Dreamer

When you were in high school trying to figure out what you wanted to do with your life, what was your dream? You are going to laugh at mine.

Have you ever watched a movie or a TV show and the perfect song comes on at the ideal moment? The music draws you in, and you’ve made an emotional connection to the scene, characters, and storyline. Who picks those songs? I wanted to be that person. I wanted to be the person that determines the perfect song to go with the perfect scene and creates this emotional response in people. I’ve always wondered how the person decides on a song for the perfect scene.  

As I write this, I work in Human Resources at a research laboratory, raising three wild and crazy boys and being a wife to a loving man, and who drives me crazy.  I’m far from my dream as the person who picks the perfect song for the perfect moment, but a girl can dream. 

If my life were ever a movie, I’ve gone through and picked songs for major events. Now I’m sure that my life would be a horribly boring movie, but it was fun to pick the songs for my life. To my friends, if you need a playlist for my funeral, I’ve saved you the grief of having to put something together! (HAHA!)

Birth ( I can only imagine this is what my parents thought haha): Isn’t she Lovely- Stevie Wonder

Childhood: Young- The Chainsmokers

High school: Weekend-Mac Miller

Clark and I meeting for the first time: P.Y.T – Michael Jackson

Going off to college: I’m Like a Bird- Nelly Furtado

Clark’s mother passing: Yesterday- The Beatles

Dating Clark through the years: Breed-Nirvana

Wedding: At Last-Etta James

Rocky marriage during my deployment: Ordinary People- John Legend

Deployment song played on repeat: Coming Home: Diddy feat Skylar Grey

Coming home after deployment to find my parents were divorcing: The House that Built Me- Miranda Lambert

Our Marriage: A thousand years- Christina Perri

Our three boys being born:  Lullaby- The Chicks

Parenthood: Sweetest Devotion-Adele

Present Day, so grateful for this life that I’ve been blessed with:  (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay- Otis Redding

Funeral (I know it is morbid):  Somewhere over the rainbow- Katharine McPhee ; Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone) by Pentatonix

Now, the next time you watch a movie and the perfect song comes on you are going to be wondering who picked the perfect song for the perfect moment.