The Beautiful Ones

My kids took turns reading Dr. Suess to their former nanny's kid

We had the pleasure of hosting our former nanny and her kids this weekend.

It's so great to see my (mostly) grown up kids with her little kids, and for me to get to spend time with her now that we're both mamas instead of a mama and a college student.

Madison showed off for us, and we got to enjoy a beautiful day with the morning and early afternoon spent at the Farmer's Market.

Evening brought story time for the little kids and then games for the big kids and grown ups.

Acro with a three-year old makes me smile!

And now, with our friends back in Chicago and my kids back at their Dad's, I'm getting to enjoy a little quality time at home with some New Yorker magazines.

That's where the inspiration for today's song comes from -- a personal history from a guy Prince hired to write his autobiography.

Unfortunately, Prince died before he could get very many of his stories on paper.

Please, oh please, don't let that happen to me.

In the meantime, some entertainment from the brilliant and beautiful man himself:

High on diesel and gasoline
Psycho for drum machine
Shaking their bits to the hits, oh oh

The beautiful ones with our beautiful Capitol

Drag acts, drug acts, suicides
In your dad's suits you hide
Staining his name again

Cracked up, stacked up, 22
Psycho for sex and glue
Lost it to Bostik, yeah
Shaved heads, rave heads, on the pill
Got too much time to kill
Get into bands and gangs, oh

Here they come
The beautiful ones
The beautiful ones
La la la la
Here they come
The beautiful ones
The beautiful ones
La la la la la

La la, loved up, doved up, hung around
Stoned in a lonely town
Shaking their meat to the beat
High on diesel and gasoline
Psycho for drum machine
Shaking their bits to the hits, oh

Here they come
The beautiful ones
The beautiful ones
La la la la
Here they come
The beautiful ones
The beautiful ones

You don't think about it
You don't do without it
Because you're beautiful
And if your baby's going crazy
That's how you made me, la la
And if your baby's going crazy
That's how you made me, woh oh
And if your baby's going crazy
That's how you made me
La la la la la