Your Fathers..

[shel90]

Since today is Father's Day, why not create a thread listing your favorite memories with or qualities in your dads/grandfathers/guardians?

I will start...

My dad is is comedian. Growing up, he always made me laugh so hard..sometimes to the point where my ribs hurt. My friends have always told me how much of a goofball he is. I am proud to have a dad who is silly and a child at heart despite being 60 years old.

My dad loved to take us camping and waterskiing so I have several memories of going to Northern AZ and camping during the summertime. My favorite one was when he took us on a 5 day camping trip to Lake Powell when I was 14 years old. Going through this beautiful lake on his boat while suntanning was the best.

Right now, he is going through hardships due to the economy. He just told me that he has to sell everything since his business went under last year. It breaks my heart but he is being very positive and good-humored about it.

I love you, Dad!

 

[Bottesini]

I have lots of good memories of my father. Especially that he took me everywhere with him, when he wasn't at work. He was very dedicated.

Also specifically playing catch in the backyard, and trying to teach me calligraphy with an old fashioned pen and bottle of ink. This in spite of my complete lack of coordination. Maybe he was trying to cure that?

 

[sara1981]

i had great memory with my dad in my lifes

i remind when i was little girl my dad caught huge catfish in Kansas record but im not sure what weight of catfish but my dad hangs pictures of huge catfish i would memory that.

 

[Lissa]

My father used to tickle my feet when he came home from work on a sat lunchtime and if i was still in bed

As a little kid i used to have nightmares so I used to wake up and come down and watch a little tv with him. It was nice to have that bit of time alone with him watching tv, then he used to carry me up the stairs and put me to bed

 

[overthepond]

My father always picks me up from boarding school, he always remember to bring wispa and carton of apple juice (both my favourtie snack which school don't have) for me to snack on in the car on my way home (1 and half hour drive)

Teach me back flipping, swimming tricks.

Cooks wonderful meals and i always misses it when we are too far apart.

He lives in Austria now and i miss him heaps.

 

[Hear Again]

I completely forgot that today is Father's Day. I don't have any good memories of my father, but the one thing I can say I always respected him for was how faithful he was to my dear mother. They were married for 53 years. They married in their early 20s back in the 1940s and lived through some very, very difficult times including being raised during the Great Depression and struggling to survive as a fairly young couple during the 60s and 70s. My father was excellent with money and although we lived in a nice home in the suburbs, he was careful about how he spent his money. One of my friends in high school thought I was rich because of the home and neighborhood I lived in as well as the fact that I received an above average education. We certainly were not rich, but we didn't hurt for money either. My father just knew how to budget his paycheck so that his family did not struggle and always had food on the table. There was even one point in my life where he started buying generics because I had been in the hospital for 2 unsuccessful eye surgeries, my mother required surgery on her foot and I needed to see an ENT and audiologist often due to my hearing loss as well as constant ear infections. There was also a gas shortage and difficult economic times during the 70s, so that did not help our situation either. Fortunately, my father was able to save quite a bit of money during the time which paid off in the long run. My father was able to purchase a summer cottage in Northern Wisconsin that he always wanted when I was 9 years old as well as an RV for camping excursions during the summer. My father may not have treated me well as a child, but he did teach me what it meant to love someone through thick and thin. He also taught me
some valuable lessons about good money management and for that, I will always be thankful. May he rest in peace for that.

 

[~*Kaelei*~]

I have a lot of good memories with my Dad... we were really close when I was a child but we drifted apart when he remarried and I was in High school.

Dad and I were obsessed with Disney... we would always get excited when there's new Disney movie coming out and He would always buy New Disney Movie. Then we both would watch it on the couch together, me on his lap and we would munch the popcorn as we watch the Disney Movie.

We both were also Horror movies fan... so whenever there's a horror movie that looks good, we both would try to go out and see it...that is if Mom doesn't catch us. Mom doesn't like the idea of me going to R rated movie to watch Horror movie with Dad... but I've always been fine... and Dad thought mom was just being silly.

We would always do stuff together.... we would ride bikes together, watch movies together, and I remember that whenever he's working outside in the yard, I would be outside as well (in the summer) and I would watch him as I sit on the steps, playing with barbies as he does the yard work. We would go swimming together and he would teach me neat tricks of swimming. He would flip me over and he would spin me around and so on in the pool.

We also go skiing together... when my Tucker Maxon Oral School was having Ski Trip every year, my Dad would take a day off and go Mt. Hood with me and my classmates and we would always ski together. So much fun! But we haven't skiied together since I left Tucker.... I still go skiing with my friends but my Dad doesn't join me anymore... not since I was in 3rd grade.

My favorite memory is of us together in Disney World when I was only twelve, I was having such a blast, so much fun. We both are Fans of Disney so we both were having so much fun, ride a lot of rides together and we shared a lot of laughs together.

