Tuesday, October 18, 2011
There comes along in a person's life only a very few times, the opportunity to see true love in action. My lifetime of growing up was a chance for me to view the true love between my father Doug and my mother Greta. They both shared a vision of what they wanted for their children. While their lives together were not easy, yet they were filled with love and laughter. Short on the money side, yet our life together was long on the memories. Dad and Mum could make the strangest things into games, and before we would know it, we were having a blast and spending not a penny! Material things didn't matter for our family. Mum and Dad showed us all how to be satisfied with little, and to be thankful for what we did have. Dad could turn his hand to anything, and often the words heard immediately after 'whoops!' were "Daddy - fix!" Dad would indeed fix it and often make it better than new. Dad made his own hand lotion for the cold Quebec winters. He called it DDDDD - Doug Draper's Delectable Dew Drops. Fancy it wasn't, but effective it was. That was Dad to a T. I will miss him dreadfully, but am so thankful his pain and disability are over.
