Friday, November 1, 2019
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My father was an amazing role model. He taught me how to fish and hunt. I remember one of my first adventures. I was only around ten and, we woke up to around 12 inches of snow! This was one of my first hunting trips with my dad and my teasing brother Dom. We shared many fun memories of hunting trips, in the mountains of the Catskills. This precious time with my father is when I learned all my hunting skills. In my early twenties, when I was self employed, my father helped me with my work. I want to express my overwhemling gratitude to my father for all of the help. We bonded. His skills and my skills, made the perfect team as a father and son. This is an experience I will never let go of. My father, in his later years was a jokester, he loved to tease his grandchildren. I remember he would tease my daughter, about her lambchop puppet. He would jokingly say he was going to eat him, which always made my little girl hide her precious bed buddy away from dad. However, we loved him, pranks and all! One other funny memory I have with my father has to do with a jelly donut. I took dad to the store and left him in his cart. Telling him to stay there while I went to go grab an item. I come back, and he wasn't there. He was by the pasteries and had half of a powdered jelly donut in his hands, powdered sugar on his hands and jelly on his face. I couldn't take him anywhere! Dad you've given me some great life experiences, yet the biggest thing you have ever done for me . . . was to accept Jesus Christ into your heart. As it says in Romans 10: 9-10. I know that your presence is with me. Even though you may not be physically here, you are still with us, watching over us from heaven. I am at peace knowing you are in a better place. Thank you. I look forward to joining you, when it is my time, and see you run to me. I love you dad, more today than yesterday, but never as much as tomorrow. Thanks for being such awesome father and grandad to my children.
