Day One — My Favorite Song:

Hmm … well, that’s a no-​​brainer. My favorite song of all times hap­pens to refer to my blog name. Rather than spilling out the his­tory of why I chose “Apron Strings” for the name of my blog, check out this post. Oh, and maybe this post.

“Apron Strings” by Every­thing But The Girl is a song that I first heard back in the mid-80’s on a John Hughes movie sound­track. I don’t know why I zeroed in on that song (because the entire sound­track is all sorts of John-​​Hughes awe­some!!), but I just loved Tracey Thorn’s voice. It’s because of this par­tic­u­lar song that I got into lis­ten­ing to all EBTG songs.

Dur­ing my senior year in high school, my future SIL and I had spent the night at her brother’s dorm room at the Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan. Future Hubby was my home­com­ing date dur­ing my Junior Year; and although we had our dif­fer­ences after that one-​​and-​​only for­mal date, we had still remained good friends. That night, after trolling around Ann Arbor and hit­ting up a cou­ple of col­lege par­ties, I lit­er­ally hit the sack (well, my sleep­ing bag, any­way) and was ready to turn in for the night.

Except, well … in the back­ground, I could hear Tracey Thorn’s voice singing my favorite song. And I knew it was Future Hubby that set the song to play.

I’m not sure what it was, but it cer­tainly stirred some emo­tions in me. Because that’s the moment I first started to fall in love with Future Hubby.

We didn’t start dat­ing until a few months after I grad­u­ated from High School. But to this day, “Apron Strings” has always meant more to me than just that “long­ing for a child” … It reminds me of the day my heart started to bloom.

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And now, here’s a live ver­sion of “Apron Strings” off of their “Acoustic” album.
Hope you enjoy this song as much as I do …

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What is with this 30-​​day song chal­lenge?