.: Happy Father's Day!!!!!!!!!

I want to start a little different with this. I want to send a BIG HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to my big brother Michael Francis, I love you!!! He passed in January but he's still here and has been like a father to me and my other brothers since we were little. Also another BIG HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to my younger brother I'm so proud of you bro I love you and I know your family does too! And to my other brother Tony another BIG HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to you too. I know you don't have children of your own YET but what you do in that class room is bigger than you know sometimes.

Yes that was just a start of my blog today!!!! LOL

What it is family???!!!! I want to speak from a very personal place right now. I feel like Father's Day is a very under appreciated holiday. That fact has frustrated and quite honestly pissed me off for a while now. Really I want us to really think about the fact that there is so much thought and preparation that goes into Mother's Day, yet Father's Day is such an afterthought. We are given things that have no real thought behind them just to say we were given something. People will fly across the country to see mothers, but only call for fathers. We are so under appreciated it has made me sick and even depressed me at times. This year is different.

This year, though I still felt that fathers are stil under appreciated as far as worldly appreciation i.e. gifts time and etc... go, I've realized we are appreciated everytime we look at our sons and and realize that we [fathers] are some of their favorite people. We are appreciated when we realize that we sleep and lay alike, everytime we see that they look more like us the older they get. Everytime we hear them ask "Daddy you my best friend?" I love my son and I know he loves me and ther is nothing that can change that. I know now that though in the material we get cheated we know our children love and appreciate us more than we can ever imagine.

I appreciate and LOVE MY SON AND OUR RELATIONSHIP!!!! SO THAT IS WHAT I'M CELEBRATING THIS FATHER'S DAY!!!! Thank you Damon Nicholas for being my son, I LOVE YOU!!!!