My father was the obnoxious waker-up in the family. He was always gone at the crack of dawn during the work/school week, but on the weekends, no sleeping in for us, no sir. "You're wasting the day!", he would bellow, channelling the drill sergeant-major from his RAF days.

Now, as a retired person, he's seldom out of bed before 9am and I am a confirmed, dyed-in-the-wool night owl/sleeper-in.

Good Morning Song my mom sang:

Good Morning Mary Sunshine!
Why do you wake so soon?
You frightened all the stars away!
And chased away the moon!

To this day, I'm not sure if she was saying that Mary Sunshine was really ugly and if so, why did she sing it to ME??? Implication that I was ugly enough to scare away stars and moons??

Singing mothers. Weird.

I am almost completely uninterested in series tv this year, it seems, and it makes me sad. I just started watching Alias, but can't really get in to it, tried Grey's Anatomy, but wasn't into it, etc., etc. Not being home most evenings doesn't help, either. I just feel so cut off from the community!!

My must-watch-on-the-night-of TV shows right now are Survivor and I just got into Arrested Development.

Singing mothers. Weird.

Well, not all of us can have the sooper cool moms who fling rats around by their tails. Believe me, I'd rather have the rat flinging as a kid than the "You're so ugly, you caused the heavens to disappear" song singing mom.

My kids are sort of cute when I have to wake them up. Leif just collapses on my shoulder, and Emaryn sort up communicates in grunts before she gets up and wanders around like a zombie.

Singing mothers. Weird.

My mom sings all. the. time. It's like being in my own private Rogers & Hammerstein hell. Her usual morning song was "O What A Beautiful Morning" from Oklahoma! Oy. AND oi.

Dear Aimee - nothing in that song says anything about ugly. People scare animals without being ugly.

Sometimes I make up songs I sing to the kids, like "It's Baaaaath Tiiiiiiime". More often, I talk only in rhymes and see how long it takes them to notice it.

My must-watch-on-the-night-of TV shows right now are Survivor and I just got into Arrested Development.

For me this year, it is 24, Deadwood, Battlestar Galactica and as much as possible, The Daily Show. Eyes sounds interesting. I might see if I can fit it in.

ETA: my dad was the singer around our place. My mum never had much faith in her singing voice, I guess. My old man was quite the guy when he was younger, even when my sister and I were growing up, before he got beat down by life, I guess. People want others to hide that light under a bushel basket, real bad.