10/26/06

Spud21 Gotta hold on easy as I let you go Gonna tell you how much I love you though you think you already know I remember I thought you looked like an angel wrapped in pink so soft and warm You’ve had me wrapped around your finger since the day you were born Spud5 You beautiful baby from the outside in Chase your dreams but always know the road that’ll lead you home again Go on take on this old world but to me you know you will always be My little girl Spud17 When you were in trouble that crooked little smile would melt my heart of stone Now look at you I’ve turned around and you’ve almost grown Sometimes your asleep I whisper I love you in the moonlight at your door As I walk away I hear you say “daddy love you more” Spud12 Spud9 Spud14 Spud1 You beautiful baby from the outside in Chase your dreams but always know the road that’ll lead you home again Go on take on this old world but to me you know you will always be My little girl Spud2 Spud15 Spud16 Spud8 Someday some boy will come and ask me for your hand But I won’t say yes to him unless I know He’s the half that makes you whole He has a poets soul And the heart of a mans man I know he’ll say that he’s in love, but between you and me He won’t be good enough Spud4 You beautiful baby from the outside in Chase your dreams but always know the road that’ll lead you home again Go on take on this old world but to me you know you will always be My little girl – Tim McGraw, My Little Girl

Happy 18th birthday, Spud!!!!!!!!
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Previously 2005: The spud is 17 today! 2004: I hope you dance. 2003: No entry. 2002: “You want to buy STUFF faster than we get rid of it!” he accused shrilly. 2001: Well, the little bastard is home again. 2000: No entry. 1999: Boring work-related shit.]]>

75 thoughts on “10/26/06”

  3. Happy Birthday, Spud.
    If it means anything, you look amazing, Robyn, for being the mother of an 18 year old.

  4. Happy Birthday Spud! I always think of you on your birthday because we share a birthday! Hope your day is a special one and that it’s a birthday to remember!

  5. Happy Birthday Spud, your no longer a little spud your a full grown potato. Just kidding with you 🙂 Your a beautiful charming young lady and you have the world ahead of you. Hoping your birthday is a fun filled one. Eat lots of cake…yum
    Mary in Michigan

  7. Happy birthday Spud!! 18. Wow. Your mom must feel old. Hehe
    Enjoy this time in your life!! I know I did. Keep a journal!! I always regret not doing that when I was younger so I don’t remember everything I enjoyed about it.
    Have a super great day and year and rest of your life! You’ve grown up to be a beautiful young lady!

  10. Happy Birthday Spud! I must have PMS or maybe I pulled a heart-string, as I sit here with tears dripping down my face after reading the words to that song. BEautiful- both your daughter, and the song.

  13. Happy Bithday, Spud! You are a lovely girl and indeed blessed to be loved so much. I love your new dress 🙂

  14. Happy 18th, you gorgeous Spud, you. Thanks for letting your mother let us watch you grow into the lovely young woman that you are!!!

  16. Happy Birthday Spud! Great idea with the pic/song alternating, Robyn and I love this song. Hope you have a great day!

  19. HOW DARE YOU GROW UP RIGHT BEFORE OUR VERY EYES,AND ALL WE DID WAS BLINK. HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRINCESS.

  24. Happy Birthday Spud! I hope you have a fantastic birthday (and that you are spoiled rotten). 🙂

  25. It’s a testimony to my emotional state that I cried my eyes out when I read this entry (it doesn’t help that I could hear the song in my head).
    Happy Birthday, Spud!

  26. I am so relieved I am not the only one who cried.
    Good to see that having an exhausting mother-daughter-relationship is not hereditary.

  27. Dammit, now I’m cryin’ at my desk.
    Happy Birthday Spud! We’ve enjoyed watching you grow up.

  28. Happy birthday Spud! Robyn I can’t believe you have an 18 year old. I can’t believe that I am old enough I could have one too! Love the pictures too.

  29. Happy Birthday Spud!!!!!!!!!! It has been extremely generous of your parents to let us watch you grow up! I hope you love being 18!!!!!!!!!!

  30. Happy Birthday Spud!! You are so lovely on the outside and I am sure even more so on the inside.

  36. Sobbing. I’m absolutely sobbing. Thanks a lot Robyn!
    Happy Birthday Dear Spud! Hope your 18th is your best yet!!

  37. Happy Birthday, Spud. If I’d had a daughter when I was 18, she’d be 40 by now…now that’s scary! I liked the suggestion of starting a journal or a diary. I wish I’d done one faithfully, because at the ripe old age of 58, there are so many years of my life that I can’t even remember now… they seem to have vanished from my memory. A journal would have been great…

  40. Happy, happy birthday, Spud!
    What a beautiful tribute to a special
    daughter. How wonderful it is to see
    her grow — and how wonderful to know
    that she has grown into a person as
    lovely on the outside as she is in her
    mind and spirit.

  44. Happy Birthday Spud! My middle daughter is also graduating from high school this year. It is hard to believe how fast you two have grown up. *sob*

  45. Happy Birthday Spud. May the Universe sprinkle you with Peace and Blessings today.
    Robyn, you have done a wonderful job raising your daughter. With you and Fred to guide her, I hope she’ll spread her wings and fly with not even the sky as the limit.
    Have a mag fab day, kiddo!

  46. What a sweet entry, Robym. The 18th birthday is such a big deal. And yes, she has grown into such a lovely young woman. xoxo

  54. NO waaaaaay … she is NOT eighteen! Wah!! Where does the time go?
    Okay, I do know she is really eighteen, and what a lovely girl. Thank you for sharing the photos … I hope the Spud has a wonderful birthday!

  55. What a wonderful entry. Happy 18th, spud!! 🙂 And thanks for the lyrics to that song – we’ll have to rememeber that one for my own little girl, who turns 3 in a few weeks – a long way to 18, thank goodness.

  59. Spud! I can’t believe you have grown-up in front of all of us! You are so pretty! Happy 18th!
    Robyn, I am facing the big 18 with my son in a year and a half. I feel your pride!

  64. I can still see us sitting on the floor with her running back and forth between us at your place in brunswick……….she will always be our baby girl :~~-(

  66. The Spud is 18??? What? When did that happen? No way!!!! Oh well, Happy Birthday Spud! Can’t believe you’ve grown up so fast!!!

  68. happy birthday spud!
    Is it sad I remember reading when she was 14? Sometimes when I think about how long I’ve been reading some sites, I feel like I’ve done nothing but sit here the whole time (which isn’t the case, but still)

  69. This is so sweet, and touching, and heartwarming.
    Happy happy Little Potato Girl. (Just in case you have different lingo down there in AL, spud is a potato up here in the North.)

  75. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SPUD!
    Wow, it seems like just yesterday you were 14… can’t believe 4 years have flown by just like that…!
    Hope you had an awesome day 🙂
    From a fan in New Zealand!

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