Thoughts on Father's Day
I wanted to honor my husband today by writing about him. If you don't know him well you just see a quiet guy and maybe you wonder what he's thinking. If you don't know him, you won't know that he actually is very funny and when he is serious, speaks volumes of wisdom. You wouldn't know that he married his complete opposite and is a fantastic and amazing husband. By just looking at him, you wouldn't know, that he is a father also. Emerie made him a father. Even though he only could feel her through my skin, even though he could only watch as she was wheeled away to the NICU, he loved her with a fathers heart. That is something no one could know by just looking at him. He didn't get to swaddle her or change her diaper, or watch her grow, or teach her how to walk, but his love just grows and grows. His fatherhood looks different than the typical dad. Instead of physically doing things, he constantly talks about his lovely daughter and keeps her memory aliv...