Sometimes the most special gifts of love can be time given over to do something for your spouse. This is what Mick has been up to lately.
In our house we have a collection of 78s (For those younger one among you – these are the highly breakable records that came out many, many years ago) I’ve had this collection of 78s handed down from my mother. They’ve been packed and carefully moved from house to house each time we moved, and then carefully stored again, because I couldn’t bear to part with them. But the problem was they never got played.
Many of them are songs that were particularly meaningful to my mother and to my father. Even though I was into the rock music of the time, I adored this old music too, especially the ballads of the time. But playing records these days seems like such a waste of time, even if you can find a record player equipped to take this old time records. But now, my darling husband has solved the problem.
Mick saw a record player that would take the 78s advertised at a shop and bought it. It took him a while to get to it, as he was busywith other things, but then together we spent time sorting through and choosing those songs in particular I liked and those he liked. Then he painstakingly set about playing, recording them and creating a couple of CDs for me of all those songs. What a labor of love from my darling husband as it took him a number of days and many hours of work to get through the records. One CD alone has over 130 songs on it!
There is no way I could have done it. I wouldn’t know where to start to produce a CD. But Mick figured it all out and set to work. I’ve been in my element, as I go off to choir or wherever I’m driving, singing along at the top of my voce( with the windows closed of course) in the car. What a great joy it has been to listen and sing along to those old songs again.
I’d love to hear from you of something special your spouse has done out of love for you or maybe something you have done out of love for your spouse that has required a concentrated effort of time and skills.
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