Ever change

I Wish you were around to see me as a kid, to tell my kids stories of my childhood. Show them how to build a fire or build a house. You would know that’s the stuff I’d like to learn.

It would have been nice to have you there for:

At my one and only honor roll ceremony in the 7th grade,

Or My highly school graduation. It was a big accomplishment because no one in my family has, and still hasn’t. First generation right here baby!!!

I wish you would have been there to tell me not to date… focus on my future. I never got that empty threat that you’d be cleaning a shotgun on the front porch to intimidate any guy I brought home. It would have been a fatherly thing to say, and like any daughter, I’d do the exact opposite anyways.🤣

I wish you had been there….

My first car accident

My first pay check

My first big life screw up.

I Wish you had been there to see my face when I was accepted into nursing school, and then when I got pinned at my nursing graduation ceremony. I think about how proud you would have been. You could have been the person to pin me.

I wish I had you to walk me down the isle on my wedding day. I’ve never looked prettier.

It would have been nice admire and cherish something so simple of yours like a hat or a belt buckle of yours. Something I could keep as a memorabilia.

I wish you knew your grandkids and your son in law- they are the best part of me. My husband is the kind of guy who would ask you for my hand. I wish you had been there when my kids were born. You might have missed me born but grandkids are the best part of parenthood, (so I’m told) I’m not there yet.

I wish you had been there when I got a cancer diagnosis. I wish you had been there for my kids and husband. A strong man to hold it all together and tell me and them, “she’s a tough girl, there’s nothing she can’t handle” and it was all gonna be ok. Or be there while I was going into my first surgery to remove the cancer, I needed a fathers hand to hold. It would have been nice to have a father there.

My thank you to you….

I want to thank all the fathers out there who are there. Doing all the wishes a kid could ask for.I want to thank all the men out there who did support me growing up who weren’t my father, who took me in when I had no home, who care for me and watched over me like their own. You may not be my father but all of you accumulate to what I know a father to be. This Father’s Day is for you. For men like my husband and my sons who will grow to be great men too.

That’s what Father’s Day means to me. It’s not the dinners you go out to, the things you buy for your kids. It’s about time shared, its about the Memories made together. It’s the one thing someone can’t take from you. They are your moments and memories, the inside jokes, genuine laughter, and never ending dad jokes.

Truth is, I hope all the fathers out there who’ve done this or are currently in the think of it, just know all a daughter could wish for in a father like you.

You wouldn’t have done it perfect

You would have made mistakes

It would have been really hard

But at least I would have had you❤️

Happy Father’s Day to you!