52 Weeks of Happiness Week 35

Paul Simon.

Live.

It was AMAZING.

One of my all time favorites came to Memphis for his new tour, and even though it was 45 degrees, on the Mississippi River, in an OUTDOOR amphitheater, I simply just dressed appropriately and wasn't too cold.

Oh, it was magic!! Kodachrome, 50 ways, Graceland, Here Comes the Sun, The Only Living Boy in New York, Sound of Silence, and Mother and Child Reunion to name a few...

Incredible music. Incredible experience.

52 Weeks of Happiness Week 30

I can't even describe the happiness I had this past Saturday night. The only wrench thrown in was that I wasn't able to have a date night with hubby, but it turned out to be exactly as it should have been. I took one of my closest friends to see my VERY favorite musical of all time...Les Miserables.

When I was 8, my parents took me and my sister to see the 3 hour long heavy musical. They wondered if I was too young.

Literally, I was on the edge of my seat and didn't want to blink to miss a moment.

The music has captured me since. I saw it again when I was 10, then 15, then 20, and not since. It had been so very influential and beautiful to me, that I cried a little more each time I saw it. By the fourth time (and this past Saturday), I cried off an on (through the entire production) as soon as I heard the first notes. It's a part of my childhood that has grown with me and I have taken in my heart for 20 plus years.

The 25th anniversary showed many set changes, but the music still rang as beautiful as the day I remember and first saw it. Song after beautiful song, I am truly entranced.

Words could never do justice to what the music does to my soul, to my heart. I burst with its with beauty and the release I feel from the tears I cry is just a bonus.

Here is the marquee for this week's picture.



THIS was bliss.

52 Weeks of Happiness Week 15

I've been completely immersed in being a mom since school has gotten out for the summer that I've fallen behind with blogging, but I'm completely determined to not miss a week of happiness! :)

Because I'm so happy being immersed in my little guy, I have a plethora of things to choose from for this week. Rigby went to his first concert, and I think the special-ness of this event deserves the honor of being the subject of this week's happiness post.

The Levitt Shell in Memphis has quite a history. It's the place of Elvis' first paid concert, and, funny enough, all the concerts now there are free.

Mom, little guy, and several friends came out to hear Bob Dorough of Schoolhouse Rock fame. It was wonderful. Plain and simple!

This week's picture? Not tremendously memorable, but the event sure was.