Daddys's Little Girl

Raising a teenage girl is hard enough, a single dad raising a teenage daughter is even harder. My heart is aching for my daughter Mackenzie. She is suffering the heartache of young love. Even though she is not allowed to "date" until she turns 16 in September, I have not forbidden her from having friends that are boys. She swore he was just her best friend, but Im not THAT naive.

Mackenzie's "friend's" parents treated her pretty inconsiderately over the past few days. I'm sure they saw nothing wrong with what they were doing, but even if they didn't want her to hang out with her son they could have come out and said so instead of lying and filling her with false hope.

Of course, Mackenzie is mad, sad, frustrated... you name it. I try to tell her that she is only 15 and there is so much more in life. She doesnt want to hear it when I tell her she doesnt need to have a boy that she "really likes".

Mackenzie is a beautiful girl, and gets plenty of attention from boys. She doesn't need to feel like they give her feeling of importance and worth.

Why can't they just say "little girls" a little bit longer?

The Future

As I look toward the future, I look with fear and uncertainty. I will be completing my bachelors degree in business management this year. My area of interest is sports marketing and promotion. With the economy slowing down as it is, and with no signs of fixing itself anytime soon, unemployment will continue to rise and companies will contine to cut back, I wonder what the job future will hold for me.

After my divorce, I went back to school in order to be able to provide a better future for my family. So, now I am wondering if I could have better spent these last few years. It concerns me that I wont be able to provide for my family. I also plan on remarrying sometime (hopefully sometime in the not too distant future), but I will not do that until I have a good foothold on things.

Perhaps I am overeacting, but it is a real concern for me. If anyone reading this has any contacts in marketing, or sports marketing/promotions, I would be interested in networking and discussing outlooks with you.

Getting Started

Well since it seems like everyone in the family is blogging now, I guess I had better jump on the bandwagon.

A little background on us. I am Scott, proud father of 4 awesome kids. We live in Spanish Fork, Utah, where we have lived for almost 5 years. Prior to that we lived in Southern California where I was raised.

I am in my senior year at Utah Valley University and am finishing my bachelors in business management. I am currently interning in the athletic department.

Most evenings lately it seems like have been at UVU athletic events or watching my son Scout play basketball, or down watching my son bailey or my nephews wrestle. Fortunately things will start to slow down a little bit. But not for long.