It's easy to smile.
So I'm sitting at the computer with getting ready to write down how I feel about my baby girl leaving tomorrow to spend 10 fun filled days in Europe. I had no idea what to write about this wonderful time in her life so I was just going to wing it. As my blank mind moved my hands to the keyboard the Triumph song Magic Power started playing. I mean really...You can't make this shit up.
My 17 year old daughter who through her own drive and initiative has gotten her self several paid singing gigs and almost all ask her back for more. My 17 year old daughter who sings when she's nervous, sad, happy or just breathing. :P My 17 year old daughter who is described perfectly in the first few lines of that song.
So she's not going to travel because I paid for the trip. She's not traveling as a result of the opportunity coming at the perfect time. This is not the result of her teacher making the trip happen despite the teachers contract dispute cancelling all extra curricular activities.
She's traveling because she must. This is just something that she will do no matter what is going on in her life. The need to see the world is in her bones. I don't think that any outside influence would have changed this part of her personality in any way.
She truly is "young wild and free" and she is most definable energized by "magic power of the music in her"
Now I'll run away and cry for a while.
My 17 year old daughter who through her own drive and initiative has gotten her self several paid singing gigs and almost all ask her back for more. My 17 year old daughter who sings when she's nervous, sad, happy or just breathing. :P My 17 year old daughter who is described perfectly in the first few lines of that song.
So she's not going to travel because I paid for the trip. She's not traveling as a result of the opportunity coming at the perfect time. This is not the result of her teacher making the trip happen despite the teachers contract dispute cancelling all extra curricular activities.
She's traveling because she must. This is just something that she will do no matter what is going on in her life. The need to see the world is in her bones. I don't think that any outside influence would have changed this part of her personality in any way.
She truly is "young wild and free" and she is most definable energized by "magic power of the music in her"
Now I'll run away and cry for a while.