FOR FATHERS WE WONT HAVE ON FATHERS DAY[[not as sad as it sounds]]

[almostanangel]

just a little space to put a message for your dad if your not going to be able to give him a card this year.

Dad this is my 2nd fathers day without you
the first was last year 10 minutes after you left.
i was honered to hold your hand when you went ,but i miss you and i want to hug you and kiss you ,happy fathers day,
i never thought i would survive your death,but i have and i owe it to you ,you showed me real love and that .i know carries on with me even when your not here in person
i will plant a rose at your stone on fathers day ,but i know you are not there ...i have seen you standing leaning on the gate with your sleves rolled up smoking your old holbourn and smiling your smile ,,i miss you dad ..happy fathers day ..xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

sorry this thread came up twice i pressed it twice by accident

I don't usually like stuff like this but fancy adding to this anyway.

I never got to know you dad, but you're still in my thoughts a great deal. I don't know why but I miss you and sometimes I need you.

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what do you mean - Not as sad as it sounds? I'm in tears already.

i meant its not sad its .......ok it is then .

My darling Daddy

Its been 10 years since you left this world and
I still miss you more than you will ever know. I still have the box full of fathers day cards that I wrote but never got to give to you. Another one will be added once again this year. I just hope that you hear my words today because I mean every single one of them.....

I love you more than ever and nothing will ever fill the empty space that your passing has created in my heart. All I have left of you is a photo of you and I together. I have copied it so many times for the fear that something might happen to it.

I wish so much that I could just tell you in person that I love you. That I know you and mum hated each other, but that it didnt make any difference to me. You were and always will be my one and only father.

I would give anything just to have 5 minutes with you. To feel your strong arms around me. To hear you voice again telling me that you love me. But I know it will never happen, and that thought alone is tearing me in two.

The pain of you going has not got any easier as time has gone on. I still think about you every single day. I wonder if you are proud of me? I wonder if you think your 3 gorgeous grandchildren are as precious as I do. Please look after my other 4 babies up there with you.

I know the time we spent together was short. But the few precious memories I have I will hold close to my heart until the day we are reunited. Until then daddy sleep tight with the angels of everlasting night.

All my love forever and beyond from your little princess x x x

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To my dad, because of you I've been able to be who I wanted to be. Thank you for being both a wonderful mum and as well as a great dad to me. I know you are still here for me when I need you and I hope you will look down when your first grandchild comes in September and be proud. If its a boy we will call him after you and I hope he turns out to be even half the person you were, to have your compassion, your kindness, your bravery and your sense of humour. I love you dad. x.

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Dad it's been 9 years since that hot June morning you left us without any warning. I still don't know how I feel about the hereafter but somehow I'd like to think that you are watching over your grandchildren. I know you'd have been so proud of the way they've turned out and perhaps surprised that they've followed in your footsteps and are natural performers. Things would have been so different if you were still here xxx

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Dad, this is going to be my first fathers day without you and it breaks my heart that i will not be able to hand a card to you and for you to say to me "is this card going to make me cry". Its been 9 months now since you left us and life just has'nt been the same since, i miss coming to your house and making your lunch and listening to your music. We talk about you all the time and i have photo of you on my fireplace, when i ask Kayla where is grandad she runs over to your photo and points to you. She was only a year old when you died but we will make sure that she never forgets you.

I hope it was a comfort to you to have us with you when you passed away and to have your music playing, listening to classical music still makes me very sad. I hope you are still listening to your music.

I love you so much dad!

Happy Fathers Day xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[hugs]] for kaylas mum .

isnt it odd seeing fathers day cards in shops? this year. there are some nice plastic coated poems you can get for dads that you put on the stone.

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Dad,

Happy Fathers Day

Its now 10 yrs since you have been gone,I miss you more today than yesterday but not as much as tomorrow,you were the person that lite up my life, you were the dad any child could have longed for, everyday when i woke up i new it was going to be another happy, joyful day cause dad you were there smiling at me.

Life has been so so had without you dad and just writing this brings tears to my eyes, you would be so proud of me dad and i only wish you could have met all your grankids cause you would have enjoyed being apart of them.

Dad your grave says it on :

Do not stand and my grave and weep, I am not here i have gone to sleep.

So i will not go there i have my own place for you dad and i shall place me card and present there for you.

Godbless dad i love you xxx

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hi almostanangel,

just wanted to reply about what you said about seeing Fathers Day cards in the shops, i find it extremely difficult when i do see them, but what makes it worse is that i work on a checkout and there are so many people buying cards for their dads just now that it brings tears to my eyes when they come through my checkout. I feel so envious of these people for still having their dads, mine was very special as he raised myself and my sister on his own after my mum walked out, and kept his own business going while battling against Multiple Sclerosis. Does the pain ever go away?

I love my dad but we do rub each other up the wrong way sometimes, probably because we are so similar.
This thread has made me realise just how lucky I am to have him and I am going to make more of an effort, so thank you.
Hugs to all of you xxx

On Fathers Day it will be eight years to the day that I layed my Dad to rest. I read this at his funeral which was a celebration of his wonderful life.

I remember so well this prayer that he said,
each night as my Dad tucked me up in my bed.
This same prayer is still the best way
to sign off with God on this very sad day.

Now we ask the good Lord
your soul to keep,
as you close your weary eyes to sleep.
Feeling content that the Lord above,
will hild you securely in his great arms of love.

Having this promise that when you awake,
His angels will reach down,
Your sweet soul to take.

This perfect assuranc that whilst you sleep,
God is always right there to tenderly keep
all of his children ever safe in his care,
For God is here, he is there, he is everywhere.

So into his hands today as my dad sleeps,
we commit his soul for the good Lord to keep.

Knowing as his soul begins to take flight
my Dad will soar to a land where there is no night.

Night Night. God Bless Dad.

You are forever in my thoughts

love from your "Little Apple"

JTG. 23/3/21 - 9/6/1997

kaylas mum..no the pain doesnt go away it just hides deeper in your heart,,,,..most of the time im fine,but it has only been a year as i said ,,fathers day will be the 1st anniversary of his going....some days things hurt so bad like my dds birthdays their cards just say from nanny ...[im crying now]and thats sad ,,i miss the things that used to anoy me about him his messy hair and his smell [cigs and brylcream] i miss the kids smelling of cig smoke when they go round there and i hat the smell of cig smoke!,,,i have his baccy tin and glasses im thinking of getting them out ,,this weekend but dont think im ready yet..........i watched him die and that hurts ,,,he had a oxygen mask on and was breathing fast then just slowed down and stopped ...a nurse came in [the curtains were shut] and put her gloves on!! before she checked him ..i wanted to smash her in the face ,,its my dad i thought not a big germ...i have to stop writing i cant seee.

jays mummy thats lovely..i wrote one which i read for my dad...i wont type it all ..but it ends thank you for letting me hold your hand so tightly when i came into the world ,and for the honer of holding yours as you left.