Happy Father's Day!

[BettyO]

Quote:Happy Father's Day.

Honor your dad as long as he's with you.

I was a Daddy's girl, and he was the one who told me he loved me better than anything else in the world. (Sadly I wasn't given the chance to pass this love on to children of my own.)

Maybe someone else, too, can relate to this:

Still Missing You After All These Years

I was only eight years old
When mom told me that you died.
I didn't fully know what it meant.
I felt numb, but I still cried.

I didn't know how big a hole
your passing would leave.
I didn't understand how much loneliness
I was about to receive.

As the years have gone by,
I've forgotten a few things,
Like the sound of your voice,
And how your laughter used to ring.

There have been thousands of times
When I've wished you were still here,
To celebrate all of my joys,
And help me calm my fear.

This brought a lump to my throat, Eva - beautiful!!

My beloved Dad died of a massive heart attack on a morning when I left to go up to Surratt House for a dedication of what is now the "Wok and Roll" Restaurant in DC (Old Boarding House.) He seemed fine at breakfast that morning. By 8 PM when I returned home that evening, he was dead - having dropped dead in the hallway after coming home from church at 2 PM. Dad gave me my love of history - he was a wonderful man, smart, funny and I was "his girl".....