What is your favorite father memory?

United States
June 8, 2008 9:33pm CST
I would have to say for me it was when I was little. I am not sure how old I was at the time. Probably 4 because I was still young enough to be daddy's baby, before my sister came along that is. I remember we were in Saginaw Michigan, up there around the dunes. I remember my dad sitting me on his shoulders and walking out into Lake Michigan right up to his chin. I don't have too many good memories of my dad beyond that one. I am sure they are there, but it has been so many years and so much has happened since then. The good stuff sometimes gets buried. My dad passed away a couple of years ago, so this is how I am choosing to remember him for this years Father's Day.
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@anawar (2404)
• United States
9 Jun 08
tanniebabe_ My dad was withdrawn and rarely spoke. It was creepy. One day he took my brother and I to a pond in the woods. He told us to bring our ice skates. He took us to a pond in the woods and it was covered in snow, a bit more than ankle high. I was sure my dad would pack us back into the car. He shocked me by pulling out a shovel from the trunk. He tested the strength of the ice and shoveled off the entire pond_ and it was a big one. He let us skate for hours. If only for that one day, I knew my dad loved me.
• United States
11 Jun 08
That is the hardest thing to do. I want to cry just thinking about almost losing my babygirl. I hope to never know what it is like. That is one of my daily prayers.
• China
10 Jun 08
Yeah,the Fathers' Fay is coming.Anyway,it is a hard question for me to think of the favorite father memory.I don't have a very close relationship with my dad.We seldom talked.Well,maybe the nicest thing is that he peeled an apple for me when I was too little to do it myself.That is the only time in my life he peeled an apple for me.Sounds pitiful,right?I don't know.Each family has skeletons in the closet.Any way, I still love my daddy and he loves me also.
• United States
11 Jun 08
Hey, I only have a precious few myself. My dad was one of those that once he had a new kid, the rest of us ceased to exist. For years he put my stepmom before any of us, so that is how great mine was, but he was my dad and like you we loved each other.
• United States
9 Jun 08
Every so many years, my birthday falls on fathers day. This year it is the day after. When my dad was alive, when my birthday fell on fathers day, we would go out to breakfast. Just the two of us. It use to make my sisters mad but dad didn't care. That was our special day and he did it every time my birthday was on fathers day. I really miss him and our special day together.
• United States
11 Jun 08
Yeah, sibling rivalry is always fun huh? You can't help it when you were born.
@ersmommy1 (12588)
• United States
9 Jun 08
I don't really have any decent dad memories of my father.But I have wonderful ones of my hubby with our daughter. She is 5 now, so by the time she is grown I will have too many to count. Right now,one of my favorite memories of her at 2. My hubby and daughter went to wash the car. It was more play than work. They both came in soaked to the skin.It was a good time.
• United States
9 Jun 08
Yes, washing the car is always a great treat for the kids. What a fun memory.
@dlm6171 (60)
• Trinidad And Tobago
9 Jun 08
I have a lot of childhood memories, but I will be lost to say which one stands out for me. However on my wedding day, while walking up the aisle with my dad.Somehow my dress seemed a little longer than it was orginally. I sort of hugged my dad`s arm so tight he wispered are you sure about getting married today? I guess that action prompt him to ask that. At my reception he said I left home with two children today, I go home with only one!my brother. I started crying during his speech . I understand now when I hear the phrase daddy`s liitle girl,I lost my mom this year, in mar.08. I still have my daddy and this June is going to be hard for me. My mom b/d was June 28 and my son is June 29 he will be 6 yrs.
• United States
9 Jun 08
Wedding day ones are usually the most poignant ones. I don't have that because I didn't marry before my dad passed. And the last year he was too sick to do much.
9 Jun 08
Hmmm ,for me there are many great time in my childhood ... I think maybe because we have grown up and our heart become more recipe ,so our thirst for happyness have already changed ,not simple ... When we were yong ,a simple thing will make us feel happy and unforgetable ... Hmmm ,I still remembered the time when i was about 8 years old ,i made the kite with my father ,and my first little kite ,and when we were flying it ... I think all my face must be full of smile ...
• United States
9 Jun 08
That sounds like fun. Sort of something out of Mary Poppins. lol. Terrific!
@dfollin (24172)
• United States
9 Jun 08
I do not have any.My parents split up when I was one and a half and she would not let me see him or his family or have any contact with them.When I was in my late 30's I found out that he had passed away from cancer 8 years previously.I have seen pictures of us,when I was little,but I was too little,I don't remember.
• United States
9 Jun 08
I am so sorry! It is never right when a parent keeps a kid away from their other parent. Unless there was wrongful doings of course.
@yogeshdhusa (2236)
• India
9 Jun 08
so sweet, I have many memories, my dad passed away when i was in ninth. My dad used to wake me up, calling me "baby wake up" and then i used to wake up other wise i used to shout if someone else comes to wake me up. The company where my father worked was near my house, so i used to go till the company to recive him with a great smile on my face, if some day he was late to come out then i go directly inside the company to ask the security gaurd that where is my father. Then he used to call him to tell that "your daughter is waiting".. i miss him badly.
• United States
9 Jun 08
I am sorry you had to lose him so early in life.
@rrdj71 (696)
• United States
9 Jun 08
I would have to say my trips to upper Manhattan, NY with dad. It started when I was about 6. We would go get a pizza pie and then catch a Broadway show and afterwards some ice cream. Of course my mom and dad were separated and had she known he took me so far she would've flipped. We lived by the Jersey shore so imagine that. She and dad were of course separated and so when he would pick me up he pretended to take me to work with him but instead we both played hookie. I also remember all the Yankees games we went to (by the way GO YANKEES!!) and the one Frank Sinatra concert I went to and I met ol' blue eyes himself in person. I vaguely recall that day I was about 8 or so. It was a BLAST!! I always thought my dad was so cool!!
• United States
9 Jun 08
You dad sounds like the coolest dad on the planet! Seriously! Wow. That is awesome! Shoot, I had to practically pull teeth to get my dad to take me to the mall for my first time when I was 14!
• United States
9 Jun 08
The most fond memory I have of my dad is when he would have to be at work soon and my sisters and I would try to get him to stay by wrestling with him. We'd grab onto his legs and he'd let us pull him to the ground. Then he'd crawl toward the door with us still attached to him. We'd always let go when he said he had to go but he'd play along until then. It was such fun. :D
• United States
9 Jun 08
That sounds like a lot of fun!
@ag6390 (65)
9 Jun 08
the best memorys i have are from when my mum and dad used to take me to thepark when i was younger and play with me, simple i know but being around the age of 6 or younger... it was fun (Y) :)
• United States
9 Jun 08
The simple moments are the best ones. Even better when they happen more than the big ones.