Country Music Blog

Chuck hits it right on the head with these lyrics. I have a daughter that will turn 21 this month. She has a serious relationship with a young man she met at college. She keeps mentioning the “M” word. I’m not very comfortable with this and have told her so. She says it will be a long time down the road but she feels he is the one. My son of 14 (next month) keeps asking me if I like her boyfriend. I’ m not sure how I feel. He seems nice enough but is any young man going to be good enough for my little girl? I sure do love it when my daughter hugs me and looks up into my eyes and says “I love you, Daddy”. With her away at school it doesn’t happen near enough these days. But she is a young woman now even if I don’t want to accept it. I still can see her as we put her in the crib when we brought her home from the hospital. She looked soooo tiny in that big bed.

Last winter when she was coming home from school she went down the road we warned her not to in the snowy weather. The road was mostly clear but for a few drifts. She was going way too fast as usual. She topped a hill and hit a drift that pushed her into the other lane, where she caught the corner of an oncoming car. She called me on the phone at work. I couldn’t leave work fast enough. Unfortunately I was an hour away. I made it there as quickly as I could and was glad to find she had only a cut on her leg. That was very good news. The man in the other car was not hurt. I’m just not ready for things like this but yet I have to let her go. I need to give her roots as well as wings.

I still enjoy looking at those old pictures and remembering times with her then.

Thanks Chuck for making me know there are other dads out there feeling the same way. Just don’t expect me to listen to your song much. It’s just too darn sad. And I can’t let the other guys see me cry can I now?