THE KIDS HAVE GONE EXPLORING...

At least I know they will all be back in awhile, no doubt with tales to tell mom and dad about their own adventures in the beach. Our son and his wife will have been married for ten years this coming August and our baby girl will turn thirty-four years old in April. Could someone please explain to me exactly where the time has gone? I tried hard to describe how it feels for a parent to watch their children grow up so fast when I wrote this song for Scott and Shannon's wedding in the summer of 2000;

TIME TO FLY AWAY

Was it so long ago that I read stories to you
In my soft-backed chair?
And was it yesterday, I watched you play "tag"
On a summers eve?
You've grown so, I don't know...
I can't imagine where
The years have gone,
The years have gone.

A baby girl, with your big brown eyes,
Your daddy loves you so.
Across the miles, momma calls to you,
"Baby, come back home!"
"Can't now mom, I'm grown now-
And I've found a love,
Forever of my own".

Spread your wings, it's time to fly away,
We bless your lives on this-
Your wedding day.
In our hearts you're always here,
Through the good times and the tears
Two one time "kids",
Now a family of their own!

Mmmm... a rockin chair on the big front porch
A glass of lemonade,
Grandma and I cast our memories back
Into the evening shade -
It's gone so fast, I don't know,
Someday you'll wonder where
The years have gone,
The years have gone.

Perhaps as I am writing this, Shannon's mom who lives completely on the other side of this great country, is wondering how her little girl with the big brown eyes is getting along. If I could, I would tell her she is just fine; slowly cruising down the sugar-sand waterfront on this fine spring day, giggling and laughing with my son and daughter - creating wonderful memories for the days when they too will all be "old".