My Dad was a man of many sayings and quotes, but my favourite of his sayings and quotes was 'One day when everyone else sees a strong and beautiful young lady, I will still see the little girl who was scared of the dark', he had said it many times, but I will always remember the first time I heard him say it.
I was running around in my Grandparents backyard, as most kids do, but I fell and cut my hand open, so instead of telling my Dad that my hand was bleeding quite badly, I attempted to clean it up and put some band aids on it myself, but then I fell of a chair in the kitchen and landed on the injured hand trying to get the band aids.
"Ow!"
"Lacey, sweetheart are you ok?"
"Yeah"
"What happened to your hand?"
"I fell on it outside"
"So what happened in the kitchen just now?"
"I fell off the chair"
"Why were you on a chair in the place?"
"I was trying to get some band aids for my hand"
"Why didn't you tell me baby?"
"Because I wanted to be a big girl and do it by myself Daddy"
"One day when everyone else sees a strong and beautiful young lady, I will still see the little girl who was scared of the dark"
"Daddy what does that mean?"
"(Chuckles), it means that no matter how old you are, I will always see you as you are now"