If I didn't love my foster dad, dac so much it'd be much easier stating that I abhore father's day...my dad is gone, my father in law-while nice and funny with his one liners that he mumbles if your close enough to hear them and catch them---I'm upset he doesn't stand up for himself and me--I mean, he was in Vietnam for gosh darn sakes!, and then there's the thing that has bragged about being a perm donor to at least 2 women so far that I know of and needs to get a reality check that he's a mentally unstable person and it's just not something to brag about and he WRECKED every holiday for me and he would rant and rave the night before mother's day and all i wanted to do was go to bed and not hear anymore about how it's all a conspiracy by the card companies and jewelry and flower shops...to get your money....and he would be MADDER than a bull seein red and I would just want to sleep...make him go away...I get it...ok, so I won't expect anything from you...not a kiss or hug or a Happy Mother's day nor any other special recognition...ok, I get it...but if I want to sit down and make a Mommy's day card with my little girls out of construction paper...just let me have that moment with my girls...don't come around making faces and grimaces and acting like we're so stupid....
And if I make the attempt to do a little something for you on father's day with the limited budget we have...don't scoff when your little girls are so excited to hand you thier home made cards, box of crunch and munch, and foot pumice. Just be happy for once...can't you? Acknoweldge your small little girls who are excited about this moment of giving and hug and kiss them and don't cut me down in front of them about the gifts you recieved...please? For once?
.....I had the girls call him today to tell them Happy you know what day. He thanked me and said that was really nice. ew...gag. So I just push on with day to day life...picking up the peices and the crap at the old house that he left behind and now me and my 74 year old mom are left with dealing with...and why? So the house looks fairly decent so we can get a good price on it because even though I have to divide the proceeds in half...I need all that I can get...so the better the house looks...the better it could sell...the better it leaves me and my girls for getting by in this new stage of life.
How do I feel about Father's day? Rather jaded. eh, if my dad was alive...I could be watchin him get tanked and burnin our food on the grill as I kept an eye on the girls hoping thier granddad wasn't showing them how to run power tools while he was tanked, nor wanting to take them for a spin in his Triumph while he was tanked, nor on the riding mower for that matter while he was tanked and helping mom in the kitchen and setting the porch table for dinner so he could open my buffalo shaped cutting board and special bbq sauce present and give us girls all sloppy juicy smellin like gin and whiskery kisses. oooh those were the days....