![]() ![]() on the other hand, i enjoyed our time together so much, i didn’t want the day to end. on the one hand, i was wiped out: parenthood is exhausting at times, and i wanted girlfriend to conk out so i could get a moment to myself. see, the song perfectly captured my ambivalence toward nighttime as a mom. pity, too, because i then found a lovely cover of it by suzanne vega (ignore the grim video), but no dice. the girl didn’t seem to like one song: stay awake. it became a nightly staple only, too bad for me. BC had received this baby disney CD as a gift, and she really started to love it. she remembers hearing a lot of chim chim cheree.Īnyway, i rediscovered the song stay awake quite by accident. My mother also tells me that when i was being born, the hospital was piping in music. back then, julie andrews always ended up in a happy ending: hell, only a year later, she escaped the nazis! so a stodgy english banker had nothing on the divine ms. i’m thinking julie andrews and dick van dyke singing and dancing all the way through had something to do with that. but there are degrees of awfulness, i think and mary poppins never really scared me. sure, there are ones that left me scarred for life ( bambi and dumbo, i’m talking about you.) and of course, there’s a certain predictability in their storylines: you know that in the first 20 minutes, something awful is going to happen. That being said, i do love me some disney movies. ![]() (and even had some happy moments to share, because like most of their cartoons, disney’s prefab experiences are never black and white.) the kids, however, really enjoy going so once every so often, we trek down to florida so that we can hear american singing we can spend absurd amounts of cash on items that my kids will begbegbeg for and then probably forget about within one week of our return home we can all have fun as a family in that magical world. I Love to Laugh (From 'Mary Poppins'/Soundtrack Version) Ed Wynn, Julie Andrews & Dick. and ranted yet again about our trips to disney. Stay Awake (From 'Mary Poppins'/Soundtrack Version) Julie Andrews. Those of you who’ve been around here for awhile know i’m pretty ambivalent about disney, disney world, and everything remotely related to walt’s creations. ![]()
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