Happy Fathers' Day & Double Duty Parent Day

I just wanted to give a Happy Fathers' Day to all the men sitting watching the sports channel today & all the moms' who are both mom & dad and don't have time to watch the sports channel.

My husband is special, on this day especially. When I met him I already had children, 2. He dated me anyway. He helped teach #1 son how to pee in a urinal and outside the car door. He gave my daughter the love of a steady male figure to look up to that was honest & fair. Even when she swore she hated him & wished I never married him. He adopted the children about 2yrs after we got married. He CHOOSE them and me. We have been together almost 28 yrs., been married almost 24 yrs.

He stood there and took shit from the kids when they were mad at him and still loaded their soccer & band instruments into the car for another 3 day trip in as many weeks. He manipulated money, what little we had, so we could afford $$$ dollar cleats, $$$ saxophones, flutes & Taekwando gear (for 3 of 18 classes they SWORE they would attend).
He taught them the value of hard work and earning something you wanted. We didn't buy our kids cars. They did. We paid for them without their knowledge, got a coupon book and every month they sent their car payment to the bank. When they made the last payment he handed them a savings account book with every payment in the account. Both kids save money better than we do.

He taught them that just because a man cries it does not make him a wuss or anything else. When his daughter ran away he quietly went into the bathroom & cried he was so worried something had happened to her. Me? I was furious & had every intention of kicking her ass until her nose bled buttermilk. He didn't know I knew.

When his daughter married you could have picked the bugs from his teeth he grinned so much. He wasn't worried about the cost, he was "Father of the bride".
When our son graduated same teeth, different bugs. That was "his son" going across that stage.
People would always tell us how much daughter looked like mom and son was the spitting image of his dad.
He always said "Had grammice & I ever divorced I would have fought for custody of my kids." Little did he know there really wasn't a fight, some days he could have had them! LOL

Hes' now a grandpa/goofball. Four terrorists that climb on, harass & generally give him grief on a regular basis that he dearly loves and they dearly love him.

Sometimes daughter & son are so much like him in the way they think and act that I'm not sure hes' not their "genetic dad". To me? He's better than that, he choose to be their dad.

ANY MAN CAN BE A FATHER,
BUT IT TAKES SOMEONE SPECIAL
TO BE A DADDY.


Father & Son


Daughter & Dad (below)




Grandpa on the annual "pick a Halloween pumpkin" trip with 3 of 4.