My mother sent me a photo the other day that hit me like a ton of bricks. If you don’t know she stays with us some days of the week to watch Crew while I work and Carsen attends classes. My dad usually comes down one day a week to take us to eat and see his favorite little boy. My mom sent me a picture of Crew wearing noise blocker headphones and a pair of hands were holding Crew’s. The hands looks like they belong to an older person and I wondered who they belonged to. I asked her whose hands were those and she replied, “your dad.” I don’t know how to express the feeling I felt. It wasn’t sadness or surprise, it was more of “oh.” My parents are getting older. Realization #124 of that day. It’s something I haven’t really thought about but seeing my dad’s strong hands looking older hit me hard. I am extremely close to my parents. I always have been and I always will be. I have so much fun with my parents and they continue to spoil me rotten! My parents also really love my husband (they’ve done so much for him since he was 14 and he has always treated them as his own!) They have helped us in more ways than I can count and they always put our situations ahead of their own. We spend a lot of time with them and i’m so blessed by that. Looking at those hands and realizing my parents are getting older makes me so glad i’ve always been so close to them. There will come a day when my parents go to our forever home. I hate admitting that and I can’t even think about it, but it’s reality. Becoming a parent myself i’ve realized how not so good or appreciative of a daugher i’ve been. My parent’s are literally the best. Hands down, drop mic, no discussions. They are two of the most selfless people in the world and they love bigger than anyone I know. To think of living without my parents is unimaginable but I know that time will come. I’ve always said that if I can give Crew half the life they have given me, he will be a very blessed boy. My parents deserve to be spoiled back. They have given up so much of themselves for me and my family. It had me thinking, how many of us go through life not giving our parents the one thing they want most, our time? I pray that Crew wants to spend time with us when we grow older. I pray he wants to go on vacations with us and be around us when he has his own family.
So let me tell you about my parents, because they deserve their own blog. Actually they deserve their own show because they are hilarious, but I can’t do that for them. My dad is my hero. When I think of the person who could save this world (Other than God of course).. It’s him. My dad was a paramedic for 27 years. You have no idea how many lives those hands have saved, held, helped, or protected. His eyes have seen more than I care to know. He suffered many injuries during his EMS years and some still give him pains today. With the help of his work team he started a program called Think Child Safety. This program teaches about child safety and injury prevention measures. It was a huge deal in the 90s and reached so many people! I would love to bring that back to life in full force. He was also a respiratory therapist for 39 years and co owned medical supply stores. He actually gave me my first job when I was 12 and he was also the first, and only, person to fire me. HAHA! I got rehired after a few months. Those electric wheelchairs were just too fun! Oh and trash jumping with my brother was a blast as well. My dad taught me the lesson of hard work, but he also spoiled me silly! I am not rotten, but i’m close. ;) I talk about being spoiled in past tense but it has honestly never stopped. I am 100% my dad on the inside. We love and feel deeply. We are also extremely stubborn and not the people to mess with when you make us mad. My daddy is my world and I am forever a daddy’s girl. My mom is a saint ya’ll. I have tried so many times to get her to speak negative about someone and she just doesn’t have it in her. She is also a really easy person to mess with. We love her so much for being a good sport about it! I have no idea what I would do without my mom or the laughs she provides. I am 100% her on the outside and I thank God for giving me her young and pretty looks. She is so beautiful inside and out. I never give her enough credit for the things she does for me or for my little family. She had surgery last year and I had to go a day without talking to her. I hated it!!! It felt miserable. I have never met anyone has caring and gracious as her. She embodies God’s love better than anyone I know. She has been everything from a waitress, to a librarian, to a manage. She has worked so hard in life and continues to work hard helping take care of Crew during the week. She has saved us daycare money for the first year and a half of Crew’s life. We owe her and my dad so much!!! Love your parents, spend time with them, let them annoy you, annoy them, spoil them, and for sure let them spoil you. You were given to them from God. Show them how thankful you are for that.
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