Suddenly (but for my son's birthday)

I tweaked the words to "Suddenly" from Les Misérables for my son's birthday today. If you're not familiar, here is Hugh Jackman singing the original lyrics from the 2012 film adaptation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dunmi9lvOc

Suddenly a year

I can still recall the start

When your parents anxious hearts beat as one

Just last year we were alone

And now we are a family

Something truly dear

Somehow for a year

It has been fun

Suddenly this house

Became quite baby safe

Somehow you could crawl, very fast

How was I to know what kind of love could be inside me?

Now a year has gone

Now we journey on through your life

How was I to know how fast that you would grow, has been a blast

Trusting me to catch you

I’m afraid of falling too

Just a child, who does not know the dangers/how pandemics grow

There are masks on every where

A carefree world, we cannot share

Never quite alone

Always in my heart

You have changed my life, little son

You have brought the gift of joy

And love so long desired

Suddenly, it’s me

Who is called mommy

Somehow, suddenly

You are one!

I have developed a whole list of Broadway songs about parent love and I am slowly working my way through lyric re-writes :)