memories of my dad

Hi all,

I am feeling alittle blue latly , around this time of year I always think about my dad and how I miss him – he passed away in 2003 and I often think about him not being here anymore .

when I was growing up we went through alot of physical and emotional problems but we aslo had alot of good times together , I do not miss the bad things in our life but I do have alot of good memories of things we did together especially when I was 19 because we were both getting help for our drinking problems and in doing so we built a really close bond between us and we had a closer relationship than any other time in our lives .

Here are some of our happier memories together – I remember , the bike rides we took to castle island , s point (where we would have coffee and watch boats )around wampatuck state park(an old navy base that was turned into a state park)and the bike trip when we went through 3 towns in cape cod Mass .

camping trips in Canada , Mass , upper state Newyork and other states while on vacation .

I remember giong to castle island alot and watching ships come in and out of Boston harbor especially when he surprised me by taking me to see a us aircraft carrier come in to Boston harbor .

here are some memories from trips we went on – seeing someone get rescued from Niagra falls , the time we had to out run a severe thunderstorm when we were deep in the okeefenokee swamp in Florida , when we got to the gulf of mexico and he jumped out of car and ran and dove inot the water (he always wanted to swim in the gulf)going to races and the Fathers day motorcycle rallys in Laconia New Hampshire ,on fathers day weekend ,going to Sault st marie Mi .

I remember times we went out to dinner where he would do somthing funny just to embarrass my mom and the time when my parents first met my wife and we went to dinner – my dad could tell my wife was nervouse so he put fries up his nose to make her laugh and then he almost backed his car into a lake joking around , various times we watched tv together – we would play along with tv game shows and had fun , I remember when my mom and dad came to Mi for Andrea and my wedding and he got my groomsmen to put just married all over our car (my wife tried to take the just married off the tires on our way to our honeymoon it was very funny and she managed to get it all off )

I have many more good memories but there are too many to write here but there is one memory that will always be with me forever , a month before I moved from Mi from Mass he told me how proud he was of me for becomming a responsable man – it made me cry to hear him say everything cause it was the first time in all my life that he ever said he was proud of me when I grew up hearing him say alot of negative stuff to me for a long time .

when we went through our bad times I remember wishing him gone and now that he has been gone I wish he was still alive –  , before he passed away my dad joked with me and my brother saying both of you have girls when are one of you going to have a boy , 2 years after he passed away my wife had my son Rj and my brothers wife is expectin a boy this January , I wish my dad could have been here to meet his two grandsons .

I have always heard a saying that you don’t know what you miss till it’s gone is so true cause I miss my dad alot !!