Erin The Great

Happy Father’s Day! I don’t want to brag but I pretty much have the coolest Dad around. I grew up being ‘Daddy’s Girl’. Well, ‘Daddy’s Girl’ that could play sports, out spit, out belch and out punch most of the boys my age… until High School that is. Yes my dad’s blond haired, brown-eyed little girl grew up basically a boy, but beggars can’t be choosers right?

I’ve learned many things from my father. Like how The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac and Pink Floyd were what God was listening to when he created the PAC-10 on the 6th day. He taught me most of what I know in regards to pranking and outdoor survival. I don’t know how my mother felt about her very impressionable 10-year-old daughter being taught the fundamentals of short-sheeting a bed as well as the proper way to make methyl blue/Ex-Lax brownies, but at least learning how to survive outdoors counteracted that. Thanks to my dad, I’m an absolute pro at both.

Aside from the crazy things I’ve learned from my dad I’d like to offer up a very well deserved Thank You. Father, thank you for helping me to not ever have an inferiority as well as an image complex. You always helped me feel beautiful even when I was thin and gangly. Thank you for treating my mother with love and respect so I would have a basis of comparison so as to not accept anything less in the men I date. Thank you for being a mediator through out my teenage years and helping me learn how to calm down before I go into a situation with ‘guns blazing’. Thank you for never pulling a rifle on any of my dates and showing me the fine art of spilling food on myself any time I eat ANYTHING… I am my father’s daughter, and I’m utterly proud to be so!

Dad, thank you for being so stinking cool and for never asking me to turn down my music as a young adolescent, even if it WAS barely music. To you I am eternally indebted. You’ve been a pillar of strength through some pretty rocky times and I love you! You’re amazing and I couldn’t have asked for a better dad. Happy Father’s Day!