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Dad Did It Anyway
I finally found something REAL to be grateful for…
I am usually a pretty happy person. I love people. I love trees. I love long hikes, books, flowers, and birds. I love food and clouds and baby’s laughter.
However, lately, the things I love haven’t cut it. They haven’t been enough to get me through to arrive in my happy place. Sure, I am still cordial and kind to people. Sure, I still love my kids. And yes, there are good moments of every day.
But, these past months have been the most difficult of my life in some ways. I have had to come to terms with moving off of my farm, the land I raised my four children on, and into town…a town that I never wanted to live in. Like… ever.
Coming to terms with that meant that during the many sleepless nights, I spent a lot of energy and time finding things to be grateful for. Today, I realized that most of them were a real stretch. They were simply the sour lemonade made from the lemons of my life.
However, today, I found something to really be genuinely grateful for. It is perhaps the greatest blessing of the past 21 years of my life. And it is this:
My father
My father cosigned a loan, a loan that had no down-payment, in order for me to have a home to raise my (almost) two children in. It was 21 years ago in a few…
