Happy Father's Day

Dad,
Remember when you used to tell me that punishing me hurt you more than it hurt me?
Remember when you told me one day I would thank you for raising me right, and teaching me the value of hard work?

Now’s the time. Thanks Dad.

• Thank you for sacrificing your beloved TransAm and business to keep me healthy.
  
• Thank you for fetching me from the willow tree house when I was too scared to come down on my own.
  
• You took the gruelling job of cleaning out my junky ears when they were infected and painful without complaining.
  
• Thank you for paying for piano lessons even when I rebelliously refused to practice.
  
• For telling Sam and Joe stories and giving me loads of books to devour on my own.
  
• Thanks for enduring my temper tantrum phase with patience (age 6 & 16)
  
• For letting me help you around the house, so I don’t feel inept in my own.
  
• Thanks for keeping me equipped with the latest computer and a electronic vocabulary so that I can hold my own in a conversation with geeks.
  
• For teaching me the value of hard earned money.
  
• For raising me in an environment free from the influence of Hollywood.
  
• Buying me my first paint set and encouraging my silly scrawls.
  
• Coming and changing my first flat tire while I was at work.
  
• Helping me with my entrance essays during that scary college admission year.
  
• Keeping me IN college when my student bills were bigger than my savings.
  
• Thanks for eating all the strange foods I attempted to cook.
  
• For teaching me Christian values and bringing me to church.
  
• Thanks for managing my financial mess while I am overseas.
  
• I always noticed when you were sometimes the only one at my concerts and galleries.
  
• And most of all, thanks for loving me unconditionally, even at my worst.
  

Can’t wait to see you soon!
love,
Angela