Day 285 – Fun Clapping

This evening as we were getting ready to go out to dinner, I was trying to decide what I wanted to do for my intention. I thought about how Heather and I used to play those fun hand clapping kind of games when we were little. Vinny and Micah were sitting there and I started sharing some of the songs with them that Heather and I used to sing while clapping our hands together, snapping our fingers etc. in a choreographed routine. They were so popular back then and we would learn them at school and share what we learned when we were hanging out. We had so many like Ms. Mary Mack, Bubble Gum Bubble Gum in a Dish, Down Down Baby, Patty Cake, When Susie was a Baby and so many more.

I got Vinny up and started showing him how the songs and routines went. We were hitting our hands together and clapping as I sang the songs - he is such a great sport! Anyhow at one point, I couldn’t remember one of the songs that was actually one of Heathers’ favorites- I could only remember the ending. So I picked up the phone and called my sister. She immediately started singing her favorite one called Bo-Bo Ski Watten. OMG I started cracking up because as soon as she started singing it, I could hear her clapping in the background and I chimed right in and sang the rest of the words with her. I never would have remembered that one on my own. We were laughing so hard!! Then she started rambling off so many others and we were both amazed at her memory.

She was at the mall with her friend Rebecca when I called and even she got in on the fun. So I asked my sister to take a picture of them doing the fun clapping to a song and she did. In fact, when we talked later tonight, she said she even called one of our brothers and he remembered a bunch of them too and said his daughters know all of those routines.

What’s fun about this blog on days like today is getting others involved in my memories and intentions. We all got to walk down memory lane and had so much fun in the process all while keeping the memory of Heather fresh in our minds. #misshersomuch #HGAL