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My Mothers : My Favorite Memories Of My Father

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I only got to spend 13 years, with my father, and in that time he made a huge impact on my life. My parents were, both very good people, and were taken from this Earth too soon. My mother passed in 2012, when I was 10, from breast cancer. My father passed in 2014, when I was 13, from a heart attack. They both made a huge impact on life, but I would like to focus on my father. He was 52 when he passed, and was a single father. He was a very humorous man, but was serious, when the time called for it. He enjoyed movies and cooking. He loved to share his favorite things with me, and my sisters. These three stories are three of my favorite memories, I shared with my Father. My father was there for me in my sadness. It was Mother’s day, a couple years after my mother had passed, and it was a very hard day. Our aunts and uncles came over to spend time together. I saw my cousins with their mothers and I felt an emptiness inside. Later that night, after everyone had left, I went to talk to my father. I walked into his room, and immediately broke down into tears. I then told my father what I was feeling and he comforted me. He said, “I feel the same way, ya know? It’s hard seeing the other guys with their wives. You are not alone.” Then he asked me if I wanted to watch one of his favorite movies. The movie is called Black Hawk Down and it’s rated R, which isn’t something he let me do often. We watched the movie and had fun together, and I still watch that movie on his birthday every year. My father loved the outdoors. When I was in 6th grade we lived in an apartment in Stow, which meant it didn’t have a yard. My father was rather spontaneous and loved nature. One Sunday after church he had an idea, and said to my sisters and me, “Let’s go on a picnic!” We all liked the idea, so we went to Giant Eagle and got our food, and got ready to go to the park. The thing my father didn’t know is that it was going to rain hard that afternoon. Once we loaded the car, it started to pour. We took all the stuff inside, and were pretty disappointed. Then my father said, “Well, let's just have the picnic here.” We laid down a blanket, got our food out of the cooler, turned on The Office and had bottles of coke. We didn’t need a park

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