Is today a holiday? ….Nope it’s Dad’s Birthday…..05/07/09

Is today a holiday? ….Nope it’s Dad’s Birthday…..05/07/09

As I was getting ready this morning…it felt like a special day…seemed like a holiday…I was going to be making dinner for the family…I was going to buy a gift…and I even found myself wanting to mention this “special” day as I was typing an email….i made a phone call and almost mentioned it again….then I sat back and kind of laughed at myself…(thinking this is what Frank is talking about when he pokes fun at me about my dad)…..what am I talking about…well in my mind it seemed today should be a day reserved for observance….of a very special man…MY DAD! Well, yes it is his Birthday of coarse…and here I thought everyone else was aware…???

My whole life I have felt like a silly little daddy’s girl…I followed him around everywhere as I was growing up…and even as I got older…I continued to follow him everywhere (by wanting to imitate him)…I finally realized (yes it took awhile) I am my own person…with my own thoughts…and very happy to be embracing my own life….and now, though I can see our differences and appreciate them…I am so thankful for our likenesses….

I don’t know why…but I always wanted to be most like him…I suppose it is admiration….I would have had my feeling hurt so badly…if one of my siblings would have been more closely compared to him than I…after all I was the daddy’s girl….(not realizing until later, he made us all feel like daddy’s little girl or daddy’s boy)

Well, after growing up and realizing that it is a wonderful thing to have distinction… I now in retrospect can fully see that each one of my “siblings” has some very dominant traits from my dad…
I think my sister has his “stubborn” nature…a trait that is both a blessing and a curse…but one that I do wish I could have inherited in a way…they are hardcore once they have made up there mind about something…and if they say they are going to do it…man watch out…because it will be done(well it eventually gets done with my dad) ….my brother…I think very much so has some mannerisms much like pops…sometimes you see him in a glimpse or hear him talk and you’re like “whoa…izzy, stop being dad”, also I believe my brother is very similar in his personality…an “on his terms” kinda guy….he might feel like making you laugh or he might just feel like sitting back and thinking about something (something probably over my head, like the chemical makeup of kryptonite…or how to make an electrical current observable in every state….(hehe maybe thats stuff I think about and I’m smart like dad too..hahaha) well anyway…the traits I got from my dad…ill leave to someone else’s observance…but I like to think they are distinguishable ….I know for sure we all got Dad’s temper…and well that isn’t so pretty ..but I promise we come by it honestly…
Well I thought to myself…here it is almost mother’s day I’m writing an op-ed on my dad…(my mom would say…sounds about right..haha) Although I know from the bottom of my heart that part of the reason I think my dad is so wonderful…is because he has been madly in love with my mom always -and in truth don’t believe any of us kids would have had the kind of relationship we do with him, if it wasn’t for the happiness he found with my mom….

Well …since this not a national holiday…and for that I actually glad (I don’t want to have to share my dad with everyone!) I do want to take a minute and express how thankful I am to GOD…for this day…my Dad’s Birthday!!!!!