Humming a Strain

The Sand Box

We are new parents again.  Our daughter was born six months ago.  A good sleeper she is not.  I’ve tended to hold her each time she wakes up over the last few months until she drifts off again.  Now I realize that she will want to be held every time she wakes up.  It’s funny, I learned these lessons six years ago with our son, but, such is life.  Enter a new strategy.  I’ve never been the greatest of singers, but I recall a friend signing her son to sleep with a most touching lullaby when they visited a few years back.  So I thought I’d try humming.  

At first it was a bit aimless, three notes repeating, round and round.  It wasn’t working, she’d likely wake my son.  So I got a little louder, and broke into a song, “Shenandoah.”  The first strain carried her off to sleep. 

I share it here. (forgive the mistakes…)

Interesting to think how even tender minds need the extended order that emerges in a line of a tune.

(Endnote for all marketers: I love the humor in warning/advertensia in the image above…)