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Happy Anniversary to my beautiful parenatal units. Today would have been their golden day. Needless to say, my dad is a bit blue, but grateful for all the wonderful years they had together. I reminded him that today is also his “daughterversary” as 50 years ago, he got me in the deal! So I guess it makes it my “dadiversary” too! 🤣🤣🤣#happyanniversary #loveneverdies #daughterversary #dadiversary #family #golden #50th
Today I celebrate my #Dadiversary with the #Bratz so we figured we'd recreate a photo of our first time to #BuschGardens 7 years difference in the pic and 8 years with me. Time truly does fly. #lovethem #thanks #stepdad #thegooddadclub #goodtimes #daughters #fun (at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay)
Words from Julie Billings on 11.05.2013
I've been trying to think of a specific memory all day and all I keep remembering is his laugh. He had such a great laugh that was so unique to him. Something else that hit me when I was thinking of his laugh is once he got going he could make my Dad laugh like no one else. Dad had a laugh that only his brother could bring out in him and I haven't heard it since.
11.05.2013
"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It is the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared." -Lois Lowry, The Giver.
AD shared the above Lois Lowry quote with the family, and invited everyone to share their memories of MRH on the anniversary of his death. When I first started to think about what memory I would share, I had a difficult time thinking of a discrete story. Instead, I was easily able to think of all of the lessons I learned from my Dad and how I learned them.
It was an exercise that ultimately ended in me remembering a nostalgic timeline of memories, but for the sake of this post, here are a few MRH rules and lessons:
1) If you like a band or musician for 10 or more years, that means they actually make good music. They're not just a one-hit-wonder, thus you can play their music in Dad's red truck.
2) If you're nervous, it's a good thing. It means that you're doing something new, and if you're doing something new it means you're growing as a person.
3) Ikea furniture will only last you through one move, but Mr. Hudon, Woodworker furniture will last a lifetime.
4) The only coffee worth drinking is black coffee.
5) You can do anything, you just need to decide what you want to do and put your mind to it.
6) There's enough time to say, "I love you more."
7) Always go in for the hug.
Hudon Strong
Uncle Michael
Good Timber by Douglas Malloch
The tree that never had to fight
For sun and sky and air and light, But stood out in the open plain And always got its share of rain, Never became a forest king But lived and died a scrubby thing.
The man who never had to toil To gain and farm his patch of soil, Who never had to win his share Of sun and sky and light and air, Never became a manly man But lived and died as he began.
Good timber does not grow with ease: The stronger wind, the stronger trees; The further sky, the greater length; The more the storm, the more the strength. By sun and cold, by rain and snow, In trees and men good timbers grow.
Where thickest lies the forest growth, We find the patriarchs of both. And they hold counsel with the stars Whose broken branches show the scars Of many winds and much of strife. This is the common law of life.
