You've Been Warned

So, I'm here in my kitchen, going quite nicely about my own business, fixing dinner for my family, when I happen to flit over to Heather's blog and I see a link to this video.

And I, not even normally much of a cry-er, am weeping uncontrollably into my chicken enchiladas.  I'm thinking of my husband and my daughter and my daddy and my brother and my nieces and...well, my apologies to my family if the enchiladas are unusually salty.  It's the vast quarts of tears. 

If you have a daughter, or a father, or any tear ducts at all, do not listen to this song until you have an entire box of Kleenex already in a holding pattern under your nose and eyes.  (Lyrics here.)

Comments

[Laura]

This is my 10 year olds favorite song! It's a tear jerker!!

[beautiful stranger]

Yeah wow, I'm 21 and not even close to marriage yet (although hopefully one day soon!) and I've always been a big Daddy's girl... beautiful song! One for the archives of potential Father-Daughter dance songs!!

[We are THAT family]

What a beautiful song! I love Steven Curtis Chapman because he is real! He's also a dad. My (twin) sister is adopting thru his organization. What an amazing testimony of a man who understands and supports the importance of adoption. My husband will bawl too when he hears this. He's got two little girls in our home and they have him wrapped.

[mimi2six]

Oh, my. Too many emotions and words in my heart to say anything at all.

[Cheri]

Heh, yeah--hubby came home and told me about it a few months ago and HE teared up...and well I've seen him cry twice in 14 years. LOL I think having a baby girl has mellowed him a bit.

[whittakerwoman]

Tears! Yes! Thanks for the love. H

Oh glory, that song flows in our home a lot. My husband is the more sentimental of the two of us and then we had two girls, now both in college. It is a thing of beauty to watch them dance.

[Kelsey]

Even though you warned me I watched it and bawled wow!

[Kelsey]

Even though you warned me I watched it and bawled wow!

[T with Honey]

My cousin had this played at her wedding reception... a few songs after Butterfly Kisses. There was quite a crowd in the ladies' room after that. It was filled with blubbering idiots trying to fix their mascara. Thank goodness I wore waterproof eye makeup!

[Robyn]

Looo-ooove this song. My husband heard it for the 1st time the other day (we have 3 daughters) and cried like a baby. Then later he was remembering the song and started crying again. Seriously. Wanna get a man to cry? Write a song about his girls. Tears-a-flowin. Girls can do something to a manly daddy. Can't be macho when baby girls are around. Then the mommies cry while we watch them...what a crazy cycle.

[PENSIEVE (the ROBIN one)]

I'll share something kind of blog/wild/cheap thrill with ya--

Some friends and I had opportunity to go to a SCC concert a few weeks ago; I was able to get some FANTASTIC pictures of Steven and his sons Caleb and Will Franklin. Being a mom, I totally melted over the three of them performing together.

After I had thought about it, I decided to share the link with Steven's wife, Mary Beth. At the bottom of the concert post, I have a link back to the post I wrote about the Cinderella video/song (sounds like yours, lol) and some other links.

Weeellll...SOMEONE got hold of my Cinderella post; I don't know if it was Mary Beth or someone else, but all of a sudden I had over 100 hits to that page (this happened over the past weekend)! And it's NOT a current post--I WROTE IT BACK IN NOVEMBER!!!

Soooo, it was nice to have new life breathed into an old post AND to wonder about the "whys"...:).

That's one of those things that give a blog rush, ya know?

:)

[Judy]

My boys LOVE to sing this song on K-Love...it is an awesome song!

[The (Almost) Amazing Mommarino]

Great song! Thanks for sharing the video. I had never seen it, and it was wonderful!

[Kelly @ Love Well]

I heard this song on a SCC sneak peak last summer. I've been in love with it ever since. He has a such a gift for reminding us all of what's really important.

The whole "This Moment" album is amazing, by the way. I spent a week reviewing it last fall when it debuted.

[AprilMay]

My friend and I were just talking about this song today! Neither one of us can bear to listen to it. Why? Because we both have 3 sons, and there is no dancing in our homes. :( Other things, sure, but no "Cinderellas". I guess we need to get Stephen Curtis Chapman to make a song about his sons!

[Mommy Cracked]

I love that song. There is a keepsake book about this song we sell in the Christian bookstore I work in that comes with the CD. It's so beautiful.

[Activities Coordinator]

Now why did you do that to me? Here I go, snivelling off to bed. What a sweet song.

[Tara R]

Oh... that made me cry too!

[Christine @ Serenity How?]

That song breaks me up every time. My kids think it's funny, the little stinkers LOL!

It reminded me so much of my daughters that I posted A Cinderella Story.

The song seems to have really struck a chord with moms and daughters. I know it did for me. :)

[Jenni]

I love the song, but had never seen the video, thanks! According to SCC's website, the little girl in the video is Shaohannah, the eldest of his adopted girls! (The other two in the video are his niece and his son's girlfriend)...I thought that was extra sweet!!!

[Linds]

I am crying too. The song is so beautiful, and it brings back so many memories, but there is no Daddy to dance with his Cinderella any more, and now I am a total mess. My daughter will have to practice with her brothers now. But a good mess, if you know what I want. Memories. Priceless treasures.

[Kim]

Choking down my oatmeal! Every time I hear that song I get choked up, thinking of my husband and my little girl! The video just adds to it! Thanks for sharing!

[Debra P.]

Okay, now my ice cream is salty! Debbie P.

[Scratchin' the Surface]

The years we were 'giving away' our daughters and sons, (yes sons make you bawl like a baby too), the song was Butterfly Kisses, and I'd melt into a blubbery mess every time I heard it. Best tip I got for our daughters' and son's wedding - wear waterproof mascara!