'a couple of kooks hung up on romancing'

Here we are, three years ago today!






Tonight, we'll be in our ever-romantic childbirth class, followed by anniversary cake. Tomorrow night we'll celebrate over dinner at Solera, where our favorite local band, The Owls, will be playing upstairs afterward. Steve planned the evening, and I can't wait!

We sat and talked for a long time this morning over breakfast and coffee. It was happy, hopeful talking, the kind that leaves me feeling that all is right with our little world. We talked about our three years together, our future, our goals for parenthood, our hopes and dreams (to steal an album title from The Owls). We talked so long that we were late for work. But it was worth it.

And on the way into work, I listened to one of my all-time favorite songs — Kooks by David Bowie — which is on one of my all-time favorite albums, Hunky Dory. (Steve is a Bowie fan, too.) I've loved this song for many years, since I first heard it in my sophomore year of college, and I've waited a long time to play it for our future baby. As I listened in the car, I realized that it fits our quirky personalities perfectly, even if we don't actually plan to throw our son's homework on the fire. Here's how it goes:

Will you stay in our lovers' story
If you stay you won't be sorry
'Cause we believe in you
Soon you'll grow so take a chance
With a couple of kooks
Hung up on romancing

We bought a lot of things
to keep you warm and dry
And a funny old crib on which the paint won't dry
I bought you a pair of shoes
A trumpet you can blow
And a book of rules
On what to say to people
when they pick on you
'Cause if you stay with us you're gonna be pretty kookie too

[CHORUS]

And if you ever have to go to school
Remember how they messed up
this old fool
Don't pick fights with the bullies
or the cads
'Cause I'm not much cop at punching other people's dads
And if the homework brings you down
Then we'll throw it on the fire
And take the car downtown

[CHORUS]

And here's one more for my sisters: