While Colton may not have known it was my birthday, his father did. I received roses and cupcakes, I only requested one, but he knows me all to well and brought me 12!
As everyone kept reminding me that I was half a century old, I just liked the reminder from Chad that I don't look a day older than 24!
As my special day was coming to an end, I received that last birthday phone call from my dad back in Ga, who sang me Happy Birthday. Now for any of you who have attended a Payne's Birthday you know that my dad sings way off beat and very sllllooowwww! He warned me before he began singing that he had a cold and that his singing may not be up to par, but he would sing anyways. I braced myself and tried not to laugh the entire minute and 12 seconds it took him to sing Happy Birthday! Through the coughs and side comments he would make between "Happy Birthday to You", such as "I think that tickle in my throat is messing up my singing" I realized that no matter what, my dad would always be there to sing for me, through sickness or not!
He truly is the best father a little girl could have. Yes, I still think of myself as his little girl. The little girl who still will never reveal where that $1.00 came from that I found when I was 5!
Happy Birthday to Me, a new mother to my little monkey, Happy Birthday to Meeeeeeee, Happy Birthday to ME!
loved it! and i bet he did know it was your birthday! funny how i call the house now and he said he was havign "family time" and couldnt talk and im like wait im family and he said nope you packed up and moved on :( kinda hurt my feelings but he did call me back and the precise predetermined time he told me he would! P.S. Daddy singing Happy Birthday is one of my favorite memories that I will cherish forever!
ReplyDeleteAsh, you are only a QUARTER of a century old because I am sure not half a century old plus 6 years. And if you don't call daddy often enough he will pretend he doesn't know you when you do call. I know this all too well.
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