~Passionately Impulsive~

Steven brought the truck home and we, my husband and I, took him and Ty back over to TyAnne’s house. We got to see where they lived. The house is cute on the outside, but the inside and the yard has a long way to go before I would live in it.

Growing up was not always easy for me, and I cannot remember a lot about my childhood like my friends, and my husband can. I can remember feeling sad, mad, and rage a lot, and I can remember all the negative things my mom would say to me or about me. I have a few good memories of my dad and me fishing or hunting or working on cars. Most of my memories come from stories I have heard being told about me from other members of the family over and over again. However I love music and always have ever since I was old enough to walk I have been listening to and dancing to music. I grew up on music, many people in my family play instruments and sing. I recently have decided to find the old songs of music that I grew up listening to and something amazing happen to me. As I sat there listening to old songs, and even 30 years later I still know all the words to all them good ole songs I was raised on. But as I sat there singing these songs I had the most amazing thing happen to me, I started to have all these different memories. Memories that where mine, and not stories I heard. They were real and they were mine. Some were bad but most were good. I was remembering things that I had long forgot, like the first time I ever danced with my dad. That was a big tear jerker of a memory for me because I was and always will be a “Daddy’s Girl”. So once this miracle happened to me I began to research my theory of music triggering lost memories. I found many studies showing that matching our intuitions about music; researchers have found that music is an important influence on our memories. We associate songs with emotions, people, and places we've experienced in the past. So now every time I hear and old song from my past it usually triggers my lost memories that I now get to share with my friends and family. It is a very exciting journey for me where I get to relive some precious forgotten memories of my childhood.