Happy Birthday and Happy Father’s Day, Daddy
Dad as your birthday and Father’s Day are approaching I wanted to tell you how much you mean to me.
Growing up you were the “man with the keys”, “the man who could fix anything and it usually included the use of a coat hanger” and the “man who cut the ears off the chocolate bunny Easter morning.”
I remember you taking us out in the snow on a toboggan, walking through the snow to cut down our very own Christmas tree, having you pull me behind the boat at first light so that we could have the smooth water and the lake to ourselves. I remember you putting your foot over mine on the accelerator and asking me, “If I had ever gone 100 mph?” You were one cool cucumber when I turned down the One Way the WRONG WAY! I will never forget the day you let me drive to the Dairy Queen and I got to eat my ice cream cone while driving home!
Do you remember the day I drove my car through the garage? Your first question was, “Is the boat ok?”
I think of all the times that my friends were in trouble and they would call you, even in the middle of the night. You made the paths home smoother for many of us. You weren’t a soft touch, no you had boundaries, but you had compassion.
There are so many things that I want to thank you for, but I am sure that I won’t be able to remember them all but here is a short list:
For telling me that I could be anything and that nothing was out of my grasp
For loving me when I was pretty unlovable
For showing me how a husband should treat his wife
For teaching me to drive
For making me pass your Driver’s Test after the State thought I could drive
For showing me that if you make a promise you keep it, even if it hurts
For pulling me all those very early mornings behind the boat just so I could have the best water
For interviewing every boy that ever took me out on a date.
For having Rules not just guidelines
For coming to get me when I rented that awful room and thought I could live on my own at 16. You were right! I didn’t know much and belonged at home
For taking me to lunch at the Elk’s Club. I always felt so grown up
For making me pay my own way
For working two jobs so I could go to private school and college
For all the Sundays that you played Monopoly with us kids
For the countless hours you worked with me on Math
For the pink champagne on my 16th Birthday
For buying me my first Beatles album
For answering all my questions
For all the times you forgave me
Daddy, you are the best a girl could hope for. I love you!
Dad as your birthday and Father’s Day are approaching I wanted to tell you how much you mean to me.
Growing up you were the “man with the keys”, “the man who could fix anything and it usually included the use of a coat hanger” and the “man who cut the ears off the chocolate bunny Easter morning.”
I remember you taking us out in the snow on a toboggan, walking through the snow to cut down our very own Christmas tree, having you pull me behind the boat at first light so that we could have the smooth water and the lake to ourselves. I remember you putting your foot over mine on the accelerator and asking me, “If I had ever gone 100 mph?” You were one cool cucumber when I turned down the One Way the WRONG WAY! I will never forget the day you let me drive to the Dairy Queen and I got to eat my ice cream cone while driving home!
Do you remember the day I drove my car through the garage? Your first question was, “Is the boat ok?”
I think of all the times that my friends were in trouble and they would call you, even in the middle of the night. You made the paths home smoother for many of us. You weren’t a soft touch, no you had boundaries, but you had compassion.
There are so many things that I want to thank you for, but I am sure that I won’t be able to remember them all but here is a short list:
For telling me that I could be anything and that nothing was out of my grasp
For loving me when I was pretty unlovable
For showing me how a husband should treat his wife
For teaching me to drive
For making me pass your Driver’s Test after the State thought I could drive
For showing me that if you make a promise you keep it, even if it hurts
For pulling me all those very early mornings behind the boat just so I could have the best water
For interviewing every boy that ever took me out on a date.
For having Rules not just guidelines
For coming to get me when I rented that awful room and thought I could live on my own at 16. You were right! I didn’t know much and belonged at home
For taking me to lunch at the Elk’s Club. I always felt so grown up
For making me pay my own way
For working two jobs so I could go to private school and college
For all the Sundays that you played Monopoly with us kids
For the countless hours you worked with me on Math
For the pink champagne on my 16th Birthday
For buying me my first Beatles album
For answering all my questions
For all the times you forgave me
Daddy, you are the best a girl could hope for. I love you!
