Slipping through my fingers

Ok I know I'm a geeky, weepy girl right now . . . That's not in dispute. So today while I'm making greeting cards for the store I'm watching Mama Mia on my computer. There is a song in the movie called, "Slipping through my fingers" And as I was watching and listening to the words I started crying. So here are the words . . . I changed the "She's" to "He's". It seems very fitting . . .

Slipping Through My Fingers

Schoolbag in hand, he leaves home in the early morning

Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smileI watch him go with a surge of that well-known sadness

And I have to sit down for a while

The feeling that Im losing him forever

And without really entering his world

Im glad whenever I can share his laughter

That funny little boy

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 whats in his mind

Each time I think I'm close to knowing

He keeps on growing

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Sleep in our eyes, he and me at the breakfast table

Barely awake, I let precious time go by

Then when he's gone theres that odd melancholy feeling

And a sense of guilt I cant deny

What happened to the wonderful adventures

The places I had planned for us to go

(slipping through my fingers all the time)

Well, some of that we did but most we didnt

And why I just dont 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 whats in his mind

Each time I think Im close to knowing

He 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...Slipping through my fingers all the time

Schoolbag in hand he leaves home in the early morning

Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile...