Infant-me, sitting on the wood floor, looks up at my dad, who is sitting on a brown sofa and smiling down to me Here in the United States, it is Father's Day weekend. I did not realize until recently that Father's Day was not officially made a holiday until 1972. 1972! Now, while I realize that many people consider 1972 eons ago, I do not. I'm glad that fathers have a day of recognition now, because they surely deserve acknowledgement. I thought for this week's Ten Things of Thankful post, I would list ten lessons I'm thankful my dad taught me. My dad is a teacher. Not only did he impart his knowledge to countless junior high aged kids throughout his career, he taught--and still teaches--my siblings and me. He is not a preachy teacher; he's a humble man whose lessons I feel like I learned through osmosis. When he would get home from work, we'd all sit down as a family for supper. Often, our phone would ring, and on the other end of the line would be a paren
Living life with a thankful heart
Beautiful photos, Kristi! I did not see it, unfortunately. Thanks for giving me a glimpse of it.
ReplyDeleteLovely photos.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful; we saw it last week...but this week we have these storms rolling in with thunder and lightening. hopefully in another day it should clear up. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI did see it! It was beautiful and you did an amazing job of capturing it!
ReplyDeleteI saw the moon! It was so huge, bold and beautiful! Great pictures! When I look up at that moon, I get a real sense of the awesomeness of God. Beautiful! Tania x
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