" My Life Has Been a Tapestry "

Carol King .
Remember her? She had an album (large c.d. for you younger folk) back in the seventies. I had this album and I loved the title song "Tapestry" .

I consider myself to be an adequate singer. Most of the time I can hold a tune. But there was a time or two or three that I had purposely sang off key. Those times came when my children, at one time or another, had irritated me to the point of screaming ! First I will type out the verse of the song that I sang. Remember I had purposely sang this verse out of tune and very loudly. Usually done when my children would drone on and on to the point that they would bring me to the edge of insanity.

I apologize to Carol King if I do not remember the lyrics word for word.
Here it goes.
Sung very purposely off key.

" My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue. An everlasting vision of an ever changing view. A wondrous woven tattered cloth in bits of blue and gold, a tapestry to feel and see , impossible to hold. "

It goes on , but I'm sure you get the idea. Singing this verse of the song as off key as I could, made my children cringe and give up on their tangent immediately. I would usually hear " Mom, stop!" , as they would stomp off into another room.

Mission accomplished.

I am not a cruel mother. But I do possess some ammo. I haven't had to use this in quite a while. Thank Heaven. But I will if I have to.
And trust me, you will want to run.

Lets just say that desperate times call for desperate measures. Those times when I became overwhelmed with life and young children, I turned to Carol.

Now, My reasoning behind this story tonight is not due to my thirty-one , twenty-eight, or fourteen year old's behavior. No . They have all behaved like perfectly fine human beings as of late.

Well except for Katie's consistently annoying question that I am hearing day after day. " When are you going to take me driving?".
I tried, after church Sunday. We will save this for another post.
I need to get over that incident first.

Thinking back to this unusual punishment of mine is surfacing from some challenges that I am facing right now. While I do pray often, I can't help but think that if I sing Carol's " Tapestry " Off tune , it might perhaps chase all of the bad things away.

So lets just say for now that " My Life Has Been a Tapestry ".