Father's Day 2013

It is truly a gift being a father.Perhaps it is easier to see that after all one's kids are grown.You think your active days of parenting will never end and you blink and your last child is graduating high school.There are things I would have done differently.Less emphasis on sports more on music and art.I would have taken more vacations ,built more sand castles,and showed the kids more pictures of their grand daddy who they never got to meet.I'd say a prayer with them every day and we would memorize Bible verses together because you just never know when one might come in handy.Aside from any regrets I may have I won the lottery with my kids.They are all everything I could have dreamed them to be and more. I wouldn't have been a father without Jolene. She is everything one would want in a Mom ,which makes being a father so much easier.In the final talley we all would change things we would have done and sometimes in spite of or because of what we do things turn out all right.My kids and grand kids have given me the chance to love and experience love in return and it just doesn't get any better than that