New Week...new vibe...let's hope!
Ok, Sunday is Father's Day. This thread is all about DADDY!
Tell us what you want us to know about him...
How you gonna do THIS Father's Day 2005?
I'll go first:
My daddy is the best. He and I are tight. We even have matching Navigators. We cool like that.
My dad is retired with a job cause he loves people. He is real active, travels, landscapes, builds stuff, loves music, me and all his friends and family!
Growing up he never laid a hand on us kids. He would talk and make us think about the things we did. Dad is quiet. When he speaks he has something significant to say. Dad and mom(not her week) took us everywhere. We had a real cool life. While dad was mad rich (to us) we never knew it as kids. Again, dad was quiet, fun, classy, respected and focused. We were not greedy kids so if we asked for something we got it.
Almost lost him when we were kids. He was going to the store to get mom something she needed for Thanksgiving dinner. Some lady accidentally hit his car and he got out to console her cause she was sayin her husband was gonna be mad. She hit my dads Mark 4, another lincoln car. While out of his car a **** man hit my dad throwin him into the next block...that was a bad night and early morning for us kids...
On Sunday me, hubby and son will take him to one of the Jazz clubs he likes. My other brothers and sisters do the breakfast thing. We do the evening part. He is truly the man who has everything so we don't do gifts as he insists. He always lets the grandson "hold" something for school if his grades are right. This year...they right!
Your turn...
I have an awesome dad... It didnt start out that way though, because my parents divorced when I was 3, so I only got to visit and see him. Everytime I went I wanted to be over there more and more, and I ended up, at the age of 13, deciding to live with him. He taught me how to be a man, how to fish and alot of other things, while making me stronger and wiser. He tapped into the spiritual side of me and we went to church every Sunday to the point where I wanted to go and looked forward to going. He's the kind of guy that owns up to his responsibilities and even though he started out rough, he came back around and I attribute who I am to God and him.
He used to teach at the school I graduated from. All of the kids that had him could have called him dad; alot of the young men my own age looked up to him that way. Even though hed be teaching, hed always get everyones minds going and challenge them further than they had been. He's still like that today, and when people meet him and see me they know that Im lucky to have him as a parent. I think he sees alot of himself in me too, and is proud of me through all of my falls and slip ups.
I just dont know what to get him though...lol...probably an **** **** tie that he'll laugh at. - Me
Wisdom Tree...
Thanks for contributing to the thread on Dads. You are the first male!
Thanks to everyone else who shared.
Giving this thread a big push up. Only a few more days to Father's Day.
Keep sharing...
my dad and i have a great relationship... i really enjoy rollin up and down I-85 to spend time with him and my mom... he has been there for me when i was down, he's willing to listen to what i have to say, and not jump to conclusions... back in HS, i always wished that he'd shut up and leave me alone since he told me what to do all the time, but now after 3 years of college, i realize that he was always lookin out for my best interest... many say i do look like him, and i have grown to carry myself in the same manner as him, just like he did with my grandfather.... i do know one thing, i hope i can be 1/4 of the father to my kids as he was to me and my sister...
my dad is great, one of those "raised in the streets" but is livin comfortably now, done changed his way of life.... i love him for that... the mixture between my parents gave me the best overall and most well rounded upbringing....
i can have a great convo with him, we can talk about stocks and futures then switch it into what's going on this weekend in East St. Louis... as far as clubs go, lol... I LOVE HIM!!!
as far as father's day goes, i dunno what he will get he hates for me to spend on him, since things are a little tight, but i dunno, i thought abuot sending my mom and dad to the spa and making it Parent's Day cuz i gotta hook up there and i didn't have money to get my mom anything for her day....
I LOVE MY DADDY
He is a comedian
He is so resourceful and frugal that it is hilarious
I look like him (a lil darker complexion though)
He is the most off the wall in his family (everybody else is bougie)
He loves his mommy
He loves my mommy
He gets along with everybody!
He loves ME!
Ehh...my dad is straight. We don't talk a lot and we're not very close but I know he's there for me. The funny thing about him is whenever I ask for something I need(I never really ask him for things I simply want) he whines and says he'll think about it, etc. BUT....he ALWAYS comes through!! :lol: :lol: I be like why didn't you just get me what I needed w/o the dramatics. 8)
Peace&Blessings....
My Daddy is soo friggin cool!!!
Really he is (in my eyes), he's funny, sweet, and caring. I've always been his Little Girl. So naturally I have him wrapped. Most of the time he gives me what I want(within reason). He's really good to my mommy, whatever my mommy wants or needs, he provides it for her. He's a great daddy. I can remember growing up he used to take me and my brother to musems and to history centers. Most kids only did stuff like that on field trips. AND the coolest part about my Daddy is that He's a Fireman!!! His truck is really cool, although his co-workers are ****...Oh yeah, we have the BEST PILLOW FIGHTS EVER!!! I mean flippin over the sofa, putting each other in head locks... I'm gonna miss my Daddy!!!!
I love my daddy. He will always have my respect because he always does what he has to do to make things work for my family. My mom got pregnant with my brother their senior year of highschool and my dad had a football scholarship to UT-Knoxville (anyone that knows sports, knows that's pretty big). She pushed him to go, but she gave labor in DEC. and he came back the next semester, got a job and took care of them. I came along 4 years later and he joined thee military after he and my mom got married and moved us to Texas where my sis came 3 years after me. My dad has done everything so that we can live comfortably (owned a business, works for the Nashville Fire Dept., Real Estate, drove trucks and usually works a temp job around Cristmas (I have a sister who won't put anything on unless its Gucci, Ecko, Lady Enyce. etc. and a brother who still can't fully support himself at 24). He has always believed in me and I am currently the only one out of the fam in college (my dad went back to get his Bachelor's in '99) and on track. He's my #1 fan. I LOVE YOU DADDY!!! :smt055
^^^ cosigns :???:
My father acted as a **** donator and left my mom when she was two months pregnant :o ... I've never met him so my fathers day award goes to my mom who has always acted as a father and a mother to me . I've never liked fathers day. I've never celebrated it... and I probably won't until I have children and we celebrate it for my husband one day. (not married yet, hell not even in a relationship so thats a long time from now,) but yeah happy fathers day to all the dad's that stepped up and took care of their responsibilities. To the other fathers.......hmmmm.... I'm not even gonna say :x :x
I'm gonna miss my Daddy!!!!
