Happy Fathers Day

     Hello to all and I hope your day is as bless as mine is...... Although I am in so much pain. I guess it can always be worse. Believe me I know. Really...
     I would like to say Happy Father's Day to all the men that are real father's. Not those that come around once in a blue and make promises he can not keep or those who abandoned their children or better yet those that feel that just because they pay child support gives them a pass of not being involve in the child's life. Money does not buy you a certificate of great Father...
    I always wanted a man like my father is . I say is because we are still bless to have him here on this earth with us. My dad is a very serious man. He is very stern, hard working and always has a no bullshit attitude. Very honest. We say very blunt. He can never lie because you see exactly was going on in his face. He wears his feelings very well ,and if he doesn't wear it, he will tell you.
  My father sounds awful to some people but, he is totally the opposite. We have the strong characteristics from him and my sister has his short temper. Something I am sure she loves...My dad before he retired was a hard working man. He raise 5 children with minimal income. My mother was a stay at home mom for a while and he worked 2 jobs at a time. My dad is not a very educated man. He left school when he was 12 years of age and back home in his country, he was old enough to work to bring money for his family. You see he was a son of 5 and his father left them. My dad had no real father in the most prime time of his life. No one to show him how to be a man and take care of his family. The sacrifices that real men do for the benefit of their families. Some how he turn out the best. So here is a 12 year old boy having to go to work to provide for his siblings and mom. He came to the USA on a working visa back in the 60's in the hopes of finding a better tomorrow for his family that he now had. At the time he had three sons and no work. He found work immediately and send money back home to his mother who in return was giving to his sons. He sometimes found work in the ice cold weather on a scaffold in the big high rise buildings in New York City cleaning windows. As well when he met my mother and decided he was having a family with her, he worked in a car washing facility in the freezing cold outside. So he always had 2 jobs. When my mother and he married, she being a immigrant as well on a student visa herself, they decided to stay and become citizens and my dad sent for his sons. This was driving him nuts the fact that he felt like his father, he felt like he abandoned his sons although it was for totally different reasons. He never just up and left and forgot them. He left to be able to provide financially for them. My brothers finally received their visa and came to the USA. By now I was about 5 years old and my little sister was born. She was a few months. It took years for my brothers to get their visa's even though my father paid a lot of money for a lawyer to take care of all the paper work. We all turn out good kids. I believe I was the most troublesome than any of my siblings.Here I am married with 4 children and 3 grandkids a dog and although I have had some not so very good things happen to me lately, I stand still on my father's sacrifices and his life and utilize them as a example of real suffering and real accomplishments. All he wanted was to raise a family and he ended up raising 2....... I love him with all that I breath and until God calls him , he will always be my first priority. For all that he was is all that I am today...I owe him the world for just being there and showing us real sacrifices and what to look for in a husband and for my brothers what it is like to be a man and take care of his family. We all call him "La Ley".... in spanish. This means the law in english. He was the sheriff in our home, the King and to me my daddy...
        In closing , to all the real Father's  have a wonderful day today and always and remember although your sacrifices may seem like nothing today, your children will appreciated later on...