It’s for you…

Hubs got me my first cell phone about two weeks before JM’s due date. He wanted me to be able to call him from anywhere if I went into labor and wasn’t at home. We had the phone for about two weeks. JM continues to be very prompt to this day.

Before that, I never wanted a cell phone. I thought they were intrusive and didn’t think I would ever use it. Was I ever wrong.

Now, if I’ve left the house and forgot my phone, I will turn around and go back home to get it. I feel almost naked without it. If I can’t reach Hubs or one of my children on the first call attempt, I get obsessed with calling them, continually, until they pick up.

With all the features that today’s phone offer ~ caller ID, texting, voice mail ~ one of the most fun is the ability to download songs as ringtones. Everyone can have their own theme song. How cool it that?

Each of my peeps has a special song that when I hear it playing, I immediately think of them. So, for this post, I give you ringtones for my family and me.

The boy and I have a unique dynamic. We can joke around about almost anything.

We share a disturbing love of ‘Your mama…’ and ‘… that’s what she said’ jokes. There have been occasions that we’ve even made Hubs blush.

I can drift JM’s Neon around rain slick ess-curves, and am honing my reputation as a kick-ass mother. I am the cool parent.

So, when deciding on a ringtone that would be appropriate to fully demonstrate the loving, nurturing and motherly connection WK and I have, I give you this heartwarming tune.

(Here is also little family secret ~ WK goes by his middle name. He shares a first name with his dad.)

JM has always been an ‘I can do it myself’ kind of kid. I think that was actually the first full sentence she said.

She has an strong independent spirit and a drive to become her own person. This sense of self-assuredness has on occasion been a little difficult to accept, especially when she wasn’t even a teenager.

Now, that she’s moving into her own place, taking the next step in living totally on her own, JM is taking control of her life.

The version of this song is a bit different, but then, so is JM.

I’ve told you all before about how I believe that I dreamed about Hubs well before we met. I didn’t even tell him about this dream until we had been together for quite awhile. When this song was released in 1999, more than 10 years after we were married, and more than 15 years after that dream, I finally told him about it.

Even though this song is exceptionally cheesy, it’s the perfect tune to explain what I felt.

[audio http://www.billandchelle.com/slow songs Savage Garden - I Knew I Loved You.mp3]

I tried to think of a song that best personified me. One that if heard, anyone would immediately know that the call was from me. 

Since this song, and my affection for it, had such a profound effect on WK, and because whenever I hear it I crank the radio to 11, I pick this song as my ringtone.

My mom always reminded me of Julie Andrews, especially as Mary Poppins. If you ever read the P. L. Travers books, you would probably be surprised to learn that she was nothing like the Disney character. My mom was the nice one.

My dad and I have had a tumultuous relationship. It took many years after he and my mom finally separated for me to learn to like him again. In those intervening years he grew up a lot and I came to the realization that there are many things I have no control over and to let those things mess with my head was hurting no one but me. 

It may be an unease friendship at times, but I can say my dad and I are friends again. Can’t trust him any further than I can throw him, but we’re friends.

I have only one biological brother and we don’t, have never and will never, get along. I don’t know what it is about me that he doesn’t like, but I could fill a book about him. Suffice it to say I think he is an arrogant, judgmental and pompous ass.

Now it’s your turn… what song would you ~ have you, picked for your personal ringtone, or tones for your peeps?