Another favorite memory of Dad and I are during Xmas time.... Xmas time is always special to me because it's a time when Family gathering happens, that Extended family gets together. I remember the first xmas without my Mom and whole side of my Dad's family is coming down for Xmas. Well on the day before Xmas Eve, Dad took the frozen Turkey and set it in the sink in the kitchen and turned on the hot water. He walked away and had to do something, I was upstairs. Like an hour later or so, I walked downstairs and I saw water everywhere on the floor downstairs. I screamed for Dad and he ran into the house, flying the door open, thought something was happening to me. The neighbor was just behind him. Both of them stopped in their tracks and they were shocked to see the water everywhere on the first story. Then We saw a frozen turkey floating in the water, passing us by. I was cracking up at the sight of the turkey floating away from us... soon so was Dad and the neighbor was also cracking up. It was funny sight to see, a huge frozen turkey floating in the water like a boat. Dad was upset that he forgot about the turkey and that he left the water on. But it took us like all night to get rid of the water and Dad told me that we can't have Xmas here....as the carpets are ruined. He called his extended family and they said It's up to me, I get to pick what house that we are gonna have Xmas at. I chose Aunt Lori's house and we all met at her house in Spokane on Xmas Eve. One of the best Xmas because all my extended family was there and I was quite spoiled. lol

 

[Babyblue]

I have a lot of good memories of my Grandfather, I remember him taking me fishing and teaching me how to bait my own hook out in the Gulf. I remember watching him shave on Sunday Morning getting ready for church.

 

[WhisperHorse]

My father is great guy, he had been always there for me thru bad times and good times, even thick and thin too. He loves me for who I am even Im deaf. He always protect me, teaching me EVERYTHING, even he taught me to not allow people walk over me because just Im deaf, just don't let them to and he taught me how to self defense, somehow Im good fighter because of him. He's the best father that I ever have for myself. I love him so much.

 

[Phillips]

My Dad was an attorney. He was passed way front of me, and I was 12 years old!

He loved a boat at Ocean, mostly than lake. He has 5 kids included me! He loved swam the pool at backyard! He was very mellow daddy! He used to hang around with Kennedy brothers to boat and golf too! I never forget and watched Edward Kennedy was sobbed at my daddy's wake funeral!

and More!

I love you Daddy Robert!

 

[deafbajagal]

My father was very abusive to us five girls when we were growing up. He was an alcoholic with a mean streak when he drank.

And I thank him for it. Because of my life experiences, I'm a strong woman. I've learned how to adjust when life throws its punches. I learned how to plan for the worst and pray during the darkest times. I'm self-reliant and independent. I can take punches in stride. And I learned the power of sheer forgiveness.

I fully forgave him. We now have a good relationship, with distance and mutal respect. He has not drank in years, and has learned to cope with stress and pain without using his fists. My children calls him Papa and it is endearing to watch them together. I do thank him.

 

[LuciaDisturbed]

I don't really have any good memories of my dad who gave me up to the state, but I have some really good memories of my Deaf foster dad. He and his wife would take me and my Deaf brother and their 3 other (one of them also Deaf) children to his cabin in far north Wisconsin, about 10 miles from the Upper Michigan Peninsula, we would spend summers and winter breaks there. Often he would take us into Michigan to an awesome skiing resort. The first time I went I had never skied before. He taught me how to downhill ski, and I got pretty good at it real quickly, and that was one of the most awesome experiences of my lifetime. Although I do not like the cold, this is my favorite wintertime activity. He also taught me how to drive a snowmobile and he would take us snowmobiling all over northern Wisconsin into Upper Michigan, another one of my favorite wintertime activities. Unfortunately I didn't stay with this family very long because my needs eventually had changed because I was getting to the age where I needed to live in a large city and learn independent living skills and I needed more accessibility that I wasn't getting in a rural town in southern Wisconsin - I moved back to Milwaukee where I grew up in.

Unfortunately, on Christmas Day of 2005 my foster dad and my brother (then 18) had gone snowmobiling together, and back then it was considered safe to go across the lake if there is ice, but this time, no. Not anymore (I blame global warming - I remember commenting that it felt warmer than usual around that time - I was living north of the Twin Cities at the time so I had a good idea of what the temps would be where they were). While they were making their way back home to the cabin across the lake the ice gave way and both drowned. They did not realize there was an issue with the ice because they had seen many other neighbors go across the lake in their snowmobiles and all of them were just fine and then they also were fine when they were making their way away from home on the lake to get on a trail, it was only when they were coming back later on that the ice broke and both went into the water and both did not make it.

He was a great foster dad to us, took great care of us, provided us with everything we needed. I think about him from time to time.

RIP M.A.