Thread: sappy dad stuff

I am sure that you are aware that the phone calls were in no way worries about your parenting skills. Your dear woman has her heart strings pulled in different directions, and that is a difficult place to be in. A mom's place is to be with her children and to take care of their needs. It does not matter knowing that they are in someone else's capable hands; it is not their own. She is also worried about her father and possibly grieving for future loss if things are not looking good. Taking care of the business aspect is a responsibility. She misses you being gone from you.

I remember an episode of Oprah years ago with the discussion of the role of the father in a family. The gist of it was if the father functioned as a parent or a babysitter. The distinction was hard to make and determined by the child. As a parent, the father would invest more time and do so willingly. The parent had a positive attitude as an equal and a part of a team. A baby sitter would reluctantly do something upon request. A baby sitter would pick and choose. You get the idea.

We all know where you fall, Mark. :-) You are a keeper.

I am sorry to hear about your father-in-law. I hope that your wife will not have to face too much stress in seeing to things.

Thank you for sharing your son's story and his letter. Kids are so sweet. I miss mine being so small at times.

That's so sweet, Mark.

I know your wife will treasure that letter the rest of her life.

You just had to make an old guy cry first thing in the morning didn't you. Well, pick the kid up and give him a hug for me too.....

sniff ....

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Let me be the first to say....awww.

He is a good kid. He knows mom is pretty upset and grand dad is really sick. He has asked a lot of questions about death lately. Big questions for a little guy.

All of my districts fall sports teams made it to state so they called off school for today. We do that. We will keep school going when the roads are icy and no one should be on them, but go to state and school gets canceled. We had a big day planned today. The grocery store is an hour away so we were going to eat at cracker barrel, his favorite place to eat pancakes, get our hair cut, buy tires, play at the big playground, grocery shop come home, eat pizza and watch Surfs Up. Poor guy got a head ache on our way into town and....gasp....turned down pancakes and playing at the playground. Everything else got scrapped too, except the haircuts and shopping. We did those after sitting in the walmart parking lot waiting for the children's Tylenol to kick in. We got Sonic on our way out..yuck. It is what he wanted though, and after the rough morning I couldn't say no.

The pizza and movie were a hit.

Tomorrow we have to clean. and then we will come up with something to do.

Mom won't be home until Tuesday at the earliest and he took that pretty hard.