Our lives as parents » Messages http://lifeasparents.com Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:58:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Memories of my Dad… http://lifeasparents.com/2011/08/memories-of-my-dad-2/ http://lifeasparents.com/2011/08/memories-of-my-dad-2/#comments Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:50:36 +0000 admin http://lifeasparents.com/?p=1145 My memory I highlight today comes from a story I touched on in my first post in this series. When I was around nine years old or so my Dad had asked if I wanted to go to the family dairy farm at night to help him milk cows. The dairy farm was literally through the pasture way back behind the house I grew up in. I remember that I went down to the barn multiple times with him at night. To start the night out Dad always drank either foldgers crystals coffee but on special occasion he drank Irish Creme coffee from Barnees. So Dad and I would get in his truck with his coleman coffee mug and we would drive down to the dairy. My duties would be things like letting 25 cows in from the wash lot into the barn or washing the “left behinds” from the cows out of the barn. I had to let 25 cows in because at the time we had a 50 cow flat barn, 25 cows could stand on each side. The 25 cows would come in and be washed again, then milkers would dry their udders and then hang the machine on them for milking. This process was mainly done by two milkers and I think one feed person. The barn was setup in a way in which when the cows entered the stantions they would have feed in front of them. So as 25 cows left the feed person would come in with the feed cart and start putting fresh feed out in front of where the cows head would be located. You would lay out 25 feed piles and then come back and add water to the mix. This behind the scenes description sets up my story now. So we had a great many various folks work at the dairy. The one I think of here was “flash”. I honestly don’t remember her real name but she worked at the dairy. She got the nickname flash because she was amazingly fast at the feed dispensing job. She could pile up 25 piles of feed and then add water faster than anyone before in that job. Dad would always give me a hard time when I was up for the job because I was much slower than flash. This was all in jest because in the end Dad was never a mean hearted or cruel person. He always had a joke in most situations. I don’t remember what happend to flash, she may have moved out of town are gone off to another dairy. This was the way with most dairy help, you rarely got someone that you could hold on to for a long time.

~Life as Dad

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I want you to know that giving and getting are forces of the universe.  You are merely a conduit of that energy.  If you give as much as you get, the universe will help keep your life in balance.  Too much of one or the other will block the universe’s energy rendering your life unbalanced.

Love,

Mom

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I want you to know that your WANTS are powerful wishes. You almost always get what you want, but sometimes not in the way you envision, so be very clear and precise about what you WANT.

I love you,

Mom

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I want you to know that your WANTS guide your life and the lives of those around you.

I love you and I want your life to be filled with joy and happiness. That goal guides everything I do for you.

~Mom

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I want you to know that there are people in the world and sometimes in your own family that are not always nice. Sometimes they don’t mean to be but they don’t know how to change.  You must never let them affect how you want to live your life.

I want you to know that you can always change who you want to be.  It is your choice and only you can make it.

I love you,

Mom

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I want you to know that we have tried to protect you from every harm, but we are only human and do make mistakes.  Mistakes are those lovely things that enrich our lives and allow us to grow.

~Life as Mom

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I want you to know everything in your room is yours to keep.  Your grandmother bought you a bed to last a lifetime.  Your father gave you his childhood furniture. I gave you your books. We hope you treasure these items as we have, but remember they are just items. The real value is in the love bestowed on you.

Love,

Mom

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I want you to know that I love your face.  I could look at your face for hours and never get bored.

~Mom

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I want you to know I love you so, so much. I never knew this kind of love could exist.

~Mom

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