10. I worry about my
Mother dying as she is the last link to she and my Daddy as my parents. I'm really just one parent away from being an orphan.
9. Honor your father
and mother. There will come a day when
you don’t “have” to make the drive to your Daddy’s house for Father’s Day.
8. Enjoy every
holiday with your Mother, because one day you won’t have her to make memories with
on holidays.
7. Pictures keep
memories alive. Take as many pics as you
can of your parents. It is a vivid
reminder of the great times you shared as a family after they are gone.
6. Don’t complain
about your parents in front of me. I
would give anything to have one more conversation, dinner, or drive with my Daddy.
5. Losing a parent is
like joining a class of people that you don’t want to belong. How do you “opt out” of the “I lost my Daddy Club”.
4. You can’t explain
it to people who still have their parents.
When you lose your Daddy, you have a hole in your heart that can never
be filled.
3. Life goes on – we call
it “The new normal”. It's far from normal.
2. Holidays are never
the same. You can be determined not to
mourn but it is still never the same.
1. You may rock along
for months, and then one day you just lose it all over again because you realize
that your Daddy is just not coming back.
I miss you every day.
