Let me preface this blog by saying I had an absolutely amazing Father’s Day Weekend! Friday, I spoke with someone about some future possibilities (a future blog), Saturday I got the best unexpected surprise (which is another future blog), and Sunday, I spent time with my sons. Past Father’s Day’s we have gone to ball games, the zoo, Outdoor Adventures, etc… This Father’s Day was a bit more low key. We went to the movies together and saw this Pokemon Detective Pikachu movie (which despite knowing a thing about Pokemon, I thought was a good film). Afterward, we went to the Sloan Museum in town to see the Robot Zoo exhibit. We also spent a little time in Barnes and Noble (getting ideas for my youngest’s birthday and checking out what they had on vinyl.
While I sat there waiting for the movie to start, I was looking at my sons. They are out of school for the summer and they will be in 12th and 7th grades next year. It is almost unreal how fast time has flown by. Today’s tunes are fantastic songs that are great not only they tie in with Father’s Day, but they are a reminder to enjoy every moment – because time waits for no one!
It Won’t Be Like This For Long – Darius Rucker
This song was a hit, despite the bad reviews it received in industry magazines. I always liked it, probably because I could relate to how fast my kids were growing up.
He’d been up all night
Lying there in bed listening
To his newborn baby cry
He makes a pot of coffee
He splashes water on his face
His wife gives him a kiss and says
It’s gonna be OK
One day we’ll look back laughing
At the week we brought her home
This phase is gonna fly by
So baby just hold on
It won’t be like this for long
Four years later ’bout four thirty
She’s crawling in their bed
And when he drops her off at pre-school
She’s clinging to his leg
The teacher peels her off of him
He says, “What can I do?”
She says, “Now don’t you worry
This will only last a week or two”
It won’t be like this for long
One day soon you’ll drop her off
And she won’t even know you’re gone
This phase is gonna fly by
If you can just hold on
It won’t be like this for long
Someday soon she’ll be a teenager
And at times he’ll think she hates him
Then he’ll walk her down the aisle
And raise her veil
And the truth is that he don’t mind
As he kisses her goodnight
And she says her prayers
He lays down there beside her
‘Til her eyes are finally closed
And just watching her it breaks his heart
‘Cause he already knows
One day soon that little girl is gonna be
All grown up and gone
Yeah this phase is gonna fly by
So he’s trying to hold on
‘Cause it won’t be like this for long
It won’t be like this for long
Then They Do – Trace Adkins
This is the same kind of song as the one above. What I love about this one is the “Twilight Zone”-ish ending to it. What I mean by that is that as parents, sometimes we just wish our kids will grow up – and then they do. You get what you wish for, but sometimes it takes getting the wish before you realize it is not what you wan. It’s a reminder that sometimes all those little things that maybe drove us batty, are the things we really love about our kids. Time moves forward – and moments come and go.
This can also be said of loved ones who are no longer here. The stories that my grandma and my mother told over and over – at the time I remember thinking “this story again?!” Now, I’d give anything to hear them tell those stories again. Treasure each and every moment with your kids! Enjoy even the things that drive you crazy – because soon, they grow up and you’ll want those moments back.
Trying to get the kids to school:
One’s hanging on my shirt-tail,
Another’s locked up in her room.
And I’m yelling up the stairs:
“Stop worrying ’bout your hair, you look fine.
And I’m playing referee.
Now someone’s gotta go,
The moment that we leave.
And everybody’s late,
I swear that I can’t wait till they grow up.
Then they do, and that’s how it is.
It’s just quiet in the mornin’,
Can’t believe how much you miss,
All they do and all they did.
You want all the dreams they dreamed of to come true:
Then they do.
Now the youngest is starting college,
She’ll be leavin’ in the Fall.
And Brianna’s latest boyfriend,
Called to ask if we could talk.
And I got the impression,
That he’s about to pop the question any day.
I look over at their pictures,
Sittin’ in their frames.
I see them as babies:
I guess that’ll never change.
You pray all their lives,
That someday they will find happiness.
Then they do, and that’s how it is.
It’s just quiet in the mornin’,
Can’t believe how much you miss,
All they do and all they did.
You want all the dreams they dreamed of to come true:
Then they do.
No more Monday PTA’s,
No carpools, or soccer games.
Your work is done.
Now you’ve got time that’s all your own.
You’ve been waitin’ for so long,
For those days to come.
Then they do, and that’s how it is.
It’s just quiet in the mornin’,
Can’t believe how much you miss,
All they do and all they did.
You want all the dreams they dreamed of to come true:
Then they do.
Ah, then they do.
Various Ramblings of a Nostalgic Italian 
So true. Daughter is almost 21 and still want her to be 6 again. My dad died just over a year ago and I remember him telling stories about his dad who died just after I was born, wish I could have met him.
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They say that you never really get how fast time goes until you have children – so much truth to that! I’m sorry to read about your dad. My mom has been gone 13 years, and it still hurts. Thanks for reading and for commenting.
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