Music Appreciation

This post has no pictures. This post will be just me and my reactions to what I saw and experienced tonight at dinner. We were all eating dinner together and then James asked for the Banjo music. The banjo music is Mumford and Sons. Banjo people is the song James loves. It's the second track. I think it's called Cave. Anyway, tonight he asked to listen to it. I smiled because Doug thinks we got the cd because I like them ... not James. But tonight, I smiled and said to Doug, "See? James likes them."

So we were all listening and then James asked for the music to be louder. Then I watched him. I watched him turn his body to face the speakers on the other side of the room and listen. His head slowly bobbed with the beat and when the chorus was sung and the banjos and guitars played louder, he turned and looked at me and smiled. It was a smile that I've seen but from the inside. It looks amazing from the outside. It's the smile that a music lover has when it's that song. The song you could hear again and again. Even better is when it's that part of the song that you love. The part that moves you and the part that you could listen to all day. I saw that look on my child's face tonight and it literally brought tears to my eyes.

Strange as it may sound, I love music and love that my son loves music. It's parental pride I suppose. I hope so much that I've passed on to James the good that's in me. Right now though, I feel so blessed that we have this connection. I can't wait for him to come home one day with music that he's found and loves and say to me, "Mom - you gotta listen to this."