Emberwood Girls, they wanna have fun

He smiled, settling once more. She sure painted pretty pictures. But — "I thought you wanted to travel?" he reminded her, steering her back on track. They were gonna take those girls all over the place before they really settled down.

He turned his head to kiss her face, thinking that he was more in love than he'd ever thought possible. All it took was thinking he might lose her for him to realize how much he needed her in his life. She was everything to him, but everything to their kids, too. He'd be useless as a parent without her, but together?

"We could make their childhood somethin' real special," he told her, equally happy to be painting castles in the sky. "We could take 'em south and show 'em the desert, and then north again so they can see the beach. Then the mountain in time for summer's end, and someplace else for the wintertime. You only get one first year — and sometimes that's all you get with your kids. Let's travel. Let's go all over the damn place."