( A Somewhat Silly but) Sentimental Goodbye

When Evelyn was a newborn, she was a pretty fussy little one, for many reasons. The Twila Paris lullaby CD was one of the few things that would actually calm her down. Thus began our time of having this CD as the only thing ever playing on her CD player.

There were days when it was on 24/7, even as she got older. When we would leave the house, Doug or I would usually ask the other, "Is Twila off?". It became such a normal thing in our house that Evelyn started to call the CD player "Twila", too. The player and the music were synonymous in her eyes. For almost 3 years.

When Matthew was on his way 2 years ago and Evelyn moved rooms, there was no doubt in her mind that "Twila" was moving with her. We knew we wanted the actual Twila Paris CD for Matthew, so we slowly started weaning her off night time music. We bought a new CD player for Matthew's room and he, too, enjoyed that lullaby CD for over a year.

For the past 2 years Evelyn has listened to different types music on her "Twila" during nap/quiet time. About 6 months ago the player started to show signs of wearing out. The lid wouldn't stay shut, the CD wouldn't play sometimes, etc. We knew its time was drawing close to an end.

We had a small power outage last week and when it came back on, "Twila" wouldn't work at all. We told Evelyn we would try to fix it but knew she was most likely a goner.

Yesterday I had to tell her that indeed we couldn't fix "Twila" (even tho her daddy tried really hard to make her work again!). Bless her heart, she started to cry. Of course, I did, too. We will get her a new player, I told her. "But it won't be Twila, momma!" Oh, honey...

A chapter coming to an end for us. For her.

Kind of a silly chapter, but a big one for my sweet girl.

Thanks for the memories, Twila!!