I want to dedicate this post to my dad whom I miss terribly.  He passed away two years ago, just a week before Father’s Day. I’m just thankful that I was home then and he at least saw the boys before it happen.  My dad was already  bedridden during those times, I still remember Kendrick gave him bread every morning since it’s the only food that he can eat then, and he laugh at him whenever he make his goofy act.  A co-worker who also lost a father once told me that there is really a big difference if your father is only sick because you  know he’s still there, you can see and feel him, you know that he can hear you when you talk and response on his own little way than when he’s gone. My dad is not a perfect dad but I knew in my heart he tried to be one, and I love him for that.  I want to write more aobut my dad but I’m such a crybaby and I don’t want to cry right now.So without further a do, here’s my entry for today’s Thursday Thirteen.

1. A father is always making his baby into a little woman.  And when she is a woman he turns her back again.  ~Enid Bagnold
2. A father carries pictures where his money used to be.  ~Author Unknown
3. Dad, you’re someone to look up to no matter how tall I’ve grown.  ~Author Unknown
4. Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.  ~Gloria Naylor (Totally!!! )
5. There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.  ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
6. The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!~Author U nknown
7. I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.  ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
8. Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.  ~Author Unknown
9. A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society. — Billy Graham, Christian Evangelist
10. Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! — Lydia M. Child, U.S. Author
11. It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.– Pope John XXIII
12. A father is a banker provided by nature.” — French Proverb
13. Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad. — Anne Geddes