Music At Our House

My parents didn't listen to much music when I was growing up.  Yet, I can remember my little record player.  I had LOTS of 45 records with one song on each side. 



I don't think my mother even had a record until I brought back a Julia Iglesia album when I returned from my LDS mission in Ecuador.  Mom loved it!  --she thought Julio was so sexy and romantic even though the songs were in Spanish...and she didn't know a word of Spanish.
My mom didn't like movie musicals.  She said that whenever they were getting ready to kiss, they would sing a song.  :)   She took me to see "Sound of Music" when it first came out when I was 17.  I loved it, but my mom didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I did.
When I was home from college one summer my mom paid for 2 tickets to see the play musical "Annie" that was playing in Seattle.  She gave one of the tickets to my friend, Juanita Fairbanks. to go with me because mom didn't want to see a musical.  I remember being disappointed that my mom didn't go with me.
Mom did like the movie "Elvira Madigan" and the theme music.  It was the same with "Dr. Zhivago."  Later in life she saw "Phantom of the Opera" and liked the music so much, she bought the tape. 

Bread and Butter

If something (some object) came between my mom and me as we were walking, my mom taught me to say, "Bread and Butter."  Even though I thought that was fun, I never understood until today why.  This phrase means:  Nothing can come between us alluding to the fact that it is impossible to separate butter and bread once the butter is applied to the bread.