Last night we had the joyous experience of going to Ally's last voice recital...
Kind of a bittersweet moment... after 22 years (including Sarah) of lessons, sporting events, school programs, recitals, shows...
Of course it won't ever end... but my time as the mother who reminds her child that she needs to be somewhere in 5 minutes or she needs to turn off the TV and study is coming to an end.
Anyway... she chose to sing 'For Good' from Wicked... many tears were shed, but she made it through... and the rest of us barely did.
Soo sad her mother thought she was recording the whole thing... I swear the little red light had blinked... :-(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQJaZO2nfGg
I'm limited
Kind of a bittersweet moment... after 22 years (including Sarah) of lessons, sporting events, school programs, recitals, shows...
Of course it won't ever end... but my time as the mother who reminds her child that she needs to be somewhere in 5 minutes or she needs to turn off the TV and study is coming to an end.
Anyway... she chose to sing 'For Good' from Wicked... many tears were shed, but she made it through... and the rest of us barely did.
Soo sad her mother thought she was recording the whole thing... I swear the little red light had blinked... :-(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQJaZO2nfGg
I'm limited
Just look at me - I'm limited
And just look at you
You can do all I couldn't do
So now it's up to you
For both of us - now it's up to you...
I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you...
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good
It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend...
Like a ship blown from it's mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
Because I knew you
I have been changed for good
And just to clear the air
I ask forgiveness
For the things I've done you blame me for
But then, I guess we know
There's blame to share
And none of it seems to matter anymore
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Like a ship blown from it's mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a bird in the wood
Who can say if I've been
Changed for the better?
I do believe I have been
Changed for the better
And because I knew you...
Because I knew you...
Because I knew you...
I have been changed for good...
And just look at you
You can do all I couldn't do
So now it's up to you
For both of us - now it's up to you...
I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you...
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good
It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend...
Like a ship blown from it's mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
Because I knew you
I have been changed for good
And just to clear the air
I ask forgiveness
For the things I've done you blame me for
But then, I guess we know
There's blame to share
And none of it seems to matter anymore
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Like a ship blown from it's mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a bird in the wood
Who can say if I've been
Changed for the better?
I do believe I have been
Changed for the better
And because I knew you...
Because I knew you...
Because I knew you...
I have been changed for good...
..............................
And then today I opened my email to find this from Ally's voice teacher:
I just adore Ally, and all of you. Thank you so much for letting me spend time with her bright ray of light these past few years. You have done such a great job raising an amazing daughter who is so beautiful and caring and just someone who makes the world a better place. Thanks for the beautiful flowers, they make me smile every time I walk into the room.
xoxo
Ally and her darling voice teacher...
