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My slideshow to my Daddy for Thanksgiving 2014
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To my Daddy: Words can never begin to explain everything you are to me. My whole life, my single greatest fear was losing my Daddy. Now that I am faced with that becoming a reality, I find that more than ever, I don’t have the words to say what I really feel, and that is why I sat down one day and started making this list. The list is kind of random (I hope you wouldn’t expect anything other than random from me!) but it is some of the things that I love so much about you. Things I never want to forget. Things that I will miss more than you know. Beyond all of that, though, they are things that have sculpted the way I view you as a father and a parent, and I simply could not have asked for a better Daddy than what I got in you. I love you so much, Daddy! Tiffany
1. How you always wanted to be called Mighty Dado, and we all laughed hysterically when we called you Dado Mouse!
2. The time you were working with me on softball, and I whacked it straight into your shin!
3. The way you used to hop around holding your pinky toe when you stubbed it on the bed frame.
4. Me puking in your mouth as you played the airplane game with me as a baby.
5. The fact that I was the only one of my friends whose parents stayed married to each other.
6. Me making you so mad the big vein in your forehead was bulging!
7. The way you held our family together amidst what had to be the most unbearable pain of your own when Tony died.
8. The way you somehow made me feel like I knew your parents through the stories you told about them.
9. The way you would sit at the table with a pie tin on your head and pretend you were Asian!
12. When we talked you into letting us keep “Muffin” whom we had secretly been feeding for months!
14. Jumping out and scaring you every day when you got home.
15. Pretending you didn’t expect me to scare you every day when you got home.
16. Still loving me after I fattened your lip by jumping up as you tried to kiss my head.
17. Putting me on your shoulders and going down the long hallway towards the mirror and saying, “See the monkey?”
18. You starting to hand me something at the dinner table, jerking it back, and saying. “That’s enough.”
19. (Madison wants me to mention the amazing Cherry Pie you made!)
21. The fact that in spite of having a rather small family, we had all kinds of “family” consisting of people you had a great deal of loyalty to over the years.
23. The fact that you were able to stop in an unfamiliar town and get precise directions to your soon to be wife’s house in Harrisonville.
24. You always ate all of the atrocious concoctions I called recipes as a child and pretended you thought it was delicious.
26. Every time something doesn’t go your way in cards, you say, “Well that’s just peachy!” Or “Isn’t that special!”
27. The way people who drive slower than you (amazing that still exists) are referred to as Amos, Horace, Hortence, Maude, or Gertrude.
29. Singing in your car with you to Buddy Holly, Elvis, or Simon and Garfunkel.
30. How you hold on to the “Oh Shit” handle every time you ride with Granny and seem to be bracing for impact.
31. How you took my girls in as your own in many ways. (This one, I can never thank you enough for)
32. How you always (justifiably) chewed my ass when I screwed up, but made sure I knew you loved me afterwards.
34. Putting “kitty nibbles” between your toes when you fell asleep in your chair so the cats would come lick and bite your toes.
35. Smurfy jumping up on the footrest of your chair, sniffing your feet, and falling over backwards.
36. The way you always hiked your pants up before you got on the floor to see if I had stuffed anything under my bed while cleaning my room.
37. The fact that you were brave enough to watch your granddaughter come into the world!
43. The nicknames: “Daddy’s ol Sleepy Time Girl,” “Princess Foul Bottom,” “Sugar Pie,” and “Pea Picker.”
44. Counting on you to eat the stuff that was too icky for me to eat from my dinner plate.
45. The way you crank up the TV volume when someone is talking through something you want to hear.
46. The fact that you and mom never once had a serious argument in front of your kids.
46. Having the chance to have you give me away at my wedding.
47. My belief through out my life (and to this day) that there is no one tougher than my daddy.
