"the primary colors are one, two three..."

Today was the Primary program at my ward, which is usually one of my favorite sacrament meetings.  I love watching all the kids up there singing the choruses (and mumbling through the verses while the kids 10+ sing the actual words) to every song and having them recite their little segments into the microphone.  Today though was a little bit different for my ward as far as Primary programs go though because while we do have a Primary presidency, we no longer have any children in primary.  So instead of kids to entertain us we had the presidency speak (which don't get me wrong was not bad, just a very different kind of Primary program).  One of the things they talked about was, obviously, the importance of Primary.  I had never really thought about Primary as something that had that huge of an impact in my life, but then I started to think about all the Primary songs, and how much I still could sing all of them, and how often I sang them when I was younger at times when they helped me make decisions or something.  I do believe that Primary songs do serve a very real and special purpose in a child's life that can help them not just in childhood but later on as well, as it did with me.