We went to the beach house in the summer of 1989. On our first few trips to the beach my Uncle Joe and his family were our "beach house neighbors", on that particular trip my Uncle Roy and his family joined us as well.
Five-year-old Jeremy became an instant admirer of his Great-Uncle Roy, and so did two-year-old Ashleigh, because... whatever or whomever Jeremy admired, Ashleigh also admired, because she deeply loved and admired Jeremy. I'm pretty confident that both of these children captured their Great-Uncle Roy's heart as well.
It was during that trip that Uncle Roy sang a little song from his childhood to Ashleigh as we sat on the beach together. Little did we know at the time that it would become her "theme song" of sorts, and although it had been sung to children for decades before her birth, it was almost as if it had been written... just for her.
Uncle Roy is gone now, but I hope that somehow he knows how significant that little song was (and still is) to us, and how grateful I am that he sang it to her. It has a sweet little tune and these are words:
A is for apple
B for bear
C is for Ashleigh on a chair
All the world will never, never, know
the love I have for my Ashleigh-O
my Ashleigh-O
my Ashleigh-O
the love I have for my Ashleigh-O
From that day forward her nickname was Ashleigh-O. This blog is all about Ashleigh, how she came to be, and how she still is... and how the world will never, never know the love I still have for my Ashleigh-O.
