Father’s Day is this Sunday, so I decided to share some of my favorite memories of my Dad today. My Mom helped instill my love of reading, cooking and theatre while my Dad taught me to enjoy stupid movies (i.e. the kind with fart jokes, thanks Dad!) and that Dads can fix anything. Seriously, my parents must have a little bit of magic in them. My Mom can get any stain out of clothes and my Dad keeps things from breaking down. Me, I’m completely inept at both. 🙂
Thanks Dad for … Everything!
My Dad has been incredibly supportive of me throughout the years. He …
- Kept Tubbs around, even though he was the worst barn cat EVER. He’d rather watch a mouse run by, then catch it. But you let him remain the King of the Barn.
- Kept my car running for years. Wrote notes to my mechanics to tell them what needed to be fixed when you didn’t have the time to do it yourself. And yes, it is kind of awkward telling your mechanic that you have a note from your Dad, but at least the right things got fixed!
- Let Emeril takeover his chair when he visited. And didn’t grumble too hard when Emeril would wake-up him up every morning with friendly (annoying) head butts to his chin and ignored Emeril’s attempts to crawl under the blanket next to him.
- Faithfully went car shopping with me (and Mom too!) every time to make sure I didn’t buy a lemon. And to also give me this gem, “Can you reach the pedals? See over the steering wheel? At the same time?” Yeah. I’m that short.
- Kindly put together all of my pre-fab furniture while I hovered (not-so-helpfully) overhead when I moved to Minneapolis.
- Attended all my activities with his video camera perched on his shoulders, filming me in all my glory.
- Took his first plane ride to visit me, although it’s been a few years since his last visit. Max hasn’t even gotten a chance to pester him.
Thanks for being such a great Dad! I love you!
Happy Father’s Day!
Awe, that’s very sweet. I always made my dad put together my furniture too and I would try not to laugh as he’s swear up a storm. I wonder where I get that? lol! See you Sunday!
LOL! I’m pretty sure my Dad was saying some not-so-nice words under his breath too! It’s a good things are dads are handy and taught us all the good swear words too! 🙂 See you Sunday!
Awesome tribute Tanya! You are very fortunate to have loving parents that have supported you every step of the way and helped you with so many different things. I bet they really miss having you around.
Funny how Father’s Day seems to be earlier this year, with June 1st being on a Sunday it makes this Sunday the 3rd Sunday in June instead of next weekend, which is what I am use to it being. Thankfully I mailed my card to my father early so he should have it by now. Talk to ya soon… and enjoy your day 🙂
Thanks, Sicorra. I am very fortunate and hopefully they feel the same way about me. They do. It’s kind of a rule, I think. 🙂
Thank you – I swear I had to triple check the calendar when I saw Father’s Day was on the 15th. It seemed too early to me! But I figured every retailer couldn’t have gotten the day wrong, right? 🙂
Have a great weekend Sicorra!