Happy Birthday Dad!

This man is 86 years old today.
(with Scott and Heidi in 1965)
I have great love and respect for this man.
While we are young do we ever really know our parents as people?
Growing up he was always working. He'd come home at 5:30, eat his dinner, then drop Alka Seltzer in his cup of water and sip it while reading the evening paper. My Mom would often tell me she thought he had a headache.
Then it was back again out the door selling more insurance until about 9pm. After all, he had 10 people to support.
And never did I think much about it at the time.
For the past several years Dad has been in a wheel chair. This man who once broke the world's record in his age division for the 24 hour race. This man who ran 37 marathons....17 of them in Boston.
Yet now the days must be long and painful for him but he never mentions that.
I believe as a little boy, my Dad would have been like this toddler my mom wrote about in 1994. That was the year Mom and Dad served in the church Nursery…
(with Scott and Heidi in 1965)
I have great love and respect for this man.
While we are young do we ever really know our parents as people?
Growing up he was always working. He'd come home at 5:30, eat his dinner, then drop Alka Seltzer in his cup of water and sip it while reading the evening paper. My Mom would often tell me she thought he had a headache.
Then it was back again out the door selling more insurance until about 9pm. After all, he had 10 people to support.
And never did I think much about it at the time.
For the past several years Dad has been in a wheel chair. This man who once broke the world's record in his age division for the 24 hour race. This man who ran 37 marathons....17 of them in Boston.
Yet now the days must be long and painful for him but he never mentions that.
I believe as a little boy, my Dad would have been like this toddler my mom wrote about in 1994. That was the year Mom and Dad served in the church Nursery…