As I wrote my post to you I also wondered if it is harder for us who grew up with the most wonderful dads - to realize our kids didn't get that. I am so lucky that my dad has an enormous impact on my children.
Like your father, mine has always done a lot of volunteer work and been held in high esteem in our community. He is totally the person who was a role model for me and he is the reason I "got involved". I remember being asked to be the United Way Board President. I said to Dad - "They asked the wrong person - I can't do that". He told me I totally had it in me and he would help me in any way that he could. I also saw the pride on his face as I took office and later as he sat on the board that I chaired for a record 3 years. Dad never missed a meeting!
I hold your neighbour in highest esteem. Nancy Drew was highest on my list of Favs when I grew up. All my girlfriends were into her and we all collected and shared the books. The series sits on the bookshelf in Ashley's room at the cottage. One favourite childhood memory is that my best friend, Kathy and I had a quarrel at age 9 while she was reading #8 - "Nancy's Mysterious Letter". I told her to give me back the book and she would NEVER read it. To this day I have not allowed her to read it (it has become a long standing joke between us). When she and her husband visited the cottage, I would not allow her to sleep in Ashley's room - she might try to read that book!
Ahhh.... the good memories of our lives.
18 months ago I invited 2 of my closest childhood friends (including Kathy) and we went out for dinner followed by the Nancy Drew Movie. Boy - it brought it all back for us - "George and Bess" "Carson Drew". Even "Ned Nickerson". It was cute!
In fact, if I could pick the perfect job (in fantasy only b/c the reality would NOT be Nancy Drew-ish at all) I always say I want to be a detective...
Yes, I STILL want to be Nancy Drew. So we can start a DB club here "the Nancy Drews." And I bet you thought of Nancy during the divorce as I did when I did my sleuthing!!!
That really was a nice post, and a nice warm fuzzy for all of us.
My S15 sorta forgot about me, but that is okay 'cause he is giving a girl some roses from our yard...this is a first for him and it is so, so fun to watch it happen. IF he turns about to be the kind of man who thinks to give flowers, how terrific is that!
AH: I'm glad I gave you a good feeling - you deserve that!
I haven't heard from my son either, but hope to. He will be opening my E Valentine shortly. I sent him one with a talking cat - he has 2 so it will make him laugh. He will read it when he gets to work today.
Your son sounds wonderful! Homegrown roses in winter - you must live in the south! I have some lovely flowers outside of my rooms - mostly hibiscus, but I've seen roses - such a treat for those of us snowbirds.
Summer: My dad instilled in me a love of reading and also of "mysterious" things and hidden passageways. He even built me a "secret room". He finished the walls in a gable of our home and put in a light and partial floor. It became a secret hideout for my Nancy Drew best friends and I. To access it, I had to open a framed portrait that dad had put on hinges. Drove my siblings crazy when we played Hide and Seek and they could never find me! My friends still remember our secret meetings - "The Ghostly Trio". We did seances, read dirty magazines and talked about boys. Ahhh... the memories. To think my dad did all that for me.
yes, I think I'd better go phone dad. I'm so lucky to be able to do that I know.
So today, take the time to tell someone you love that you love them. What they mean to you. It doesn't need to be a "love interest" - just someone who means something to you.
You are a doll face.
This is sooo true.
Have a great day Mamma.
Thanks !
Live Simply Love Generously Care Deeply Speak Kindly Leave the rest to God
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously... can I come play?? That is the most amazing thing I've ever heard!! What a wonderful daddy!! I'd like one of those secret hideaways to crawl into and cozy up now! Talk about a safe haven!!
When we put the house up for sale (needed a larger one with 4 kids), I told my siblings. My brother was SO jealous. Then Dad reminded him that he built him a skating rink every winter for him and his friends to play hockey (didn't mention the Ice Capades my girlfriends and I staged yearly). Brother was ok with it after that and we all spent the next 2 months playing in there.
I phoned Dad just now. I knew he would be out but I left a loving message and reminded him of that special gift of so many years ago under my pillow. I never know when it could be his last Valentine's Day - never knew 3 years ago would be it for my Mom either. And it NEVER hurts to say I love you one more time.
My dad always gave me a one of the books every valentines day. In the summer my mom would put ice-tea in a mason jar and I would carry it into the woods and read.
My dad is a hopeless romantic He gives my mom a silk flower and a poem every year for valentines day.
They have these love lines in the paper here and he writes on every year for her.
So my mom will be getting her 34 silk flower this year and love poem written especially for her
