Bubbles

While my dad is away on vacation, I'm in charge of counting the money and closing up his restaurant. I went in a little early tonight because my Insight isn't working properly and I HAVE to watch Dancing with the Stars tonight (it's the finale). While downstairs, I got to talking to a man who is ALWAYS in drinking and talking to my dad. I can't remember his name, but I see him almost everytime I'm here, and he's a real nice guy. I was talking to him, and he was telling me about how proud my dad is of my brother and me and how much he loves us. I almost started crying, because Dad doesn't tell us a lot of the time how proud of us he is and how much he loves us. Sure when we end a conversation he always says he loves us, but we've never actually had him sit us down and tell us these things. So talk to this guy was a real eye opener.
One thing he told me was that Dad is/was pretty upset about Tyler and Jessi having a miscarraige. He said Dad was so extatic when he found out because Dad never thought he'd live long enough to see his grand kids. To me, this is weird, because I've always worried about my parents not being there to see me get married or have my babies, but I never thought they worried about such things.
My parents had us when my dad was 38ish and when my mom was 36ish, which is pretty late in today's world. So, Dad's 60, and my mom's 59. Ever since I was a young girl, I've always been scared about my parents passing away before I have my 2 most important goals met. I think that's part of the reason why I was so ready to marry Matt when I was 19. I wanted them to be able to see me married, and to see their grandkids, and for me to have them be proud of the woman/wife/mother I had become.
I've always been in a hurry to get married and have babies, and after tonight, I'm even in more of a hurry to do those things so my parents can have all of their goals accomplished to.