Happy Father’s Day This weekend

Happy Father’s day (early)

I’m not doing my typical project list update post today as I’m just coming home from visiting a friend in Arkansas with Anja.

But I figured I’d have a little Father’s Day sale this weekend.

Pick any of my patterns and get %18 off by entering “Father” as a coupon code

Father’s day is never as big as Mother’s day it seems, what do you give DAD?? a new tie or something for the grill?

Just be nice to your dad, I’m sure he’ll appreciate that!!

My husband is a great dad to our kids, he is loving and kind and patient, doesn’t yell at the kids- isn’t that a bible verse?? (I’m the yeller in the family- or rather loud talker when the kids don’t listen to me!) He provides for us all and protects us.

Not all dads are like that….. My dad wasn’t…. he was LOVING, TOO LOVING actually… that’s why I haven’t seen or spoken to him in over 25 years and he’s never getting near my kids either! I don’t even know, if he knows I have 4 kids, I guess google can figure that out.

What he did to be in my childhood and teenage years, no girl (or child) should go thru, but statistics show that many kids actually do! and it leaves deep wounds, some never get over it! I think my biggest help in “getting over” it was my salvation, I was so broken when I moved to the US to go to college, but didn’t know it, until I got away for a while, then all the memories came flooding back, and I had started dating Dan also and had to work thru some things, but it wasn’t until I started going to church, where one night it just all hit me and I started crying and then gave my heart to the LORD…. The holy spirit/Jesus healed my broken heart and I found the best FATHER anyone could have…..I didn’t realize it then, but I really think that I wouldn’t have gotten saved if I wasn’t so broken, I was a happy Danish Atheist, I didn’t need God! So in a weird way I’m thankful for what I went thru, not that I’d want to repeat it……

My husband was physically abused by his dad and yelled at etc…..When we started dating and “comparing” stories, we thought we were great for each other because we knew what NOT TO do with our future kids, not that it’s been easy, I don’t think any marriage is easy, everyone has their ups and downs, and we’ve had help thru our church and our commitment to each other and us being Christians hopefully set a good example to our kids, we know we’re not perfect of course! His parents live 10min from us and we help them out a lot, his dad is 96 and a sweet old man now, of course he can lose his temper but I also think that’s my mother-in-law who’s not being respectful to him. Men want respect! Women want love. -another bible verse!

So give the dads in your life a hug and say you love them and show respect to them- we really should do that EVERY day!!