Slipping Through My Fingers.

I love my little girl so very much. Whenever I see a loving mother-daughter relationship in a movie or anything of the like I bawl my guts out. I just don't know what I'll do without her when she grows up. I cherish almost every moment we're together. I'd almost be content if she were my only child ever. (Okay so maybe I want a son... but still.) She has the sweetest personality I've ever encountered. That doesn't mean she isn't a sassy little diva, but she sure can love.

So when I saw Mama Mia (again. I saw it in an actual theatre years ago) the movie, there is this awesome Abba song that sums up the love a mother has for her sweet baby and how life brings fun adventures with some disappointment. Here are the Lyrics:

Slipping Through My Fingers Lyrics
Artist(Band):Abba

Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile
I watch her go with a surge of that well-known sadness
And I have to sit down for a while
The feeling that I'm losing her forever
And without really entering her world
I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter
That funny little girl

Slipping through my fingers all the time
I try to capture every minute
The feeling in it
Slipping through my fingers all the time
Do I really see what's in her mind
Each time I think I'm close to knowing
She keeps on growing
Slipping through my fingers all the time

Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table
Barely awake, I let precious time go by
Then when she's gone there's that odd melancholy feeling
And a sense of guilt I can't deny
What happened to the wonderful adventures
The places I had planned for us to go
(Slipping through my fingers all the time)
Well, some of that we did but most we didn't
And why I just don't know

Slipping through my fingers all the time
I try to capture every minute
The feeling in it
Slipping through my fingers all the time
Do I really see what's in her mind
Each time I think I'm close to knowing
She keeps on growing
Slipping through my fingers all the time

Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture
And save it from the funny tricks of time
Slipping through my fingers

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Schoolbag in hand she leaves home in the early morning
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

Song is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se_LRtq36YA



I want to look at my little girl with as much love and wonder as I had from the beginning, even at the breakfast table when I'm cranky and sleepy. :-)