Happy Father’s Day

I’m a day late, but I still wanted to talk about how amazing Father’s day was for me yesterday. I am so lucky and so grateful for my father and everything he taught me. He is no where near perfect, but I wouldn’t trade him for any other dad because I couldn’t have made it this far in my life if it wasn’t for him.

To give you a bit of background (and I apologize if I’ve mentioned this before), my Dad was unemployed for a long time until a few years ago when he was finally able to get a job for various oil companies as a doc specialist. We were so grateful for this opportunity, but at the same time it was hard because he was always out of state, sometimes for years at a time.

Recently he was living in Pennsylvania, but a couple weeks ago his contract ended, so he came home. This was both great and unsettling at the same time, because he’s finally home after about 3 years of being away, but now he doesn’t have a job anymore and our income has massively dropped. For now anyway. It took me a while to realize this, but that meant Dad was able to be home for Father’s day. I was so excited! It had been so long and now we all got to be able to celebrate with him together as a family.

Now something I know I haven’t mentioned before is that I have a wonderful opportunity to dog-sit these adorable pair of dachshunds every now and then. What’s more is I get to stay in the house the dogs live in which is so fancy and beautiful and HUGE. I always enjoy this because it also allows me to have a completely quiet place where I can do homework and other responsibilities (yay for laptops!) This weekend I’m dog sitting (I’m doing so while writing this actually) and at first I was concerned. My plans of having Father’s day together as a family was thrown off because this place is 45 minutes away from where I live, and that’s a lot of gas for me to drive every day. I wasn’t sure what I would be able to do, but then my mom and I came up with an idea: we would celebrate Father’s day here at the fancy house. I had already been given permission because the owners want me to enjoy the house and I was free to invite my friends and family as long as nothing got broken/lost (duh). So, I made a large pot of my favorite potato soup recipe, my sister made made-from-scratch mini berry cobblers, and my mom picked up rolls and drinks. We had a family dinner out on the backyard patio, had long discussions, then played an altered game of billiards. All in all it was a fantastic night.

Having my dad home and being able to spend so much time with him made me realize how much I love him and am grateful for him. He may not win the best dad in the world award, but he will always be the best in my book because yes he made mistakes, but he learned from them and moved on. Because of that I will always look up to him. He has an incredible amount of strength that sometimes I don’t think he can see, but I can and I try to remind him as much as I can.

Happy Father’s day everyone. I hope that it was good, and if it wasn’t I hope that today was better for you. Thanks for reading!