Good morning to you,
We’re all in our places
With bright, shiny faces,
Good morning to you
Please tell me at least one of you has heard that classic children’s song before? My mom used to sing it to me and my sister when we were little and I was shocked when Ryan sang it to me one morning out of nowhere.
“You know that song!?”
We also both grew up singing the morning song that goes, “Wake up, wake up you sleepy head, get up, get up get out of bed.”
I guess it isn’t really a shocker that we have morning songs in this household since we have songs for rainy days. (I should sing the rainy day song today! It’s still raining like crazy in Ocala.) May our future children be blessed with the gift of a singing voice that actually sounds lovely so the future Fagans can sing without sounding like they’re dying.
Workout
The thunderstorms outside didn’t keep the people at our gym away. It was packed this morning!
I began my workout with 20 minutes on the elliptical before doing another LiveFit workout that targeted my back and biceps.
Since I’m not following the LiveFit program exactly (I’m not following the meal plan and am using the workouts simply as a guideline), I added some jump roping in the mix and my workout ended up looking like this:
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(For video demonstrations of the above exercises, click here.)
Breakfast
Once we were back home, it was time for food.
I made myself a batch of pumpkin protein pancakes.
Topped with syrup for some sweetness!
And now it’s time to play catch up after the long holiday weekend. Hope your weekend was full of fun!
Question of the Morning
- Do you remember any silly songs from your childhood? Any favorites?
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Ick walking to the gym in the rain is no fun! I am mentally gearing myself for the monsoons which are expected in 2 weeks and last all the way till September!
We always used to sing “it’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring. He went to bed, bumped his head, and didn’t get up until the morning.”
I sang it to my five year old the other day and he thought it was so funny and made me sing it 50 times.
i remember that one!
Aww those wake-up songs are so cute. My mom used to sing me a wake up song in Polish, but it was about getting up to feed horses. Haha
A few songs I remember very well are Fifty Nifty United States (which my friends and I will still burst out into from time to time haha!) and all those songs that would help you remember multiples of 3, 4 etc!
My grandmother is French so I grew up signing “Frère Jaques” and knew all the words. When I took HS French class i was semi-shocked no one else knew them lol!
i grew up singing that one, too! have you seen it in a commercial recently? i cannot remember what the commercial is for, but i immediately recognized the song!
Ah that wonderful children’s songs … we also have them – but I just don’t know how to translate it.
We sing a different Good morning song at my school with all the students then when I get into my classroom my students sing another one. They stay stuck in my head all day even when I get home LOL BTW have you tried the new Peanut Butter Cheerios?? They are spool good!!
I tried those Cheerios and loved them! I’m not even a PB fanatic like some of you all!
There’s a really pretty park by me that goes along the river. My absolute favorite time to go there is when it’s raining. The colors are brighter, it smells different, it almost feels like a whole different place in the rain.
Since I grew up in Montreal there were lots of french songs when I was little.
My parents never really sung any silly songs (that I remember at least!). The two songs they sung most were My Favorite Things and Somewhere Over the Rainbow – at bedtime!
Looks like an awesome workout! I need to start jump roping more. I used to listen to Raffi songs ALL THE TIME haha! He sang songs like “Baby Beluga” and “Down by the Bay”.
I remember Raffi! So many people have no idea who I’m talking about when I say his name, but I had pretty much all of his albums.
That workout looks really good. I’ll have to bookmark it! Some of the morning song comments are bringing back memories!
Those pancakes look delish! When I was little we sang the song, “Wake up sleepy head” 🙂
My mom just kind of made up songs! But one song from summer camp that I LOVED was “Rise and shine and give God your glory, glory!”
Those pancakes look delicious!
Every morning when we would wake up my Dad would sing “There she is, Ms. America…” when we came out of our room…
OMG my dad used to sing that to us EVERY morning and now I sing it to my dog, but I sing, “Good morning to Roo! Good morning to Roo!” because I am a super cheeseball like that. Love it! 🙂
Both of those are songs that my mom used to sing to get me out of bed when I was in high school!! And she definitely went through the whole red red robin part too haha. I remember dreading it then because I hated getting up so early, but it’s a fun memory to look back on now 🙂
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My Nana always used to sing “You are my sunshine, my only sunshine…”
Weird. We always sang it “Good morning to you, good morning to you. You look kind of drowsy, in fact, you look lousy. What happened to you?”
We always sang the Good Morning song you posted above but with a different ending….
Good morning to you,
Good morning to you,
We’re all in our places
With bright, shiny faces,
Oh what a good way
To start a new day!
When I was little my grandma bought me a “personalized” Good Morning tape! It was a tape full of good morning songs each with the name Julie thrown in 🙂
Hehe this one made me giggle because as a kid, my sister and I would always try to get my mum to STOP singing in the morning! It wasn’t any particular song – she’d just make up the words as she went which was kind of hilarious, but as a kiddie all I wanted was to go back to bed (well that, and Pop Tarts!)
