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Dear Holly: Your Father’s Day Card You Made For Me

7 years, 2 months.

Dear Holly,

Leading up to Father’s Day last week, I found a little surprise in my notebook for work: “I love you, Daddy.”

So it was no surprise to when it actually was Father’s Day, you gave me a special homemade card that you had worked on all week.

You are wired like I am:

When it comes to the 5 Love Languages, Words of Affirmation is at the top!

Something that makes it so easy to appreciate you and relate to is that you make a point to tell your family how much they mean to you!

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Holly: You Helped Mommy Repaint Our Backyard Sign

7 years, 2 months.

Dear Holly,

We have always talked as a family about the idea of buying one of those giant metal chickens for our backyard. This past weekend, we settled for two lifesize metal chickens instead.

After we set them up in the backyard, Mommy decided our sign that hanging up on the fence needed to be repainted, since the words had completed faded. They originally read, “This is My Happy Place.”

Our backyard has now had a little makeover. We can enjoy it for about another week… until the mosquitoes and humidity make it too miserable to be outside in Tennessee for the rest of the summer.

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Jack: What “Homeschool Summer School” Looks Like

12 and a half years.

Dear Jack,

Mommy joked with you this week, “What if we started homeschooling you?”

You immediately replied, “No! Then I couldn’t be around any people.”

However, during the summer, I suppose things do resemble the concept of homeschool a little bit.

We are paying you and your sister a “reading allowance” this summer, to help encourage you both to use your brains on books… and it’s totally working.

You always self-elect some “P.E.” time right before lunch, as you go on a bike ride through surrounding neighborhoods.

And then usually after lunch, you join me at the kitchen table; which also serves as my “office” and your “shop” for rebuilding cars.

That’s pretty much what the next two months are going to look like.

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Jack: You are Our Family’s Pool Manager

12 and a half years.

Dear Jack,

Our new pool arrived this past weekend. It was so big, we had to make a trip to Lowe’s to buy an shop vac just to inflate it.

You and I worked in the garage Sunday afternoon to inflate not only the pool, but also the new floaties to go along with our pool.

I watched you as you meticulously staged the pool on our back deck.

You proudly took on the role of pool manager; as you are responsible for refilling the pool with water, as well as keeping it covered when not in use.

This was a great decision for the summer. Since I work from our kitchen table, which faces the back deck, I can be within 15 feet of you and your sister as you play.

Not to menton, the two of you have even been using the area as a fun new spot to eat lunch!

(Even if you don’t look like you’re having as much fun as your sister during lunch!)

 

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Holly: Your Shorter Haircut for the Summer

7 years, 2 months.

Dear Holly,

I was so happy to see you walk through the door as Mommy brought you back from getting your hair cut with her at the salon.

She had mentioned to me that you may want to get your hair cut shorter for the summer.

You got several inches taken off- and it looks so good!

Not to mention, when I dry and brush your hair each night after I give you your bath, it’s a lot less work; now that it doesn’t get tangled up as easy.

I liked your long hair before, but I like your shorter hair even more!

 

Love,

Daddy