Mamma Mia!

Tonight was a great night! Beth, Lindy and I went to "Mamma Mia". I've always wanted to see this musical, and Beth surprised me with tickets - as an early birthday present - since she prob won't be here on my bday :-( .

We had a great dinner at El Torito and really enjoyed the show! Always fun (and necessary) to have a girl's outing. Thanks for the great gift, Beth!!

I love all the music of ABBA, but I also was particularly touched by the song "Slipping Through My Fingers", which I'd never heard before. It was very sentimental and made me think of my three sweet girls. Reading it doesn't do it justice...you should download it! But here are the lyrics:

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 loosing 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 awakeI let precious time go by

Then when she's gone

There's that odd melancholy feeling

And a sense of guiltI can't deny

What happened to the wonderful adventures

The places I had planned for us to go

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.