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Still like David Bowie ? Okay here is a treat for you......In England in the early 80's there was a beautiful animated film made called " The Snowman" beautiful and poignant, and bit sad, but heavenly music, the whole CD is beautiful., and David Bowie does the Introduction....( this is the first part of 3, click the Title, and it will link you to the Page and the Other Parts).This animated film is nothing like "Frosty"...Very special..rent it if you can...or atleast listen to the music....
Part One of The Snowman with the David Bowie Introduction:::
The Song "Walking on the Air" from The Snowman ( H/T to Fran...it did indeed need to be posted) By George Winston....
( Back Story...when I was pregnant with my son....VERY pregnant with my son, Christmas early Nineties....I was working a Pediatric Floor in Seattle...and there was a horrific Snowstorm that December, the group of us that went to work that Evening shift were trapped there....for 5 days, until the National Guard brought relief nurses and took us home....People brought us food and even clothes and extra blankets and popcorn, fruit, and people in the little neighborhood near by even brought us videos and movies and lights to fix up the Pediatric Floor, some of the little local eateries sent wonderful food and even homemade cookies....One of the movies that was brought to us by a British family was this movie....and we watched it over and over with Our Snowbound patients as we hung lights and made many paper snowflakes for the windows....this music played....)
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That was sweet. Your story reminded of something I hadn't thought about in a long time. When my first child was six months old she came down w/a severe case of croup. As a new mother I had no idea what it was I just saw she couldn't breathe. I rushed her to the ER. People in the waiting room were getting upset even watching her struggling to get a breath and everyone began to complain to the receptionist to take this poor baby right away. There were many people waiting and the staff seemed so unimpresssed by my dilema but with eveyones complaints they took her back. So my little baby Taylor and I spent out Christmas in a hospital. So depressing. People came by singing carols and nice things like that but it just made cry. Poor little baby in her croup tent crib and her poor little 21 year old mother who had all her hopes pinned on the first Christmas w/her first baby. Finally my mother came by the hospital (maybe the day after Christmas as she had a housefull of company) and said "Mary this is just the croup. You can make this tent on her crib at home. Get out of here. This is costing you money." Taylor would have bouts of croup while she was child and after that I would just go in the bathroom and turn on the shower or place a cool mist vaporizer in her room but WHAT a sad little Christmas that was.
That's really kind of a sad/sweet story about Xmas, E4E! Mary, yours almost made me cry here at work!
Speaking of Xmas cookies...
Anyone got a good recipe for the soft, soft, soft yummy butter cookies that usually have just a schmear of frosting on them? Not crispy sugar cookies, but BUTTER cookies?
A friend turned us on to this film when the kids were little. It is such a sweet story, and the art with it's muted tones is beautiful. My favorite part is the sequence when they fly over the Ocean- & the song they sing while flying-" Walking in the air".
That part is not shown in the clip you posted.
Your story is sweet-- people coming by to help the medical staff in a winter storm.
Definitely more heartwarming than the local robbery @ gunpoint of a GOODWILL store that happened in my town yesterday. Can you believe it???
Wow! Really beautiful.
My youngest was always so sad in the end, when he melts.
Awww that was nice of you to post the flying part.. I forgot about the beautiful aurora in it... but always loved the whales & that song.
Thanks!
Fran::
ahhh it is such a sweet song...I hummed it all night at work....
Sewmouse::
I too love Butter Cookies...will post by Friday...hmmmmm....good to see you ;-)
Mary::
ahhh Mary...such a sad story..I worked PEDS and ER for years...you were right to take your baby to the Hospital with croup, when they are little their airways are so vulnerable...and I am sorry you hit a lack of compassion ...and what a sad Christmas....I am so sorry....
((( When 6-6 was a babe he too got croup in December....and he actually was in the hospital for 10 days...it is not always resolved easily- they need nebulizer treatments with meds...it is not always solved with a Vaporizer- only sometimes...I thought for sure I was going to be sitting in the Mist tent with him in that crib on Christmas- they let us go home Christmas eve....btw the Mist tent also has Oxygen in it- there is NO way to set one up at home....you did good Mary Momma...you really did......)
That must've been some snow storm. Good thing there was the National Guard, and good-hearted neighborhood folks to think of those stuck in the hospital. I've only experienced snow on xmas a very few times. Lights strung on palm trees is just not the same.
Butter cookies, yummmmmm ...
DK::
It's funny about that snowstorm....I had only been in Seattle for a few years at the Time...moved there from New England, but to me it did not seem bad at all....but it paralyzed the city....they had over 20 Inches in 18 hours...and Seattle does not get snow like that....NW folks don't handle Ice and Snow well....esp if it hits quickly...they also don't have alot of Plows and salt trucks etc...
It's funny how Snow on Christmas is indeed a treasured thing...I have only seen it a handful of times....
yup Butter cookies...Friday...
you have the best stories!
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