I am pretty sure I have one of the best dads in the whole wide world.

He has always believed in me ~ and helped make my dreams come true.  Even if he didn’t fully understand them, or think they were particularly good ideas.

He always made sure I was taken care of ~ in the best ways he knew how.  He still does ~ even though I’m all grown up.

My daddy was my hero as a child, and he is even more of a hero now, when I understand all the sacrifices he made to give my brother and I the lives we had growing up.

When I look around, and see all the people out there who didn’t have a dad like me, I know how incredibly lucky I am and continue to be because of who my father is as a man, and as a parent.

I will never ever be able to say thank you enough ~ for the small things, like letting me sleep on all the long drives to and from PSU for football games ~ or the big things, like rescuing me my freshman year of college … and from Chicago a few years ago.

This is just a very small thank you on a very small stage to my daddy, for being the best dad out there, and one of the best men I have ever known.  xoxo.

Thank you, from the very bottom of my heart.

Love, Mouse.