Today would be dads birthday.  Every year he would call and sing Happy Birthday to me... so when his birthday would come a long... I would sing Happy Birthday to Him.  Normally the longest extended version I could come up with and sing it really, really slow... just for him.

I miss you dad!  I love you very much.

Dad was intensely honest and forthright.. I made slushies when I was a kid. I switched the salt and sugar and they were nasty. I gave one to dad to try expecting him to say they were good-but knowing they weren't. Dad made a face and said, "Well, sprout, you won't be a chef." Then he took me to get a slurpee. "They make it so we don't have to." That memory is dad.

Dad was extraordinarily funny. We were driving around town, we see a woman bent over in her yard, rear in the air. "Good time for a beebee gun. Target practice." That memory is dad.

Dad was insanely giving. Waiting in the Wendy's drive through, we see a homeless man with a sign. I said something derogatory that someone else had said once. Dad said, "We don't know what he's been through." Dad bought him a biggie meal and made me walk it to him. That memory is dad.

Dad was the king of empathy. My strongest memory from childhood was when I was crying over some stupid boy to dad. I looked over and he was crying too. I said, "Dad, why are you crying?" He said, "When you hurt. I hurt." That memory is dad.

Love you always.

One of my favorite quotes that dad would say to me after quite a few times of the same mistakes or bad choices...

            "Well, if you keep on doing what you always done, you're always gonna get what you got... and what is that?  -- define insanity Tami.  --- Thank you dad for always having so much faith that I would adventually figure it out.  

Another one...  When I couldn't find something I was looking for...
            "Look with your eyes open dear"  --- also very helpful -- If you know my dad.... that would make you smile.

I sure miss my dad... every Friday on my way to work checking in... Saturdays meals out and scrabble.  Stopping by for prayer and a hug..  all of those little and not so little things.

Your family is in my thoughts and prayers. 

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