Country Music Monday - It Won't Be Like This For Long

I'm so excited about the Brad Paisley concert coming up that I can hardly wait. I'm also super excited to see Darius Rucker too.

I know there are folks out there that aren't country music fans and all I can say is, What's wrong with you!?"

Seriously though, I love country music for the lyrics. I love the way music can take you back to a specific place in time and you feel like you're right back in that moment. I have so many songs that do this.

Take, for example, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's, "It's your love," this is the first song that the husband and I ever danced to. We were in 9th grade and he had a crush on me, I had a crush on another boy, and we both went to the formal solo. I will always remember it was the last song that played that night and Eric asked me to dance. It was also the only song we danced to.

Anyway, there are already songs that I know will take me back to special moments with my baby girl. One that always makes me cry is, Darius Rucker's, "It won't be like this for long."

Watch the video.


But here are the lyrics if you don't.

He didn't have to wake up
He'd been up all night
Layin’ there in bed listenin’
To his new born baby cry

He makes a pot of coffee
He splashes water on his face
His wife gives him a kiss and says
It gonna be OK

It won’t be like this for long

One day we'll look back laughin’
At the week we brought her home

This phase is gonna fly by

So baby just hold on
‘Cause it won't be like this for long

Four years later ‘bout 4:30
She's crawling in their bed
And when he drops her off at preschool
She's clinging to his leg
The teacher peels her off of him
He says what can I do
She says now don't you worry
This’ll only last a week or two

It won’t be like this for long
One day soon you'll drop her off
And she won’t even know you're gone
This phase is gonna fly by
If you can just hold on
It won’t be like this for long

Some day soon she'll be a teenager
And at times he'll think she hates him
Then he'll walk her down the aisle
And he'll raise her veil
But right now she's up and cryin’
And the truth is that he don't mind
As he kisses her good night
And she says her prayers

He lays down there beside her
‘Til her eyes are finally closed
And just watchin’ her it breaks his heart
Cause he already knows

It won’t be like this for long
One day soon that little girl is gonna be
All grown up and gone
Yeah, this phase is gonna fly by
So, he's tryin’ to hold on

‘Cause it won’t be like this for long

It won’t be like this for long

It won’t be like this for long

I'm crying now. What songs do you like?

29 Things That Make Me Smile

Why 29? Well, I turned 29 last Tuesday, the 5th. Yep, the last year of my twenties. I officially feel old. Not as old as I'll probably feel in 355 days though!

So, here are some things that bring a smile to my face (in no particular order and don't think I'm going to get really deep on this):

1. napkins
Yeah, napkins, especially when you realize you're out of toilet paper!

2. Sharpies
They are my favorite thing to write with. I would be happy having a stocking full of them for Christmas or just a sock full of them any other day.

3. Brad Paisley tickets!!!
Yeah, my husband gets major points for this year's birthday present.

4. Sweets
Any form of sweets really, but you know I'm somewhat partial to donuts.

5. Cameras
I love my dslr my sister gave me for Christmas, but I also love my little point & shoot because it fits in my purse easily for any moment I may want to capture. For example:

This was from the ice storm in 2007.

Random sighting in Tulsa

6. haircuts


7. Pandora

8. Sweet P
I am madly, deeply, uncontrollably in love with my daughter.

9. baby stretches

10. baby smiles

11: Diapers.
Bless the person who invented disposable diapers. Bless them.

12. Mexican food
Mmmm, chips, salsa and queso. Yum.

13. Coffee
My favorite? Topeca. Second fave: Rocket Brothers. Both are local - which I LOVE.

Which brings me to 14: Drive-Thrus
Rocket Brothers is a drive-thru coffee shop. I love iced vanilla lattes from RB - PLUS you don't even have to ask for whipped cream, they automatically put it on for you. MMM.

Now, as a mom with a little one in a car seat I have a new found appreciation for drive-thrus! Who really wants to carry the car seat in with them to starbucks?

And who wants to unbuckle and wake a sleeping baby just so they can run in to the coffee house for their latte addiction?

15. note pads
I really can't have too many. You can usually find recipe notes on them, things I need to remember but I will probably forget since I can't find the note pad I wrote it on, and lots of little doodles.
I kind of want these!

16. The Husband.
He's pretty much awesome. He's my best friend. He's the daddy to our little girl. He surprises me with Brad Paisley tickets out of nowhere! He is one mean grilling machine. He makes me laugh. He's pretty hot, if I do say so myself. He has some mean dance skills. He's a great fishing partner and gardener.

17. The Animals
My little Duncan cracks me up all the time and Kota is just a goofy dog. She's a pit bull that thinks she's a min pin.

And then there's Pistol the Cat. He keeps the mice out of our house...and all the neighbors houses too.

18. Working from home
I'm so glad I have a job that is currently letting me work part-time from home. Anytime I want to look over at my girl I can. I do this a lot.

19. hoodie sweatshirts

20. Apple
The company, not the fruit...but I do like those too.


21. TOMS
They are super-comfortable and you are buying a pair for a kid in need every time you get a pair for yourself. Double win.

22. blogs that inspire
For random reasons in no order: under the sycamore, tasty kitchen, holycool.net, prudent baby, i do it yourself, joy's hope, young house love...

23. family
I am blessed to have my immediate family living so close. The husband and I have our parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles all living pretty much in the same city.

24. socks
As I mentioned before, I wear socks like they are house slippers or shoes. I don't care to wear shoes that much, but I don't like running around barefoot either. Socks make me smile, especially new socks with that super soft fuzzy inside.

25. jeans
And being able to fit back into them after having a baby. This is big stuff folks. Have you heard that song "Chicken Fried" by Zac Brown Band? If not, watch this. Anyway, the hubs and I were jamming out to it while I was hugely pregnant and he reminded me why that song didn't apply to me.

Here are the lyrics he was referring to:
"You know I like my chicken fried
Cold beer on a Friday night
A pair of jeans that fit just right
And the radio up"

He's a sweetie.

26. really good food
At a restaurant so I don't have to do the dishes after.




27. hot showers

28. quiet time

29. outdoors

Recipe for Bierocks

I grew up on bierocks and if you've never had them, you are missing out. Bierocks are just yeast rolls filled with sauteed hamburger and cabbage, baked and topped with a little butter and salt and pepper. I always loved it when my mom made these. They are pretty easy to make and you can freeze them for a quick lunch.

Just brown 1 lb. hamburger.


Sautee 1/2 a head of sliced cabbage.




Combine the hamburger and cabbage.


Make 1 package of Pillsbury Hot Roll mix.

Let the dough rest then pull small balls of dough off and roll out to fill.



Pull the edges up around the filling.


Flip over and put on a cookie sheet.


Bake at 375 degrees until golden brown.


Top with butter, salt and pepper and enjoy!

Sweet P - Birth to 10 Weeks

Eeek. She's growing too fast. Here's proof:

My Tasty Kitchen Recipe

I submitted my Blackened (cat) Fish Taco recipe to Tasty Kitchen! Here's the original post.


And this is the screen shot of it on the TK homepage!