My mom always sang that song to me when I was little too!! I didn’t know anyone else knew it!
I always used to sing this song and me and my friend still sing it in the mornings when we get to class!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4PDiR8dOm8
it’s not a morning song, but the ones you said remind me of “clean up, clean up, everybody everywhere, clean up, clean up, everybody do your share!” as if any song could make cleaning up more fun?!
I went to a summer camp in central florida (also went to camps in NC and Martha’s Vineyard) and they taught us all of these crazy good morning songs to wake us up. So funny! One was like, “I’m alive, awake, alert, enthusiastic” repeated 10 times or something outrageous.
Could definitely go for a stack of pumpkin pancakes, yum!
Lily
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk1MnrS3Mv0
This was a classic in our house
Oh your pumpkin protein pancake recipe is one of my faves! Looks delicious!
Don’t worry Julie, we have Wake Up songs, Clean Up songs, Laundry songs, Bath Time songs…the list goes on and on. Scott and I joke all the time that ANYTHING becomes a song in our household. He can actually sing…me, well, not so much. Sure does make chores go by faster thought! 😉
PS: Pumpkin Protein pancakes are the shiz!
*though not thought!
pancakes are the best way to refeul post workout in my opinion 🙂
My sister and I sometimes try to remember all of our old girl scout camp songs. How fun were those days!? 🙂
I know that song too!! Plus, my mom is Swiss, so I know a bunch of songs in German that she’d (and my grandma) would sing to us 🙂
Those pancakes look good!
My parents use to always put us on their shoulders and march around the whole house singing “skidamarink a dink a dink skidamarink a doo, we’re proud of you!” whenever we accomplished something. It is such a wonderful memory!
I remember that song! I used to know quite a few of them but I can’t remember! I’m sure they are tons of new ones these days that kids enjoy 🙂
My Grandma was British and she had two songs she used to sing to us… one was Cindy Pindy Puddin’ Pie, kissed the boys and made them cry…
And the other one was a creepy one that ended up in her chopping us up for firewood.
As we got older, we realized they were actually awful songs to sing to kids! But she was so sweet and sang them with love so it was ok…kinda..?
I had pumpkin coffee this morning – pumpkin is good ALL year ’round.
My dad signs that song every time we visit! The first time my husband heard it, my dad woke him from a dead sleep with his singing! It was hilarious to see my husband’s reaction!
And I just remembered “Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day. I’ve got this bright shiny feeling everything’s going my way”
My mom would sing the good morning song to me all the time when I was younger! We also sang Frere Jacques a lot as well.
Haha! No wake up songs for me, but I’m definitely guilty of prancing around to the “clean up” song every now and then.
Clean up, clean up, everybody do your share
Clean up, clean up, everybody everywhere.
My only wish is that it were a litttle more self-convicting 😉
i’ve never heard either of those songs but I like the morning song that Joey sang with his neighbor on one episode of friends.
as far as children songs, I have the following from my childhood.
Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold,
Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old;
Some like it hot, some like it cold,
Some like it in the pot, nine days old.
no idea what it meant….
I just started the Live Fit program yesterday! I can barely move my arms today I’m so sore! Have you tried her homemade pumpkin protein bar recipe?? I made them last night and they’re awesome! I made my own oat flour just using regular oats in a food processor, cheaper than buying it from the store!
Do you workout on an empty stomach? How does that work for you?
I sing “Good Morning” from “Singin in the Rain” to my kids, whilst my dad used to wake me up in high school by blasting “Proud Mary” by Ike and Tina through all of the speakers in the house.
Miss Mary Mack, Mack Mack, all dressed in Black, Black, Black with silver Buttons, Buttons, Buttons all down her Back, Back, Back ….
I could go on, but you get the point. 😉 That was the first one that came to mind!
I remember the clean up song from Barney. I think about it when it pick up my dog’s toys hoping he’ll get the hang of it (now that’s something I wish I could train him to do).
I’m getting ready to start that LiveFit program…so excited!
I love this post! I have a few songs from my childhood that I’ll randomly burst out. My favorite is one my aunt used to sing to me: “B-b-b-brigitt, beautiful brigitt, you’re the only one that I adore, when the m-moonshines over the mountain, I’ll be waiting at the k-kitchen door.” Apparently it’s a really old song and the original name is supposed to be “katie!”
Those pancakes look divine! I used to make up my own songs when I was young!
We had a Happy Birthday song that was given to me as a little kid that said your name in it. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I don’t really remember it too much but I feel like it was space themed or something….
OH MY GOSH. you know that song?!?! Literally… for years, my mom has sung that song, and I assumed it was one of her goofy made-up songs.
you just made my day.