My Single Mom Life

I was sitting here yesterday watching some Schoolhouse rocks videos with Sebastian and it hit me, what a perfect Christmas gift for my nieces!
I remember watching Saturday morning cartoons in the 70's and during commercials, we not only saw all the toys we would later beg our parents for, but we were educated in 3 minute segments by Schoolhouse Rocks on a number of subjects like grammar, spelling, science and history, and many other subjects too.
Both of my nieces love music, and the songs in Schoolhouse Rock are short enough with easy lyrics and memorable tunes that they would sing along to.
Susan is in kindergarten and she knows all of the songs her teacher teaches her, she sings them all of the time my sister says, and it is really too cute.
About a month ago when they came to see me, she sang some song she learned in school, and oh how I wish I had videotaped it.
And Skye, Skye sings in the car all of the time!
They both love this kind of stuff so I was thinking about getting them the Schoolhouse Rock! (Special 30th Anniversary Edition) for Christmas.
It has all 46 of the Schoolhouse Rocks songs and cartoons.

Those of you who grew up during the 70's and early 80's, I know you know all of these, you can probably still sing along to them too.
All of the following links are to the videos on youtube, sing along, I bet you remember them all too!
We learned how bills become laws because of "I'm just a bill", we learned the preamble to our Constitution, we learned about conjunctions, nouns, interjections and adverbs, and so so many more things.

I think this dvd and a few little baby dolls or something else, will be my gift to the girls this Christmas.
It will be fun music they like to sing, and educational at the same time.
I know that I learned about taxation without representation from the "No more kings" one, and it is still one of my favorites.
I just watched Sufferin' Till Suffrage and wow, that was really educational.
Essra Mohawk is who did the singing on that one and many of the other Schoolhouse Rocks songs, she went on to work with many legendary artists like Frank Zappa, Jerry Garcia, and also wrote songs for artists like Cyndi Lauper and Tina Turner.
Pretty amazing lady who taught us about history and science, and has many, many accomplishments under her belt.

What was your favorite Schoolhouse Rock song?
It's really hard for me to choose, I love No more kings and the adverb song.
Lolly, Lolly, Lolly get your adverbs here,
Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, got some adverbs here.
Come on down to Lolly's, get the adverbs here!
You're going to need
If you write or read,
Or even think about it.