Lee Jr. with Music and Dance Class!
Lee Aldrich Jr. is fourth from left of boys in the first row . Seems like they are having so much fun listening to the photographer, telling them how to pose!
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Music Lessons say “I Love You!”
Lee Aldrich Jr. at the keyboard. Music lessons for my sons was the best investment in the amount of love for music they have personally received!
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MUSIC MAKES MY DAY!
Music is the mainstream of all life. If you take time to listen to your world as you travel through the seasons of life, you cannot say you hear nothing. Every step you take on the street where you live, your ears are picking up all kinds of sounds.
Let’s start with the beginning of the day. You or someone in the household has set the alarm clock to go off at a certain time early in the morning. For instance, in my home, my husband had to be at our restaurant to open up and have the coffee urns singing a wonderful smelling song of the delicious smell of fresh coffee perk, perking and customers waiting patiently! The sounds of the waitress handling the cups and saucers and the pouring of the coffee, and then the customer adding sugar and cream and all the stirring and sip and sipping. Only the best wake up music to the ears, with the eyes really opening and now everyone can do the “March song” of making the body move so very fast to the office!
Back on the home front, I am fixing breakfast for the boys going to school, and at the same time I hear the baby calling out a distress signal, which could mean “I need to be changed, NOW!” And then that follow-up call will be “I’m hungry and I feel better when I do not have to wait!” So, I grab a spoonful of something to energize myself and keep on moving and doing pickup of stuff as I move from room to room, because no step can be made without it being a “Tidy-Up” as I go, since there are all kinds of chores that I have planned to do.
This is how the general day starts and every move has a quick step of dance to the sounds of music, because what I hear keeps me going and doing everything just as fast as I can. It’s either keep in step with the work – I’ve plan or find myself dragging by early afternoon?
Music by “Scott Joplin and “Jelly Roll Morton” has the “beat that I like” to keep my feet – up in the air – moving on “Cloud Nine” as I do my housework! “Music – moves – these – feet! ! !”
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Music Makes me – More “ME!”
“The proof is in the pudding!” When you can ask your child to play some of the music you love to hear and they can just sit down at the piano anywhere and start making the music that puts you in “Seventh Heaven” – a place where all your cares and woes of this world – just fade away!
When my sons were in first grade at school, I started taking them to Hamilton Music Store, so that they could take piano lessons. At the time I really had no idea that they would ever really like learning and also memorize the songs they were learning to play.
The other night the radio was on and some Scott Joplin music – the “Maple Leaf Rag” which just happens to be one of my favorites was just what I like – so I ask my son, Al if he could play that or some of the other tunes that he knows that I enjoy? I went into another room for a minute and just that fast the radio was off and Al was sitting at the piano and playing the “Maple Leaf Rag” and just one piece of music after another. I was enjoying the best of music and right there in the comfort of my own home.
If it is at all possible for young children to learn to play the piano and or any other instrument of their choice. I believe that we parents should strive for that – more so than any other thing in life, that children have an opportunity to learn about music. It is so good for each person to be able to make music, alone or with friends at any time of their life.
I am grateful and thankful that Almighty Yahweh, enabled me to start my children early in a musical field to participate alone and also to entertain their old parents, and that would be me!
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Bus Strike – Ride Bike!
Rosati Kain – Freshman uniform – Bus strike, so this will be my transportation to high school on 4300 Lindell Boulevad. The bus strike lasted a week and I with my school books rode the bike each day. The Dunce Hat is just for laughs, especially since I have my school cap thrown on top. Everything I was doing was just for fun and laughs. No one at Rosati Kain thought I really would ride a bike to school! But, I DID! Mickey McLaren rides again!
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One – Big – Happy Day!
Denny Sr., my Father, Mary Ellen – Me, and Denny Jr., my brother.
A couple years before “Graduation Day” – the afternoon that we – some of the gals in my class – had nothing better to do – we decided to give each other nick-names – and that is when I was called “MICKEY” and it just – hung on and on – to be a good nick-name – which some of my friends still call me. It has a terrific “ring” with my last name “MICKEY McLAREN” – what do you think???
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