Music to Your Ears.

For today’s post, I wanted to compile a list of my favorite Beatles songs, a playlist for my life if you will. They are by Far my favorite band and have been ever since I can remember. My parents even played them for me when I was in the womb.

Some songs bring back so many memories for me. When I hear them, I’m taken back to a place when the world was right in my eyes, when I was a child. Sometimes I’m taken to another time in space, when flowers bloomed and love was all we needed. Some songs even bring a tear to my eyes or a smile to my face.

You might call me old fashioned, but I can honestly say that I haven’t heard a good song on the radio for some time now. About 6 years ago, I invested in a little gadget called an MP3 player. Mine is rather old, but it’s filled with the songs of my life. A good portion of my MP3 player is Beatles music. Sometimes I turn the radio on to listen to some classical music, or some 80’s rock, but rarely will you find me listening to the radio.

I have everything from The Rascals and the Grateful Dead, to SlipKnot and Rob Zombie. It’s a mixture of sorts with a little Dean Martin and Credence Clearwater Revival thrown in, with a splash of Neil Young here and there.

But I think the most important tunes on there, by far, are The Fab Four (aka The Beatles. haha). So I wanted to make a list of my favorite tunes from this amazing band. Maybe you’ve heard some of these songs, maybe you haven’t.

So without further ado, I give you, my all-time favorite Beatles songs.

o   Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite

o   I am the Walrus

o   Happiness is a Warm Gun

o   I’m so Tired

o   Blackbird

o   Glass Onion

o   Rocky Raccoon

o   Hey Jude

o   A Day in the Life

o   Because

o   For No One

o   I Will

o   Julia

o   Mother Nature’s Son

o   Within You, Without You

o   Fixing a Hole

o   Strawberry Fields

o   Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

o   The Ballad of John and Yoko

o   Helter Skelter

o   When I’m Sixty Four

o   Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

o   Tomorrow Never Knows

o   Good Day Sunshine

o   I Wanna Hold your Hand

o   Honey Pie

o   Wild Honey Pie

o   The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill

o   Sexy Sadie

o   I Want You (She’s so Heavy)

o   I’ll Cry Instead

o   All the Lonely People

Hanging out with John, Ringo, George, and the Walrus ( Paul),

The Meadow Mama

Moving Away from the Shadows.

A friendship that can end never really began. ~ Publilius Syrus.
Sometimes friends or family members come into our lives and enrich it..with beauty love and trust. Sometimes friendships can end abruptly, leaving someone hurt and feeling wounded and empty. Some friendships last a lifetime, through all of the ups and downs. Some friendships are like the seasons, they come and then they go.
I have found that in my life, I have had many friends. Some good, some toxic to the soul. I have watched many of my friends, flit in and out of my life, coming and going as they please. Sometimes leaving hurt and burden on me. Sometimes leaving for the better.
One thing can be for certain in this fickle world. What you have in this life, you will not take with you in the end. And the materialistic things, and friends, are only temporary. What I DO have now is my family, and a very choice few group of friends that help me through this day to day crazy thing called life.
I have grown tired of letting the hurtful words and actions of others rule my days. Whether it be friends or family, sometimes you have to get the negative out of your life.
Don’t live in the past, don’t look to the future, live in the RIGHT NOW.
If someone is hurting you or making you unhappy, address the situation. If that only worsens things, then step away. Step away from the negativity and live your life. Life is over all too soon. The Beatles said it best “ Life is very short and there’s no time for fussing and fighting my friend.”
I hope these words of encouragement have helped anyone who might need or benefit from them.
Healing hearts and words of encouragement,

The Meadow Mama

Father.

' Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness." – Aeschylus

I hope you all have been having a great week. I am excited about my hubby’s first Father’s Day!

We have some great weekend plans! I hope everyone remembers or visits their Father’s this Father’s day. If you don’t have a Father, or you were raised by someone else.. tell them thank you.. even if they aren’t your actual Father, it’s who brought you up that counts!

I will be remembering my Father this weekend. He was my best friend and I miss him every day.

I am so grateful that my husband is so wonderful to our daughter. I know they will make many memories together. I cannot wait for the day that I am out of the loop of one of their inside jokes, I’m excited for them to go to their first Father/Dance together, and I am glad for the day he will walk her down the aisle. Should she choose not to marry, I am glad to watch them stand hand in hand, living and loving their lives together.. a proud Papa and his baby girl.

Happy Father’s Day to you, your father, my father, and to whomever holds this special spot in your life,

The Meadow Mama

Wearing my baby.

Sorry about the M.I.A on this blog. I’ve been kind of busy lately..But I’m back now!!!

For today’s post, I want to talk about baby wearing. I am a firm believer, that the best way to bond with your child, is by wearing them.

I wear my little one around the house while doing chores, shopping, hiking…anytime that we aren’t playing with her…one of us is usually wearing her.

She loves it. We love it.. why not?

Now for a quick definition from Wiki:

Benefits of babywearing include:

Mothers' oxytocin is increased through physical contact with the infant, leading to a more intimate maternal bond,easier breastfeeding and better care, thus lowering the incidence of postpartum depression and psychosomatic illness in the mother; [2] similarly, the father carrying the baby has benefits for the paternal bond. Infants who are carried are calmer because all of their primal/survival needs are met. The caregiver can be seen, heard, smelled, touched, tasted, provide feeding and the motion necessary for continuing neural development,gastrointestinal and respiratory health and to establish balance (inner ear development) and muscle tone is constant. [3] Infants are more organized. Parental rhythms (walking, heartbeat, etc.) have balancing and soothing effects on infants. Infants are "humanized" earlier by developing socially. Babies are closer to people and can study facial expressions,learn languages faster and be familiar with body language. [4] Independence is established earlier. [3] Attachment between child and caregiver is more secure. [5] Decreases risk of positional plagiocephaly ("flat head syndrome") caused by extended time spent in a car seat and by sleeping on the back. Sleeping on the back is recommended to decrease the risk of SIDS. Cranial distortion resulting from non-vehicular time in car seats has shown to be more severe than in children who develop plagiocephaly from back-lying on a mattress. [6] Concern over plagiocephaly has also led the American Academy of Pediatrics to recommend that infants “should spend minimal time in car seats (when not a passenger in a vehicle) or other seating that maintains supine positioning." [7] None of the babywearing positions require infants to lie supine while being carried. Infants can even be worn while they sleep, also decreasing sleeping time spent in a supine position.

Studies of parent-child attachment, parental satisfaction and infant crying all point to babywearing as an ideal solution for most parents to provide an optimum environment for attachment between parent and child. Baby carriers and slings help increase the number of hours of day an infant is held, and there is an inverse relationship between the number of hours spend crying and the number of hours a child is held in a given day. Even 3 hours per day of babywearing reduces infant crying significantly, and at 13 months, babies who have been in soft carriers regularly are significantly more likely to be securely attached than babies who are carried in hard carriers. [8]

I have tried many carriers from the Moby Wrap, Bjorn, Ergo style, to the Mei Tai.. Mei Tai is my standing favorite right now. I guess you could say I am kind of addicted to wearing. But people have been addicted to much worse things.

I hope everyone has a wonderful day.

Wearing my baby,

The Meadow Mama