Seventeen in 2017

I don't know how I got to be so old.  I don't feel like I should be 43 but here I am, 43 years old and now I have a seventeen year old daughter.  How the heck does this happen?  Well, I know the technical aspects of producing life and how we all age as time passes.  I can deduce that in the year 2000 I had a child.  Yes, it all makes perfect sense when we look at those fine details.  I just have a hard time believing it has been 17 years already.  I often feel like I simply have no clue what I am doing and am making things up as I go.  It is crazy.  Well, Natty Sue is seventeen and she is truly a wonderful girl.  She has her struggles and her challenges but she tries to be kind to everyone and would do whatever she possibly could to help someone in need.  Today she was very excited to wear her new cat tights to school.  What a goofball.  She loves them and said everyone else thought they were great as well.  I feel blessed and fortunate to be her father.  Thanks for being a most wonderful daughter and Happy Birthday Natty!