: Cookie
Holy crap, when did wee Thumper go Nordic? Cookie-face is just getting blonder and blonder.
I turn into a big ole crybaby for “Beeswing” by Richard Thompson. Always have. Always will.
Posted by: mindy
Re: the Edmund Fitzgerald, me, too. The line that gets me is: “Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?” Woof. gets me everytime… old Gordie may live in Rosedale (posh Toronto ‘hood), but I say he’s never lost his touch.
Posted by: caroline
Love the kimono. Nothing better to bring peace and prosperity to a baby. I want to knit a red one RIGHT NOW.
My husband and I have always loved Gordon Lightfoot. We were lucky enough to see him in Vancouver before we were married and chose his “Beautiful” for our first dance.
I endorse any teething biscuits that are not made of chemicals nor turn to cement after they are spread on everything.
Posted by: Angie
I grew up in the UP, not far from where the E.F. sank, I love the song for its timeless qualities. It never fails to give me chills. One that makes me cry would be Bonnie Raitt singing “I Can’t Make You Love Me”.
Posted by: Sarah