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Inspired.By.Love
May 16, 2010

Me & Dad

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This Is Probably The Hardest LO I've Ever Done.. *Whew* You Try Finishing A LO That Is Not Only Emotional But Complicated In One Day *lol*

-This Is For AGC Weekly List Challenge
*10 Buttons, 9 Stitches, 8 Brads, 7 Flowers, 6 Stickers, 5 Papers, 4 Rub Ons, 3 Coloration (White/Brown/Blue), 2 Photos, 1 Journaling Block..With No More & No Less.. I'm SO Surprised I Did It & I Actually Like The Outcome!

Also For May Week 2 Monthly Sketch Challenge & A Few AGC Daily's.

~Hidden Journaling:
I'm opening this piece of journaling with a statement not intended to offend anyone, just something to let it be known what my own personal position is. “Any man can biologically become a father but it takes a special kind of man to actually be a dad”. I needed to say this first because this layout is about me and MY dad….the man who really raised me & made me his daughter. When I was 7 years old my mother married Basil (pictured). Even though at this time my biological father would still make an appearance now and then Basil really became the Dad to my brother and I. Five years later he even made the loving decision to adopt us. Since at this time I was young and, if you can believe it, rebellious, even with Basil doing everything a Dad could do and then some I still referred to him as Basil. Then in 2005 I learned that my mother and Basil were getting a divorce. At this time I was already living about five hours away from them in Joplin, MO. With the distance I had only been talking to them occasionally anyways but when I heard this news something hit me hard in the heart. All kinds of memories and emotions flooded through my body, filling my heart and mind with every instance that Basil had proved himself as a Dad again and again, that his fatherly love for me was real. He really had become my Dad! I immediately made it a priority to re-connect with him and when we first spoke I called him Dad…he had earned that right with every year of loving me even when I didn't appreciate him. These photos are from when my Dad came to visit David and I in Joplin, a trip he made several times himself, while we made almost monthly trips to Chillicothe to see him and my brother before we moved to Ohio. The move has obviously interfered with our ability to spend physical time with him but thank God for cell phones and the Internet! And thank God for putting a man worthy to be called Dad into my life. I Love You Dad!

Close Up Of Hidden Journaling:
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