It was a little bittersweet for me because the verses state how, "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her....." I know Mike definitely did that for me. Pastor said the most important thing to being a good father and making a marriage work was to love your wife and Mike definitely did that. I look back at our marriage and think Mike was the better partner at loving, caring and doing the little things for me than I did for him.
When Pastor read Ephesians 6:4, "Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger...." I just sat there and didn't look at Dad or anything. He leaned over to me and pointed out that part of the verse and kind of chuckled - we'd been having some issues with that since he'd moved in June 1st - but we had had a good chat about those issue last night.
As we left, all the men got a packet of super glue which Dad was pretty tickled to get. I wondered if the men would get anything for Father's Day since the ladies all received an herb starter garden kit and a petunia bloom. DeVon who was handing out the super glue made me chuckle. I was introducing her to Dad (like I did to everyone at church) and she said something to the effect that she knew immediately that he was my father without having to be introduced. When I was a little kid I could have one adult tell me I looked exactly like my mother and the very next adult tell me I looked exactly like my father - guess through the years with both of us aging the family "look" is still there :)
So I was very lucky - my dad was a good father who raised me up well and my husband was a good husband who loved me like the Bible commanded.
After church Dad wanted to take me to dinner and I suggested Culver's thinking he'd eaten there before - I was wrong - it was a new experience for him and I got a strawberry sundae out of the deal as dessert.
I found one picture of the fire truck spraying water at Summer Splash on our church's Facebook page. The fire truck is to the left of the shed and you can see the beginning of the arc of water so imagine the water arcing still a little higher and then how far the water shot over the kids. The reason the picture is a little "hazy" below the arc of water is the water coming down in a mist over the kids (and adults) getting wet.
The planter is on the landing going into my house - I took this picture today after church. All the flowers are really taking off. The little pot in front is my Mother's Day petunia bloom from church.
This past week I received a CD copy of Mike's CaringBridge web site - I finally remembered to let them know they could release that space in their system for another family to use. I received an email asking if I'd like a complimentary CD copy of Mike's site to which I answered yes. I put it in the laptop tonight to take a quick look. I never went back to the site after 9/26/10 when I said that was my last post but I found two friends had posted comments after 9/26. I read their posts which were both very special - thanks Sheryl L. and Bonnie S.
