Joyful Transformation

Happy Birthday Dad!

Today is my daddy’s 74th birthday. He is not the most educated man you will ever meet, but he loves people and he loves to have fun. The strict disciplinarian of my youth disappeared when the grandchildren came along. I have told them several times that I didn’t really know their Grandpa. He was nothing like my Dad.

Some of his favorite sayings;

• Ya’ll come nearly home with us
• Ya’ll come see us, we will show you how poor people live
• All I know you can write on a little piece of paper
• You don’t work, you just sit up there and watch that T.V. all day (computer)
• I am 39 and holding. (when I caught up with him, I told him he had to change)
• Oh you know, it’s ole hickey-doo, he lives down there by what’s his name.
  

Yeah, my Dad’s not perfect. But he loves me and my brothers and all of his grandchildren. More than anyone in my life, he taught me to laugh and have fun. He has never really worried a lot about anything (my mom does enough for everyone) and he always tries to find the funny side of every thing. Happy Birthday Dad, I love you.

# posted by Donna G : 2/01/2005 08:34:00 AM