My Dad

My father is a beautiful, loving man. I consider myself deeply blessed as I constantly find more of his features within in myself. In fact, I have received almost all of my dominant traits from my father. From our calm, gentle spirits to our love of history, music, and literature, I'm my father's daughter through and through.

As a kid I always felt especially close to my dad as we are the only blonde haired, blue eyed members of our family and we would play games together: Blondes vs. Browns. It never mattered who won the games, what mattered was I got to be on dad's team all by myself while both of my brunette sisters had to share our mom.

Today is my dad's birthday. It's a day to celebrate his birth, his life, and his never failing love. Today I celebrate the look in his eye when my sisters and I make him proud and the sound of his laugh when my mom's around. We are a blessed family to spend so much of our time together in tears of joy, laughing and loving.

Thank you Dad for always leading by example, for loving deeply, and for laughing often.

Happy birthday!