A Bitter Sweet Hurt of a Father

                           

  Sometimes you  miss the things that are so obvious, like your children growing up, time with the loving wife,......MISSPELLING IN THE LAST POST!!! I am OK now, whew...lol! Funny how you have loving friends that love you in a way to not say anything. Gee, hope I am not in town one day with one of you and God forbid I have a booger on the edge of my nose....lol!!!

  Anyway, I thought that to be a good way of laughing the last post off ( though it was insightful) and to share with you pictures from a month ago when my daughter went on her first "car"   flatbed pick up truck, prom date. Oh my gosh, that does sound redneck and Jeff Foxworthy would have a "hoot." See, there I go again! I grilled the boy till I knew everything about him, and then released my little lady to go dancing for the evening.

                           

  My Baby has always had this little light in the bottom of her left eye. I can remember holding her for the first time and thinking how amazingly beautiful she was. She has a light in her that burns strongly against the fiercest of winds, and it's nothing that I have done to inspire such. I know that it from our Heavenly Father above, and each gift needs to be appreciated in the light of it. 

                        

  Her Momma is the Bomb when it comes to doing any hair. We came from the 80's big hair days, but my wife has transcended lovely and is a wonder with a pick and a can of hairspray! Now this look that is on my daughter's face, is the one of my little girl. When she looks up at her Daddy with those brown eyes....she melts my heart. I thought it was just a saying, but it happens. And It will happen two other times with my youngest daughter and son. She is more than I will ever be, and I am happy with that.

                        

  "The arm, not the waist!!!" That is the way that I like it says Poppa Bear....hee hee :)  It is going to be a given that her beauty will outshine those closest to her...."Alright that is close enough!"

                     

  Then off she went in a Flatbed Ford........................ :(

                        

Memories are not clear sometimes like the vision of her face, but the feeling comes rushing back as if it were yesterday.......... a bitter sweet hurt of a father.

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Wow. Her light was shining bright on that special night. She's radiant AND beautiful.
I love things that set people apart from the norm, like the light in her eye. Everyone who meets her in her entire life will remember that about her. I mean besides the wonderful lady she's grown into...
Thanks for sharing these pictures and your loving Daddy thoughts. She will reward your love for her many times over.
Dawn, the hair is GREAT!
(The Eagles are playing in my head right now...)