big one's b-day
today is my oldest dtr's 25th b-day,
which means i've been a father for half my life now
(more or less).
she showed up on a thursday
i was in korea and didn't find out about her arrival
until the following monday.
i ran all the way across the base
to get to the red cross office
and read the notice that mother 'n' baby were fine.
i came home on leave when she was six months old
and she slept 10 hrs a night for the 10 days i was home
(something she'd never done before and hasn't done since).
got home for good when just shy of her first b-day
and held her up so she could see the moon.
she walked three weeks later.
which means i've been a father for half my life now
(more or less).
she showed up on a thursday
i was in korea and didn't find out about her arrival
until the following monday.
i ran all the way across the base
to get to the red cross office
and read the notice that mother 'n' baby were fine.
i came home on leave when she was six months old
and she slept 10 hrs a night for the 10 days i was home
(something she'd never done before and hasn't done since).
got home for good when just shy of her first b-day
and held her up so she could see the moon.
she walked three weeks later.
posted by stashdauber at 9:59 AM
1 Comments:
nicely said.
am just getting to experience these things firsthand - and it's the best thing ever.
like the wife said to me, bathed in sweat and through radiantly exhausted eyes on the day she was born: "nothing else matters, does it?"
nope.
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