Father's Day!

For those of us who were raised by men who didn't give us life, but instead by men who gave us a life, I share this wisdom.  Happy Father's Day, Dad!  I love you!

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons [and daughters].  ~Johann Schiller

Food For Thought - Father's Day Edition

 Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.  ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

 Dear Superman,


Time sure flies, doesn't it?  This picture is already 11 years old!  For almost 20 years, you've been their Protector and you have kept "a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life".  I couldn't have picked a better Father for my children.


I love you,


Erin

Father's Day

Well, the family is still camping and the kids and I are going to be taking Superman to McDonald's for breakfast on the way home from camping. (Then we'll take him out to dinner, but he doesn't know that!)
In the meantime, this is a Father's Day present to my dad...a picture of us, taken on our first Christmas together. For years I would talk about "when we got Daddy". Boy, was I lucky. Now that I'm older, I know that this was our first Christmas in our new house (we moved in three days before Christmas and Santa still came! A daddy, a new house, and Santa Claus...really what else does a little girl want?

Dad, from me to you, Happy Father's Day! I love you!

Friday Photo Flashback - Father's Day Edition

It is Friday Photo Flashback time. As always, I urge you to join Alicia and the rest of us as we pull photos out of photo albums (and from boxes!) to share our memories from the pre-digital age.

I'm still camping, but I didn't want to miss the party, so I found an extra special photo to share with you all. I hope you like it.

My photo this week is a Father's Day-themed photo. This is a picture of me, my baby brother, and my Dad. I was not-quite 7 and my brother looks to be about 4-6 months old (he was huge!) and my dad was so old...he was all of 27! Even though I was not his biological child, my dad has always loved me as if I were. Through "hiring" my bicycle seat to working on my first car to telling me he loved me when I really screwed up, my dad has always been there for me. No, he's not materially generous and he can be pretty gruff, but through thick and thin, he's always been there...having faith in me. Isn't that was dad's are supposed to do?


So, there you have it...my Friday Photo Flashback photo. Thanks for letting me walk down memory lane with you. It put a smile on my face, that is for sure.

Don't forget, if you want to see what everyone else is doing, head over to Alicia's at More Than Words...it is always fun.