Dale Smith
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My little girl Chelsea turns 27 today......how did that happen? Stop the world and let me off.... because that can't be possible. I could not have asked for a more incredible daughter. She taught me more about unconditional love than I could ever teach her. She showed me what love was about and how to place someone else above my own well being. When I held her in my arms for the very first time? I wept tears and all my feelings of not being worthy of being loved disappeared in the blink of an eye. I looked down at that little face and realized that she was the most important thing that ever happened to me...from that point on I knew that looking out for her was all that mattered. My bestest friend Jim was there the whole time with me....he saw my transformation...Love ya, Jimbo......you rock.
I did the majority of the 2 AM feedings when she was teeny tiny....and did so with great joy. I had this Michael McDonald tape with this song on it and would play it while I held her.....her tiny little hand would wrap around my pinky finger and the tears would flow. This song is for her.....imagine me holding her and knowing what I just shared then you will know what I was feeling. Chelsea? You "showed me"........
Michael Mcdonald - You Show Me
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Yep; they leave home far too soon.
My youngest is 23, married and heading off to Melbourne to do a Degree after doing a diploma. She's taking the youngest grand-daughter with her and her hubby of course. Sigh; two hour flight.
Greg
Greg
I remember watching my daughter leaving for Texas Tech with all her belongings packed in her little car and wanting to run down the road screaming "WAIT!!!! You can't leave!!!!! What the hell? Get back here!!!!" but knowing that she had left to make her own way. I watched her learn to walk, followed her around to make sure she didn't fall on something and had to be there to catch her.......you can only do that for so long. Man oh man am I ever missing that little/grown up girl.