One of the perks of my job is that I am able to work from home once in a blue moon, this of course means the world to Liam and Luka as I can pick them up from school and they don't have to walk the entire 600 meters home.
Today is again a work from home day, I was supposed to accompany the chairman on a lunch meeting. I had a leisurely housewife start to the day by going to Crossfit at 6am instead of the normal 5am and after dropping Luka at her school's holiday programme, I spent a couple of hours working in my gym clothes, then had a bath, washed and blow dried my hair, put on make up, a suit, and as I was about to leave the house my meeting was cancelled. So here I am sitting in my study all alone, all dressed up with nowhere to go, anyhow, I digress.
Liam is always the kid that goes to movies and out for pizza with other kids and their moms, I love these people, yesterday was no exception and a good friend took Liam along to movies and pizza. Seeing the opportunity to at least try and be a half cool mom to my kid I took Liam and his buddy Reuben to McDonalds.
Oh my, how very entertaining. Liam told us last night that Reuben's mom only listens to really cool rap music. He made us search for a song called "Earthquake" - its a song by DJ Fresh v Diplo Featuring Dominique Young Unique, I think. To put it in perspective, Gerhard, Liam and Luka love old school rock, I share their love for this, put I also enjoy a bit of pop, don't tell, don't judge but I even have a Justin Bieber song on my playlist now...
So Liam and Rueben get into the car, a mini, same as Reuben's mom and we go through a part by part comparison, Reuben's mom's car and my car are pretty equal because the fact that hers is bigger evens out with mine being able to take the top down, boys will be boys and all! Liam then says lets play Reuben some of my favorite music, lets play Queen. Liam gave the poor kid a blow by blow breakdown of Queen, Freddy Mercury, the legends, the fact that they were top of the charts for years and years, we started off by listening to "Another one bites the dust" followed by "Bohemian Rhapsody" all the time receiving live commentary. "Listen to this part Reuben, this is the really good bit" and poor Reuben just sat there waiting for the rap to start. Liam's explanation of "Bohemian Rhapsody" is actually rather amusing as he indicates that "it starts of lame, goes into pop, rock, lame and then rock again".
So to all the mothers of Liam's friends out there, please explain to your kids that there are some children like Liam who really enjoy older music, he will be that kid, the one listening to Queen, AC/DC, Metallica, it seems odd, but he just loves it, and he is such a genuine kid, he really thinks that this is the best music ever written. Even watching these weirdly dressed old rockers with their thinning tresses, leather pants, paunches, he still thinks that they rock. He also enjoys a bit of Rodriquez from time to time and he cringes when I play my one (yes only one I promise) Justin Bieber song. Please don't judge him too harshly by what he listens to as we his parents take full responsibility for our actions. I mostly blame Gerhard.
He proudly tells his friends that when he was still in my tummy, Gerhard and I played rock music to him and he happily kicked along, 100% true, I could not stop listening to "Live" when I was expecting Liam. Thank goodness this was before Justin Bieber was born, or Liam would probably have been given serious grief by his friends in a couple of years' time.
Liam, you can be so glad that you were born in the year 2008, because when we were growing up, AC/DC was banned, because a village idiot called Rodney Seale, who looked like an old rocker who had bad plastic surgery came to our schools and sold books to our unsuspecting Calvinistic parents telling them that AC/DC was actually code for "After Christ, Devil Comes". We were told that if you played some of these songs backwards and listened to the lyrics, you would hear the Satanistic messages recorded. Now Liam, in mommy's days we had to listen to music on tapes. Mommy tried absolutely every trick under the sun and there is just no friggen way that you can play a tape backwards. So I never quite got all the hidden messages. I always wondered about the meaning of songs like "You shook me all night long" and I can see you battling with some of these concepts yourself. My only word of advise, in this day and age, is to not become a Belieber ok. Lots of love. Mom
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