Meaningful Monday: Don't Blink

One thing being a correspondent for our area newspaper, the Times News, gives me (beyond just the chance to write), is also the chance to have a moment of time to myself when gathering for a story. Last week I was on the way home from an event I covered and heard the song "Don't Blink" by Kenny Chesney on the radio. Usually the radio is OFF when I'm driving cuz I don't want the extra noise, but in that moment I had the chance to actually hear the music and absorb the lyrics.


This isn't a new song or my favorite artist or anything like that, but I thought the lyrics were, well, meaningful...

I turned on the evening news

Saw a old man being interviewed

Turning a hundred and two today

Asked him what's the secret to life

He looked up from his old pipe

Laughed and said "All I can say is."

Don't Blink

Just like that you're six years old

and you take a nap and you

Wake up and you're twenty-five and

your high school sweetheart becomes your wife

Don't Blink

You just might miss

your babies growing like mine did

Turning into moms and dads

next thing you know your "better half"

Of fifty years is there in bed

And you're praying God takes you instead

Trust me friend

a hundred years goes faster than you think

So don't blink

I was glued to my tv

when it looked like he looked at me and said

"Best start putting first things first."

Cause when your hourglass runs out of sand

You can't flip it over and start again

Take every breath God gives you

for what it's worth

Don't Blink

Just like that you're six years old

and you take a nap and you

Wake up and you're twenty-five and

your high school sweetheart becomes your wife

Don't Blink

You just might miss

your babies growing like mine did

Turning into moms and dads

next thing you know your "better half"

Of fifty years is there in bed

And you're praying God takes you instead

Trust me friend

a hundred years goes faster than you think

So don't blink

So I've been tryin' ta slow it down

I've been tryin' ta take it in

In this here today,

gone tomorrow

world we're livin' in

So am I "blinking" too much as a Mom? Is there any possible way when they are grown that I won't feel like the answer is yes? I just hope I'm doing the same... taking it in. Hope you are too, whatever "it" is! :)  If you haven't heard these lyrics in awhile, hope you'll watch the video- hearing it is, of course, lots better than just reading!

P.S. These pics are from a warm day we had last week that Cooper called "The Hottest Day Ever!"