Rewind

It is hard to believe this picture is a little over 18 years ago. It was posted on this very blog along with a lot of posts of a very wet behind the ears father rambling about this and that without really knowing what he was doing. It certainly wasn't very good writing about something that turned out to be one of two masterpieces I created.

One of my most vivid memories of that time was the drive home from the hospital after ten days spent mostly in the NICU due to a tough delivery that ended up with a sick baby and mother. As we made the 20 mile drive home, we had to stop several times to prop our daughter's head up to make sure she wasn't choking off her airflow as she slept in her car seat. Of course she wasn't but we were that new to parenting, she meant the world to us and we weren't prepared to take the chance. Funny how of all the stories of my life I've written on this blog, I've never written that one.

Now, seemingly weeks later, we are dropping her off in front of her dorm and I'm watching this young lady cross the street and head off into another chapter of her life where the center of her world is no longer in the same house where my center resides. It doesn't seem possible and yet it is happening. 

It is probably a good thing that life doesn't come with the standard cassette tape deck controls of my youth because right now, I would be hitting that rewind button for all that I'm worth.

Note: When this posts two days from now, I will be at a retreat of sorts with no connections to the outside world so I will be unable to approve your comments until my return, perhaps late Thursday or early Friday. Don't worry though, I will see that they are approved eventually.