Dad story-While they were trying to stay warm with their janitor running their furnace. My dad had to save the power lines from freezing. No, one knew there was a storm that day on, November around the 15th, of 1996. He was trying to fix the power lines, rain was coming down and when it touches an object or living object it starts to freeze that object. It went on for around 6 hours or another hour.…
When I was a baby something very bad happened to me. It started a few weeks after my dad got home from the army in Iraq. From that day on my life has never been the same. This was so unexpected that it has changed my life for ever. Even today i think back to that day and wish that my life could have stayed the same.…
“How are you cadet?” he asked. “I feel like shit, sir.” “Look Fernandez’, I know you don’t know me that well, but if you wanna talk, I’m here.” “I never thought my parents would divorce.” “Is that what’s beating you up?”…
My father left when I was three. I saw him once at age five and phone calls and birthday cards were scattered. The open ended questions, "why," and "when can I see you," never were far. When I turned eight, he sent a birthday card with a picture of his new family including his new baby girl. I believed he replaced Emily, my full sister, and me with this new family.…
I either visited him or he would come home on the weekends since my mother and I were around to care for him. I wouldn’t talk about my father in public because I always felt like people pitied me if they found out. I didn’t feel like I deserved pity. Growing up with my father made me feel strong. I felt like I could make it through anything because I had already had to put up with so much.…
Throughout my life I have always been a daddy’s girl. I would beg my dad to take me hunting, fishing, golfing, to work, and just about anywhere my dad went I wanted to go. We had a close bond until he was diagnosed with stage 3 liver and colon cancer during my senior year of high school. I was devastated by the news since the doctors had given my father about 6 months to live. To top it off, it was the first year I was able to attend a Mardi Gras ball and that year I was supposed to walk my dad out since he was a masker who rode in the organization’s parade.…
When I was little I didn 't think much of having a father. I thought some people had them and others didn 't. I never really connected that everyone was suppose to have a father. I never thought that someone was suppose to be there other than my mother. I knew that my cousin all had my uncle as a father and they were always happy. As i started to get older I started to ask my mom where my dad was.…
A challenge or obstacle I have overcome that impacted my life educational would be my parents divorce. I love both my parents with all of my heart, and when they got divorced everything changed. In the beginning my mom would get us up at five am to get us to school on time. Living an hour away from school wasn’t my ideal living situation. While my mom lived in Randall, my dad resided in St.Cloud.…
Because my dad was in the Navy, we would move a lot as he was assigned from base to base. I was born in Maine, then quickly moved to Hawaii. Being young I have just a handful of memories from these places. Later on I moved to Connecticut, in an area similar to Stryker, albeit with more hills. After the divorce I moved to Stryker with my mom and have lived here ever since.…
This past year has been extremely difficult for My family and I. Before my parent divorce began, I lived with both my parents as any student would, however, my father was a abusive alcohol, and this severely affected my childhood. As time went on our situation became worse, eventually my family and I had enough, we moved out suddenly; leaving our home we grew up in. As we discovered we had no where to go, we lived in a hotel for a week then with help from our friends we found temporary homes, however, we were separated. I was living with a close cousin and my mother and sisters were living with friends until we finally had enough saved for first and last to rent a house, as we our now out of our situation the divorce is beginning. This has…
The biggest problem that I have ever faced was my parents divorce. My mother and father split up when I was three years old. My mom gained custody of my brother and I. My mother had custody of us until I was in the second grade. This was when she decided to give up custody to my dad since she was moving to Arizona with my step father.…
Others wrote long detailed stories about their dads and how he was number one, all I could do was write “Happy Father’s Day.” I tried to imagine what my father looked like when others told how their fathers looked, was he tall, short, fat, skinny? Another question that always got to me was, why was I so caught up on not having a father? Going into middle school I was frightened. I was still…
Losing my father at a young age did not only take a toll on me, but my 3 siblings as well. Death can sometimes break a family apart, but for mine it did the opposite. A person will not understand how tough losing a parent is until it is experienced. Then again, no one knows the joy of gaining a parent either. I am strong because I have lost, and I am successful because I have gained.…
Growing up in a home where I was very sheltered from the outside world made me naive and although it protected my innocence, it hid the true colors of the world from me. Spending time with my dad allowed me to be open to a different way of life, it showed me that not everyone can always have what they want. He showed me what living in poverty was truly like, and taught me many great lessons about what the real world was like. I got to see firsthand what it was like to struggle and have the fear of not having enough money to get by. I have witnessed some things I will never forget, I realize that life does not always play out in the best of ways, but it 's what makes everyone unique.…
When I had to choose between my mother and my father I chose my mother. My father wakes up at four o’clock every morning to work out at what is essentially cross fit for middle age adults. He has completed triathlons and was in an adult baseball league until he had his accident. While up to bat for his team the follow through of his swing decided that it would defy the standards of biomechanics. His Achilles tendon tore like a piece of string cheese.…