Musical Mommy

I will SING to you!

Mommy grew up with lots of music. We will have plenty of uplifting music in our home. Music is such a great way to bring the Spirit. If you are ever faced with temptation, hopefully you will have some hymns and good songs memorized so you can "change the channel" and totally avoid those temptations.
Music is away to praise the Lord. 

Doctrine and Covenants Section 25 v.12:

"For my soul delighteth in the song of the heart, yea, the song of the righteous is a prayer unto me, and it shall be answered with a blessing upon their heads."     
Grandma Kitto sang to me every night. She would sing:  
Angel Lullaby from a play entitled My Turn on Earth.

  I will sing this to you too! Here are the lyrics:

You came from a land where all is light
to a world half day and a world half night.
To guide you by day, you have my love,
To guard you by night, your friends above.
(Chorus)
So sleep, sleep, till the darkness ends,
guarded by your angel friends.
So sleep, sleep, till the darkness ends,
guarded by your angel friends.


There's one stands softly by your bed
and another sits close with a hand on your head.
There's one at the window watching for the dawn,
and one waits to wake you when the night is gone.

You will love that song just like I did, and you will make me sing it all the time! I will be happy to sing to you and sit next to you and rub your back, or tickle your face and arms until you fall asleep. 

My brother and sisters and I grew up listening to Brite Music, and I will play this for you as well!

I learned about happiness, service, gratitude, dependability, being healthy, love, honesty, and much more from these tapes, and the songs never leave my mind. I still sing certain songs from those tapes.Whenever I have an experience, I can refer to a song from the Brite tapes that totally relate. Wow, I just realized you may not know what a tape is! Well I will show you! Often when Mom was in trouble Grandma Kitto would play those tapes for me to get a better spirit and to teach me about whatever I was struggling with. (It was usually the happiness or gratitude tape.) 

And of Course you will know the Primary songs! We will always sing them! They will be really helpful when you are afraid, or need comfort, or you want to sing for fun. 

 (That is what they book looked like in my day. )

My favorite primary song was A Child's Prayer. I love it! I also love I'm trying to be like Jesus. Those are such good songs. Those songs bring the spirit into the home. They also make you happy!

Also I can't forget the Hymns! They are wonderful! We sing from this in Sacrament meeting, in Family Home Evening, and whenever you want or need! 

This book makes mommy so happy. I love many songs in this book. I Know That My Redeemer Lives is one of my favorites. I also love Be Still My Soul, and Come Follow Me. At my funeral (don't worry I'm fine, I just have the song planned out already) I want the congregation to sing- Each life that Touches Ours For Good. It's so beautiful.

I will also sing to you from Musicals! 
There are so many fun and inspiring songs in musicals. 

I will sing to you songs from Children of Eden.

Auntie Kimmy was in this play! 

There are great songs from this play, and it is a very great show. I cried most of the way through it! Very touching.

I will also sing to you songs from  
Thoroughly Modern Millie.

I was in this play when I was in High School! Miss. Dorothy Brown was my character name:). She has a very fun role! I will show you this play!

I will also sing to you from many other musicals such as:

Wicked, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Hairspray, Little Mermaid, Lion King, Guy's and Dolls, My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, Hello Dolly, She Loves Me, The Music Man, South Pacific, Annie, Bye Bye Birdie, and much more!

I love Musicals! They will really culture you! You will learn to appreciate the ARTS:)  

Yes I will let you have your own music taste, but hopefully if you listen to enough good music then you'll be fine!

When I was little Gandma Kitto took away a Christina Aguilera CD that my sister got for her birthday one year. It was taken away because there were some things in the music that she didn't think were very appropriate for my age. 

I hope that in our house we can keep the music uplifting! But I will have you know that you're momma can be hip too, and by hip I mean- I listen to hip hop when I work out, and I try to make sure all that music is clean too, but it's definitely not as easy when it's that genre! Guess what I will try hard for you to be very strict in my music! I've worked really hard, and now I'll work even harder to be a better example!
Kids, you are going to love music, because you come from a background of music lovers- don't go against what you know is in you! Haha I can't wait until you can sing and then we can sing together!
But as always, I will keep singing to you!
I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my babies you'll be!