HAPPY FRIDAY, ALL, YOU ALL REALLY OPENED UP ON THE LAST BLOG, YOU LET YOUR HEARTS OUT, AND MADE ME THINK JUST HOW MUCH WE HAVE BOTTLED UP, INSIDE THE BLOG WAS ABOUT LOVED ONES WHO HAD PASSED, AND HOW REALLY THEY WERE STILL HERE , WE CARRY ON THERE TRADITIN,S AND HOPES AND DREAMS, WHICH IN TURN WE PASS DOWN TO OUR OFFSPRING, I,M VERY HOPEFUL THAT SYNDEE. OLD TOAD GIL, BARB AND SONYA, HAD A SUPER GREAT THANKSGIVING, AND REALIZED THERE LOVED ONES WERE STILL WITH THEM, AND THAT SONYA WAS ABLE TO LET IT GO, I,VE KNOWN THIS LADY FOR YEARS, AND I KNEW OF THE SITUATION, BUT I DID,NT KNOW WHEN, UNTIL NOW, ALL I KNEW WAS AT THE HOLIDAYS, SHE WOULD CLOSE YOU OUT NEVER SEEMED TO ENJOY, THANKSGIVING, BUT THIS YEAR SHE DID, SHE LET IT GO, WHICH BRINGS ME TO ME, SOME OF YOU HAVE EMAILED, YOU MUST OF HAVE HAD A ROUGH LIFE TO WRITE THE SONGS YOU WRITE, AND THE TRUTH IS THERE RIGHT, YOU SEE MOM AFTER DAD DIED, TURNED TO ALCAHOL. SEEMD AS THOUGH SHE COULD,NT GET ENOUGH, AND I WAS ASHAMED TO BRING MY FRIENDS HOME, BECAUSE I NEVER KNEW. WHAT SHAPE SHE,D BE IN, TIME BROUGHT ABOUT THE CHANGE IN MY STEPFATHER, HE TOO SOON BECAME A WEEKEND, THEN DAILY DRINKER RIGHT ALONG WITH MOM, AND THE FIGHTS WERE ON EVERY WEEKEND, ME AND MY 4 STEP BROTHERS AND SISTERS WERE STUCK, TO HEAR THE THE SCREAMING, AND FINALY THE PUNCHES, AND YES I,VE SEEN MY MOM GO TO JAIL, MORE THAN ONCE, BUT NEVER SOBER, NOW SOME OF THE FIGHT,S WERE ABOUT ME, I WAS THE GIFTED ONE, AS MY STEPFATHER NAMED ME, AND INSTEAD OF PRIDE IT CREATED A JEOULOUSY THAT WENT ON,UNTIL ALMOST HIS DYING DAY,, WHEN I ASKED WHY HE WAS SO HARD ON ME, AND HE EXPLAINED, HE HAD KIDS TOO, AND THEY WERE,NT MUSCIANS, THAT IT SEEMED TO HIM I GOT ALL THE SPECIAL TREATMENT, HE SAID, WAS,NT NOTHIN PERSONEL, BUT THEN HE WAS,NT ON THE RECEIVING END, I WAS,, NOW YOU,D THINK THAT OUT OF HOME WITH ALL THAT GOING ON, NO KID COULD TURN OUT GOOD, BUT THATS WHERE YOUR WRONG, WE ALL TURNED OUT FINE. AND NONE OF US ARE INTO ALCAHOL, WHY THEY WERE BUSY DOING THERE THING, WE WERE BUSY BECOMING A FAMILY, THEY SHOWED US SO MUCH, BY ACCIDENT WE LEARNED NOT TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE, AND I LEARNED THE WORD LOVE, MADE THINGS A HOLE LOT BETTER, SO AS MOST OF YOU KNOW WERE RECORDING, SO FAR THREE SONGS ARE IN PROCESS, AND THERE WHAT YOU ASKED FOR ONE UPBEAT COUNTRY ONE SUPER LOVE SONG, AND OF COURSE A SOUTHERN ROCKER, THIS PAGE IS MORE THAN A MUSIC PAGE IT PAGE OF HEARTS, YOURS.. KINDA A VERY SPECIAL, I LOVE YOU ALL AND I THANK YOU HOPEFULLY SOON WILL PUT SOME OF THE NEW TRACKS UP, AND THAT YOU ALL LOVEM, TO ALL HAVE SUPER DAY, GODS BLESSINGS BE WITH YOU, NOW FOR THE LAST PART, THE QUESTION OF QUESTIONS , IS THERE A MOMMAS SONG,, WHY OF COURSE, YOU SEE WE ALL LOVE OUR MOMMA,, HUGS AND LOVE ALL/ DAN