Beatles for Breakfast

I had the day off last Friday. It had been a long week. We all were fighting the flu, Cooper and Tilly stayed home from school two days and I tried to be at work and at home with them at the same time. Tilly was home one day last week, I am not sure what we had was H1N1 but two girls in my children’s ministry at church had been diagnosed and Tilly told me that the boy that sits across from her had been out for a week with what they thought was Swine Flu. My flu started last week and every couple of days a new symptom popped up. Runny nose, sore throat, horrible cough and then a retched stomach ache. I was glad it was Friday and even happier that it was my day off, although I was planning on working from home and going into work for a couple hours.

I decided that Friday morning was going to be special, we all needed some fun. I cranked up all my favorite Beatles tunes and decided it was going to be Beatles for breakfast. I belted out “Here Comes the Suns…doo da doo doo…” as I mixed up some pancakes, Tilly and I slow danced in the kitchen to “Let it Be” and “Yesterday” between flipping the pancakes on the griddle, we all “Coo Coo Ca Choo-ed” at the table, and we silly danced to “Get Back” and “Sgt Pepper”. My favorite moment was while I brushed Tilly’s hair, the kids both sitting on my bed, all 3 of us rocking back and forth singing “Ob La Di Ob La Da life goes on…oh Lalala life goes on”. Cooper and I looked up the guitar chords for a couple Beatles’ songs that he might learn to play. I was still singing the lovely ballad, “I will”, to them as we walked out the door for school. I think I played “Blackbird”, my all time favorite Beatles song twice (I was so inspired that I made a Pandora radio station off of “Blackbird” that I listened to while I worked on the computer later that morning).

It was a fun and memorable morning. Isn’t it nice to share something that you love with your kids? I am not even sure they knew I liked the Beatles before that day, I guess maybe I had forgotten too.