Something in The Way She Moves, Me! | Parenting Post Divorce

• Posted: May 3, 2009
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• Author: Daniella
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• Filed under: Ask the Single Parent
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• Tags: divorce, love, mom, parent, parenting, parents, post divorce, relationship, smiles

It was not a typical Friday morning; I woke up from an odd dream and had no idea where I was nor what day it was. When I finally came to I realized it was Friday and remembered my daughter sleeps at her Dad’s every Thursday.  As I made my way out the door I also remembered the kids gather on the playground at her school for their weekly Friday assembly. I don’t often attend unless she’s receiving an award and mostly because it’s her Dad’s thing. But this Friday, for whatever reason, the pull was too strong and  if even a little selfishly and a bit late for work, I just had to see her!  In a sea of over 800 wide smiles, bright eyes, infectious laughs from Kindergartners to 5th graders, and handfuls of parents I excitedly walked onto the playground; from 65 feet away my daughter and I locked eyes. Our smiles ginormous, the moment brilliant and fills me in a way no other human being has. It reminds me of being in a new relationship, that defining moment where for the first time you realize you love your significant other. What an insane feeling! But love is not a feeling; it’s a verb!

If you haven’t yet noticed, I continue to search for meaning, in most things. But, today was different. I left the assembly on a high and this one line, “Something in The Way She Moves” played on a continuous loop in my mind, seriously, all day.  I walked and talked effortlessly beaming with genuine delight. (I think I might’ve even skipped to the beat. Ok, not really.)

I love music, can’t live without it! I have an eclectic taste; in fact if it moves me I like it. I Googled the line knowing full well it’s   from a Beatle’s tune then I came across a song I was not familiar with by James Taylor. It is every word the way my little girl moves me.

Something in The Way She Moves

There’s something in the way she moves,
Or looks my way, or calls my name,
That seems to leave this troubled world behind.
And if I’m feeling down and blue,
Or troubled by some foolish game,
She always seems to make me change my mind.

And I feel fine anytime she’s around me now,
She’s around me now
Just about all the time
And if I’m well you can tell she’s been with me now,
She’s been with me now quite a long, long time
And I feel fine.

Every now and then the things I lean on lose their meaning
And I find myself careening
Into places where I should not let me go.
She has the power to go where no one else can find me
And to silently remind me
Of the happiness and the good times that I know, got to know.

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The love I share with my babe is the deepest love I’ve ever known.  What’s more is that I know for certain those defining moment’s will never ever end!

Always,
Daniella

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