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Originally Posted by jacinda
That would be fine.
Other ideas:
Scrap about favourite songs from your teen years
Songs played at your wedding
What song you walked down the aisle to at your wedding, or did first dance to
Songs your kids dance along to
Certain songs bring back memories of times past. List some songs and what you recall when you hear them on the radio. E.g. One song takes you back to your teen years hanging out at the lake with friends. Another song reminds you of the time you broke up with a boyfriend etc.
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I laugh because if you knew my childhood, I wasn't allowed to listen to music. The first time I really ever started listening to music was after we got married and even then it was only in the car!
We don't dance. None of us have rhythm!
I just laugh because music was such a no-no growing up that I have a hard time incorporating it in our family. When my oldest wanted to start listening to music a little over a year ago, that seemed so foreign to me. Why would you want to sit in your room and listen to music doing nothing else? My husband was overseas and on one his phone calls I asked him, "is this something we allow?" Now, who knows what she listens to because she clears it with her father. If she cleared it with me, it'd be a no. I am trying to play the Christian Radio Station back in DC on my computer but I mostly tune it out and it's just "noise" when I'm doing something. I know, I'm strange. If you were ask my husband he'd say I was raised by the Amish!
Thank you for the many ideas!! I'll have to be creative with this one for sure!
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Originally Posted by lingovise
lol, Wendy... obviously I've probably read far too many Jane Austen novels and must admit to being a bit of a history nut. I think the first time I ever read about Dance Cards was in " Anne of Green Gables" by L. M. Montgomery. Dance cards were very small booklets used by women at formal dances in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Most were decorative and had long strings so women could wear them on their wrists or attach them to their gowns. Dance cards were used to record women's dance partners. You really haven't ever heard the expression "How full is your dance card?" if not, you're making me feel reallyreally old!! Anyhow... for anyone that is unfamiliar with them, this small article on the Syracuse University site is pretty cool and there's actually quite a lot of information about them to be found on the internet. I know... I'm rambling, but this sort of stuff fascinates me [total dork!].
But in answer to your question, Yes! You can simply scrap about anything music related. ♥
ETA : Loads of great ideas from Jacinda! |
I never heard of that phrase. I don't know where I'd hear it from either. Although I do find it funny that at one of my daughter's appointments this week, I was watching Kate and Leopold on my ipad (her appointments are an hour long). And I noticed they used the term "Dance Card" I about fell out of my chair laughing! I never noticed it before even though I've seen the movie maybe a dozen times! Now you mention Anne of Green Gables, I wonder if they talked about it in the movies and I never picked up on it!
So in all seriousness, do people still make/do dance cards? Or was this just a 19th, early 20th century thing?
And no, I don't mean to make you feel old. I'm sure I'm older than you. I was just raised in a sheltered childhood and never really branched out from there in to my adult years. I'm off to read the article you linked me up to, since this one is a new word for me!