Happy Father's Day Daddy!!!

Ok so my dad isn't reading this but I want to wish my father a very happy father's day! Ohhh man. I cannot say enough about my dad. He's the best! Alittle bit about my dad, he was in the army and left just to marry my mother. He met my mom while he was stationed in Panama, btw. My father worked while my mom went to school in the early years of their marriage. My mother got a high paying job and my dad opted to be an at-home father while my sister and I were younger. Now my father flys airplanes but during the early years, wow my father was my mother, sorta speak.

He is a master at multitasking. He would cook, iron my mom's clothes for work, my uniform for school and then take us all to work and school in the mornings. Food was ready when we came home and he religiously picked us up from school until the age of 8 or 9.  Even now he does some of the same things when he's home from a trip. My father is kind, generous and always put everyone before himself, which is what everyone tells me I do. While my friends grew up with no father or an absent dad (he was there but not there), my dad was the string that held us all together.

He is my rock. I tell him everything, even the day I met Josh I talked non stop about my dad. Josh was so intrigued that when I lived in NYC and my dad flew into Savannah for the night (bc he flys military contracted planes) he called my dad's hotel and asked to take him to dinner. My father approved of Josh and I was on my way to live with him. If my dad approves then it's official in my book.

My dad is so funny. His laugh is contagious. My dad learnt to cook from my mom and completely pushed her out of the kitchen. Now when my mom wants to cook my dad is by her side cooking with her. My father is a southern gentleman, he grew up in Texas and was raised by a Black father from Oklahoma and a Mexican mother, from Mexico City. His parents actually met in Mexico bc his father lived there for most of his life.

He has always instilled the best values in me. "When finding a person to marry always look at yourself and finding the reason they want you, not the reason you want them." "Be the person you're looking for." "Be respectful and kind even when it hurts."

He never laid a hand on me, never beat me or anything. He used to scream! lol..that's for sure, but never beat me. My mom did that enough for him and her put together.lol. He used to actually tell my mom to calm down when she was mad at us. He was the person we ran to at those times. He took us to the park, no one else did. Ever! He went to parent teacher conferences, my teachers all knew him like they knew the mothers. He was part of the PTA at my sister and mine's schools. He is the smartest man I know. He never watches anything but the history channel and reads everyday, whether its the newspaper or an autobiography. I can litterally go on for days about how awesome my father is. Until this day, he supports me. He tells me all the time "the past will always try to have you look back but if you look back you will never see what's in front of you."

I love you Daddy!! Happy Father's Day!!