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KillerFord1977

KillerFord1977

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One of my hunting partners , my daughter, is off to University . Guess its fitting with all our hog hunting, she chose to be a Razorback …
My days wont be the same 😞

So proud and so upset all at the same time.
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Congrats!!!!

Bittersweet moments are our burden as fathers, it seems.

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Mine just got her driving Learner's Permit. It won't be long, I'm afraid, before my birdie leaves our nest.

I try to live my life with few regrets. As a result, I remember those few that I do. One such incident was when my daughter was still a newborn.

I would come home from work and take the night shift with her, so as to let my wife get some rest. Those hours between sundown and sunrise would stretch into infinity, where even here in the city, the sounds of civilization would be both fewer and more muted. It must have been a few weeks into it, as I was getting quite fatigued by the 3-hours-per-feed schedule that I'd set my alarm to, and I remember putting the bottle in her mouth, and asking God to please just let this end...to have her grow a little older and not need me to do this so many times a night.

As soon as I'd thought those words, I instantly took them back. I instantly realized that my time with her would be very limited, and that each moment, no matter how difficult they may seem, should be counted as a blessing.

I wish your daughter the very best on this new and most exciting stage of her life, @KillerFord1977 (y)
 
Thanks… my son gets his learners permit tomorrow .. its all just a blur 😳🤯🤯🤯🤯🙏🙏🙏

seems like yesterday I was watching them learn to walk

your fathers duty, as all of us have done, is a lesson of love, laughter and wanting to ring their neck all at the same time

TSiWRX said:
Bittersweet moments are our burden as fathers, it seems.

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Mine just got her driving Learner's Permit. It won't be long, I'm afraid, before my birdie leaves our nest.

I try to live my life with few regrets. As a result, I remember those few that I do. One such incident was when my daughter was still a newborn.

I would come home from work and take the night shift with her, so as to let my wife get some rest. Those hours between sundown and sunrise would stretch into infinity, where even here in the city, the sounds of civilization would be both fewer and more muted. It must have been a few weeks into it, as I was getting quite fatigued by the 3-hours-per-feed schedule that I'd set my alarm to, and I remember putting the bottle in her mouth, and asking God to please just let this end...to have her grow a little older and not need me to do this so many times a night.

As soon as I'd thought those words, I instantly took them back. I instantly realized that my time with her would be very limited, and that each moment, no matter how difficult they may seem, should be counted as a blessing.

I wish your daughter the very best on this new and most exciting stage of her life, @KillerFord1977 (y)
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I told her, in my dad serious tone, that any future man she wants to be committed to better have huntable acreage. I mean good, serious huntable acreage. I’ll be damned if my then son-in-law is not taking his FIL and his new wife hunting damnit !!
He better have have good side x side also, cause I’ll be damned in 20 yrs 😉when she get married that I’m walking to the hunting spot !!!😂😂😂😂😂
 
When ever kids would get a little unruly, my grandpa used to say .... "When they are so very young they are so sweet, and cute, and lovable, but then they get older and they change, to the point that when they're about 8-10, you should pinch the little sucker's head's off" !!!!

Of course grandpa was kidding and being facetious. He loved all kids for his entire life.

(Miss ya' grandpa)
 
TSiWRX said:
Congrats!!!!

Bittersweet moments are our burden as fathers, it seems.

----

Mine just got her driving Learner's Permit. It won't be long, I'm afraid, before my birdie leaves our nest.

I try to live my life with few regrets. As a result, I remember those few that I do. One such incident was when my daughter was still a newborn.

I would come home from work and take the night shift with her, so as to let my wife get some rest. Those hours between sundown and sunrise would stretch into infinity, where even here in the city, the sounds of civilization would be both fewer and more muted. It must have been a few weeks into it, as I was getting quite fatigued by the 3-hours-per-feed schedule that I'd set my alarm to, and I remember putting the bottle in her mouth, and asking God to please just let this end...to have her grow a little older and not need me to do this so many times a night.

As soon as I'd thought those words, I instantly took them back. I instantly realized that my time with her would be very limited, and that each moment, no matter how difficult they may seem, should be counted as a blessing.

I wish your daughter the very best on this new and most exciting stage of her life, @KillerFord1977 (y)
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👆👆…Amen…👆👆

I don’t have any kids - that I know of - but my dad remarried when I was entering my teens, this time to a somewhat younger gal. The result was my younger sis and best friend, born my senior year in high school… we’d get up early Saturdays when she was a toddler and eat breakfast together (nobody else); then to the couch: cartoons for her & back to sleep for me! fast forward to her starting school, this time in a town they’d moved to when I was in college…
I was home from Army (I think) and would walk with her down the long drive to the road which was also kind of a highway til it entered town. She wasn’t sure about catching the bus. Anyway we developed a little routine doing that, rain or shine, but eventually she one day looked at me kinda sidewise and said “I think I can go down myself now…”
I immediately agreed of course, but it was one of those bittersweet little things that tells you a milestone has passed that you won’t see again… ah well. Still best friends!

( sorry for the ramble - topic just got me thinking… :). )
 
KillerFord1977 said:
One of my hunting partners , my daughter, is off to University . Guess its fitting with all our hog hunting, she chose to be a Razorback …
My days wont be the same 😞

So proud and so upset all at the same time.View attachment 19841View attachment 19842
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I know exactly how you feel killerford when my boy first toke off to college it was a sad day for us I am never going to he that loud feet noise down the hallway sad day but you got to be hella proud of them
 
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