When I was little – eight years old, to be exact – a movie came out that provided a good portion of the soundtrack of my childhood.
Dirty Dancing came out in 1989, I think, and its music quite literally was a theme in the motion picture of my younger years. My younger sister Ashley and I would dance around my parents’ house to “The Time of My Life,” “Stay,” “Love is Strange,” and “Be My Baby,” (if you can imagine such a sight). We would even argue over who got to be Baby and who, to their chagrin, had to be Penny. Our favorite scene to reenact was the one on the log in the woods, where Baby is learning balance and poise. Classic. (I'm kinda surprised we were allowed to watch the movie in the first place, but I think my parents realized we were clueless as to most of what was going on and that we really just liked the music.)
I downloaded the Dirty Dancing soundtrack on iTunes yesterday and the flashbacks began. It got even more poignant when, as I was listening to it while cooking supper, Leah got fussy and somewhat inconsolable. In an effort to soothe her, I began dancing with my daughter around the kitchen to the very same songs I used to dance to with my sister, twenty years ago. It’s come full circle. Scary.
2 of your thoughts:
Cute story! Did the dancing help Leah?
I wasn't allowed to watch that movie when I was little. I don't think my parents even watched it but they saw the word "Dirty" and assumed it would be filled with evil things...and it did have some, but mostly it wasn't. In any case, I have seen it since then but it hasn't really stuck with me so I don't remember the log scene. I remember the dance number at the end being pretty sweet though, and Patrick Swaze being cute too :-)
Oh, and Nina is in Alaska so I can't really tell her about the plantar thing. Maybe you should email her so she'll get it when she gets back? Or write a blog about it because she's pretty faithful about reading the blogs she's missed. She sat for an hour in my kitchen catching up on mine the other day. I thought it was funny because I was right there :-D. But I had said a lot more in the blogs than I would have remembered to tell her in person, you know?
Do you remember how it was that Angelia and I saw Dirty Dancing the first time? We had free passes to see some Christian movie at the theater where Quest now is. There was such a line that we decided to go ahead and see whatever it was at the other theater. Surprise!!
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