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10 Fort Campbell Families-Fall Things Ive Learned BY HADLEY PARK AND KALEB LEIGH At rst its gonna sting A dierent kind of pain Your heart will feel real numb Your mind will just go blank You wont know what to say When everybody asks So youll paint on a smile And wear it like a mask One day you might feel like breaking down One day you might feel like youre left out Praying helps Find some friends that you can trust through thick and thin See the good in all things rst These are things Ive learned Dont focus on the things That only make you mad When good times come around Hang on with all you have One day you might feel like breaking down One day you might feel like youre left out Praying helps Find some friends that you can trust through thick and thin See the good in all things rst These are things Ive learned One day you might feel like breaking down One day you might feel like youre left out Praying helps Find some friends that you can trust through thick and thin See the good in all things rst These are things Ive learned See the good in all things rst These are things Ive learned MOMENTS WITH MOMS CONTINUED... age of 4. Its very stressful at times especially when the 2-year-old is sitting on my 1- year-olds head. Then the 4-year-old wants to wrestle you or the babies. Everyone wants attention and every child needs my love and patience. Thank goodness for neigh- bors with kids. We spend a lot of time in the sprinkler the baby pool and playing with Mia from next door. Ive had a taste of what three kids feels like and hats off to the moms who do it 365 days a year. What advice do you have for first-time moms Take a breath and count to 10. Walk out of the room if you need to. If you are calm they will be calm. Dont hesitate to call a friend and tell her you just need a break and a margarita. Thats what they are there for. Take a trip to visit family. You dont have to be perfect. Own up to your mistakes and try again. Tomorrow is another day. How long have you been a singersong writer I have been singing for as long as I can remember. I spent a lot of time working jobs that never felt right but playing music comes as naturally to me as a duck swimming in water. I started writing songs while I was going to college at Belmont University. Being the daughter of a nine-time No. 1 songwriter felt like big shoes to fill. I didnt have the con- fidence for a very long time. One day I just realized I wear my own shoes. No one expects me to be my dad Richard Leigh. I love music and it will always be a part of my life. I finally feel like I am on the path Im meant to be on. How did Hadley Park come to be In Nashville songwriters get together and write songs just like most people clock in for work. They dont always know each other and sometimes they are set up by pub- lishers or other songwriters. Courtney Dashe and I were set-up on a blind co-write and we were writing with a new country artist named Tahne Stillwell. The three of us were kind of amazed at our writing chemistry. It wasnt long after we met that Courtney and I found out we were both pregnant. Our girls were born four days apart. We bonded over impending moth- erhood and songwriting. When the babies were really little the two of us wanted to keep writing but felt most people wouldnt understand having a baby around breastfeeding and the crying during a co-write. We began writing every Tuesday to keep it fresh. The babies would sit in their bouncy seats and we would create stories and songs. Sometimes we would just visit. It was good for the soul. One day Courtney had this crazy idea to make an EP with all the songs we had been writing. That idea turned in to another crazy idea and here we are. We bounced around many different band names but at the end of the day our daughters were a huge part in bringing us together. In honor of Parker and Hadley we call ourselves Hadley Park. What is the first single from Hadley Park about Our first single was written unknowingly with my 10-year-old nephew Kaleb. He was diagnosed with Leukemia at age 6 battled it for two years went into remission and was re-diagnosed in September of last year. Shortly after his second diagnosis he decided to put his heart on his sleeve by writing about the things he had learned and how he was coping with the news. Wiser words were never spoken by man or child. We wanted to share his message and be as authentic to his thoughts and words as we could. We also wanted to find a way to help with his medical bills so we made him the third co-writer on our song Things Ive Learned. We used lines directly from his blog like praying helps and things Ive learned among other lines. When the song was finished and recorded we surprised Kaleb in front of his entire school in Virginia. He was beaming with pride. Kaleb was a songwriter and didnt even know it. That warm night in May we held a benefit concert for him at a local brewery and raised over 9000. We still have a long way to go to paying off his medical bills but we sure are making a good run of it. The song was released on iTunes on May 28 the official kick-off to fundraising and the night of our show. One-third of profits from our iTunes sales goes toward his med- ical bills and 5 from every Things Ive Learned T-shirt sold goes to him. Whats in the future for Hadley Park We will be filming the video for Things Ive Learned in August and releasing it in September we will be featured on Hippie Radio in October and we have several shows in Virginia and Tennessee. Were working on completing our first EP. Until then you can purchase Things Ive Learned by Hadley Park on iTunes. Visit www.WeAre HadleyPark.com Facebook.comwearehadleypark www.gofundme.comcuringkaleb.