Her father gave a beautiful eulogy. He opened up with "I was given a gift 50 years ago...her name was Paula." He is so right. Our friends, our family, our lives are such a gift.
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Sometimes it's the little things. CG got his first soccer medal. After watching patiently from the sidelines, he finally got his own medal. He wore it all afternoon, carefully hung it on his bedpost, woke up, put it back on and wore it all the next day.
I love this shot - he's still half asleep but he remembered to put his medal back on.
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G and MG attended their first ever father/daughter dance. It was a Monster Mash sponsored by the local Girl Scout Troop so picture a bunch of dads, and even bigger bunch of girls all in one gym. Miley playing, girls screeching and dancing (if you call jumping up & down and kicking it like Elaine, dancing).
Guest Lessons from G (my comments in italics).
- Wear earplugs.
- Always wear socks. MG did not wear socks with her shoes and all the jumping/dancing gave her blisters.
- My daughter doesn't care if I can't dance. I bet she will in about 3 years.
Check out what else I've learned and come share your lessons at Musings of a Housewife's What I learned this week.
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Our life is just a vapor. We never know when it's our time, or our loved ones. We get so busy w/ our lives that take for granted those moments we think we are guaranteed.
I love how CG is so proud of his medal!!!!!
And your hubby and MG look wonderful! What a great time for them together!
I'm so sorry about your friend's mother. It is so hard to lose someone, and sometimes harder to watch others go through it!
Love the medal. Max's last soccer game is this weekend and he said he doesn't want to do soccer anymore, so this may be it!
What a fun dance theme! I cracked up at the pic of G with the wig and the whistle in the upper left! Priceless!
So sorry for your friend, my heart goes out! But the soccer medal is COOL - way to go buddy!
I'm so sorry about your friend ... it is a reminder that life really does go by SO fast, so we need to grasp and cherish every moment.
Huge congrats to CG on the soccer medal - how very exciting!! And I am loving those pictures of the father/daughter dance. She looks beautiful!
It's always such an eye-opener when someone passes on, but what a good thing to remember to tell our loved ones NOW how much we love and adore them. Great reminder!
Yeah on the soccor medal, and great picture of G and MG.
Such a sweet list of lessons learned.
i'm totally gonna be like CG if they give away medals at my half marathon!! :P
i love that places are starting to do father/daughter dances and encourage fathers to show young girls how they should be treated by men. that's awesome that G and MG got to have that special time together!
This is so true... it's hard to let go after losing someone when you feel that there were things left unsaid between you. It's an important reminder to all of us.
As for the dance... ack! Flash forward just a few years and she WILL care if Dad can't dance. But she will ALSO treasure that he is around to dance with her.
You learned such great things :)
So cute about the medal, big congrats to him!
Even cuter is your daughter + husband.
I love the photos!
I'm so sorry to hear about your friend's loss. My prayers go out to her and her family. It is truly a sad time when you lose your loved ones. =(
Great photos of your hubby and daughter. I'm sure they had a wonderful time at the dance. Your daughter's outfit is adorable and definitely suits a pretty princess like her.
great pictures and I believe when we see someone else hurt over loss it makes us realize how much we do love the ones we have and miss as well
Life is a gift for sure. Each day is a gift. I love CG's medal. Yeah CG!
What a fun daddy daughter dance. Cute pictures.
They are an adorable couple. Nice shots.
A lot of life's lessons we don't figure out until it's too late. I wonder why that is.
And a father daughter dance? Those are the best. Espcecially with Miley music.
Life is amazing isn't it - such heartache and joy back-to-back in the same week. I am glad there was still beauty in your week - even though it was rough. As for school dances - hard to imagine - currently my little guys just like to shake it as part of their bedtime routine. I get cold sweats at the thought of them all grown up at a real dance!
Sorry about your friends' loss...and how true that we need to find time to say all of those things in our every day life. The school dance photos are great - our new school does that, too, and I can't wait until K is going to school there. It will be so adorable! Love the picture with the medal...N was so proud when he finally got his soccer ribbon. I think the little brothers appreciate things like that even more after watching bigger siblings earn them first.
What wonderful lessons! I remember my younger daughter being so proud of her first medal. Her older sister had been getting them for a couple of years and she was so thrilled to finally have one of her own. Your daughter looks so lovely all dressed up!
Sorry to hear about your friend's mom. We lost a member of our church this week to cancer (at 30 years old). It really does remind you how precious, sweet, and short life can be!
So sorry to hear of your friend's loss. It seems very apparent she was very much loved by her family, but like you said its so hard to remember to "live in the moment" and really express that love before its too late. Love the father/daughter dance pictures, what a wonderful event. Cherish those moments like no other, you know my heart aches for the day my kids will have their daddy back here to play and spend time with them.
Adorable pictures. I love that they still have Daddy/Daughter dances. What a wonderful idea.
I remember my little guy carrying his soccer medal around for weeks - I love it!
Tried commenting on this from my iphone but it was misbehaving!
Sorry for the loss to your friend, but a valuable lesson for us all.
Love the daddy/daughter photos.
You're so right about telling people how you feel about them. Makes me think about tying that in somehow at Christmas time. Would be a more meaningful gift than a store-bought present.
What a beautiful reminder to tell our family how much we care. And those photos of your daughter and husband are so sweet! What a fun time.
I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your friend's Mom. You know what I am going thru right now with my own Mom. And I find myself more and more telling her what she means to me. But then I wonder if I waited too long to tell her. Was I a rotten teenager? Was I an ungrateful child? Then I realize it does not matter. I want love and peace to be the only emotions my Mom knows when the time comes. So I may have been shy to express my emotions before, I've been given a gift - time to tell her just how much I love her before her death.
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