Father’s Day 2025

Happy Father’s Day to all the guys out there who play the role of father figure in someone’s world. Here is a quickly updated Father’s Day post for that wonderful guy that I call Dad.

What a couple of years! While my mom has always tended to knock caregiving out of the ball park with a home run, my dad has never been a slacker and has always been quietly plugging away in the background, supporting my mom and our family in so many ways. During the past nearly 2 years, with all of the health challenges my mom has been experiencing, he has needed to put his caregiving for my mom in turbo mode and has done an amazing job throughout, including learning how to give at home antibiotic infusions to my mom this winter when she ended up with a horrible jaw infection!

In the midst of it all, he has continued to be a major role model in the civic arena, where he actively phone banked and helped get out the vote last fall prior to the election, as well as actively participating in using his 1st Amendment Right to protest and assemble this spring. I have even been lucky enough to participate with him a couple of times–like yesterday!

Dad, you Rock!!!!!!!!! Happy Father’s Day!!!!!

And here is the Father’s Day post I originally wrote on my other blog A Home for the Family Tree back in 2015 that still holds true today!

 

 

 

Father’s Day 2015

While my Grandpa Cooper deserves the credit for my being a water baby and my mom deserves it for my love of reading, my dad is the one responsible for the fact that I take being active, in some form or fashion, for granted.

My dad played baseball growing up, playing in high school and while attending Wayne State University. He worked for the Detroit Parks and got a degree in Physical Education. While Barb and I were in elementary and middle school, he taught PE and then middle school science in the suburban Detroit community of Livonia, coaching baseball and teaching driver’s ed. As a gym teacher, he was more interested in his students earning Presidential Fitness Awards and acquiring a love for being active, than winning the next football game. As a father of two daughters growing up after the establishment of Title IX in 1972, he made sure we had the same exposure to sports and activities he would have given sons.

He taught us to ride a bike, drive & wash a car, fish (yes, I know how to put a worm on a fishhook) and fly a kite. He played catch with us and built skating rinks in our backyard so we could ice skate and play hockey. He supported our learning to water and snow ski, take ballet and skating lessons, and play basketball.  He never had issues with our playing sports on his lawn and even used tuna cans to create a miniature golf course in our back yard. Even the dollhouse he built for us encouraged activity!

My dad has also led a very active life himself. He was a runner for 15-20 years and then when hip problems started to occur, he walked and biked with equal dedication. He played hockey and softball as an adult; was an Army reservist, downhill skier, and sailor; and even waterskied (slalom) well in to his 60s. This active man modeled a healthy lifestyle for his daughters and grandchildren and made being mobile and active a given.

For lots of pics and the original post, follow this link:

http://ahomeforthefamilytree.family/2020/06/21/happy-fathers-day-dad/

Happy Father’s Day, Dad!!!!! Love you to the Moon!!!!!!!!!!!!!