My heart....

I was driving yesterday on my way to a Thirty-One party, and this song came on. I had borrowed Pumpkin's CD and I needed to hear this song at this moment, but I did not know it. I had to put up the lyrics because it explained how I was feeling....

Never Grow Up

Taylor Swift

Your little hand's wrapped around my finger

and It's so quiet in the world tonight

Your little eyelids flutter cause you're dreaming

so i tuck you in, turn on your favorite night light

to you everything's funny

you got nothing to regret

i'd give all i have, honey

if you could stay like that

(Chorus)

Oh darling, don't you ever grow up

Don't you ever grow up

Just stay this little

Oh darling, don't you ever grow up

Don't you ever grow up

It could stay this simple

I won't let nobody hurt you

Won't let no one break your heart

and no one will desert you

Just try to never grow up

Never grow up

You're in the car on the way to the movies

and you're mortified your mom's dropping you off

at 14, there's just so much you can't do

and you can't wait to move out someday and call your own shots

but don't make her drop you off around the block

remember that she's getting older too

and don't lost eh way that you dance around in your pj's getting ready for school

(Chorus again)

Take pictures in your mind of your childhood room

memorize what it sounded like when your dad gets home

remember the footsteps, remember the words said

and all your little brother's favorite songs

i just realized everything i have is someday gonna be gone

So here i am in my new apartment

in a big city, they just dropped me off

it's so much colder than i thought it would be

so i tuck myself in and turn my night light on

Wish i'd never grown up

I wish i'd never grown up

Oh i don't wanna grow up

Wish i'd never grown up

I could still be little

oh, i don't wanna grow up

wish i'd never grown up

it could be simple

oh, darling, don't' you ever grow up

don't you ever grow up

just stay this little

oh darling, don't you ever grow up

don't you ever grow up

it could stay this simple

won't let nobody hurt you

won't let no one break your heart

and even though you want to

please try to never grow up

This song just touched my heart. I think as adults we sometimes realize how nice it was to be little and have someone take care of us and take the worries away. I look at our kids and see them wanting to grow up. Whereas i want them to just enjoy these fleeting days of childhood. Before they know it, they will be grown up....and before I know it, they will be grown up.....