Goodbye Daddy

redrose66 /  August 10, 2015 / Poems / Life Happens

Many Milestones Walked, Many Voices Talked.

Many Paths Crossed, Many Spirits Lost.

Many Places Traveled, Many Stories Unraveled.

Many Wives Bound, Many Young Around.

Many Years of Service taken in Stride, Many Americans taking Pride.

Many Lives Encountered, Many Hearts Shattered.

Many Smiles Cared, Many Memories Shared.

Many Times I mowed your lawn Up, Many Cups of Coffee & Donuts.

Many Hours of Computer Lessons, Many Celebrations of Special Occasions.

Many Times we raised our Glasses, Many Times we laughed our Asses.

Many Health Challenges, Many Caused Damages.

Many Cures were Searched, Many Hopes of more time on Earth.

Many Treatments Had, Many Days were Sad.

Many Years of Joy, Many Cells Destroyed.

Many Times I have Prayed., Many Times he was Brave.

Many will be Glad to Know, Many Pains have ceased to Show.

Many Words Unspoken, Many Hearts now Broken.

Many Pains Felt, Many Ways Dealt.

Many Prayers Spoken, Many Tears Approaching.

Many Years now gone Alarms, Many Angels with open Arms.

Many Thanks and Praises from Above, Many Visits from White Doves.

Many will cry because he’s Gone, Many will have to remain Strong.

Many just want to say Goodbye, Many will find it difficult to Try.

Many will be Sad, Many for Love they Had.

Many will feel Reprieved, Many through all this Grief.

 Many words I can never Say, Many will Know & Feel as I do Today.

Many when they Hear these last Words if I May?

“GOODBYE DADDY, I LOVE YOU, & I WILL SEE YOU AGAIN ONE DAY”!

Love, your youngest daughter,

 Josephine Carol (Force) Rojas

 IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY FATHER,

                            

PAUL LAWRENCE FORCE, SR

August 11, 1937 – July 31, 2015

77 Years 11 Months 20 Days

Funny Things Kids Say / Do

redrose66 / June 13, 2015 / Family / Just for Laughs

 Thought I would turn my focus on to children and remembered some of the funny things that the children in my family used to say when they were very young. I came up with a few things that really stayed with me because they’re unforgettably funny to me and given that children are fun I figured I would share these with others so they can have a few smiles or even laughs.

 My eldest son would like to play with our home phone even after we would constantly tell him to leave it alone and not touch it. Well he would watch me to see if I had my direct attentions toward him as he slowly would reach his hand towards the phone. Me as I’m watching him through the corner of my eye waiting till his hand was almost on it before I say, “Leave it alone!” He would quickly retract his hand and not but a second later he reattempts. Again I spoke to him a little more abruptly this time asking him,” What are you doing?” Once again he immediately pulled his hand back. He never spoke just continued this little routine numerous times until I literally picked up the phone removing it from out of his reach and picking him up and squeezing him with hugs because he was just so cute, even though he was so stubborn. Considering he was two years old in all but the way he handled the scenario he was so patient about it, however obstinate, I just had to hug that little bear.

 Now my daughter had this strange little thing she would do with her leg. She would sit on the edge of an end table, ottoman, and coffee table no matter and would raise one knee high above her lap in a bent position and would bounce it. She would sit there in a dead stare for hours on end until I would literally move her or get her to change positions. But as soon as she would sit still again, up pops that knee and bouncy bounce bounce it goes and her eyes were just staring straight ahead expressionless at “the nothing” ahead of her.

 Sometimes my daughter would talk in her sleep having a conversation with her cousin which may or may not have been present at the time. Often the pair of them would both be asleep at the time yet would be in full conversation even though in a deep dormant sleep. It was amazing. I wish I had a recording device to recall the exact conversations because they were hilarious. Subconscious conversations between two deep sleep little girls.

 My youngest son and I went over to visit my cousin when he was about two years old. He would normally come in and greet her accordingly, but this one particular time he totally bi-passed her in his Halloween batman & cape costume and stood still quietly staring out her back sliding glass door. She called out to him and said, “Jonathan you didn’t say hello to me.” He didn’t respond. She repeats herself speaking louder, Jonathan you didn’t say hello to me.” Again he just continued his stare out the back door without a peep. She asks me, “He’s ignoring me isn’t he?” And so I called out to him trying not to laugh because I could tell he was ignoring her and thought it was funny because he was barely two years old at that time. So she gets up and taps his shoulder and tells him, “Jonathan!” He swiftly turns his head and looks directly at her and says, “I’m not Jonathan! My name is Batman!” OMG! That was the funniest thing we had ever heard! It was priceless. She picked him up and said, “Excuse me Batman but you didn’t say hello to me when you came in.” He responded, “Hello, Aunt Honey.”

  One of my niece’s was in my car in the back seat and she starts panicky saying, “The seat belt is following me!” I asked her what she meant as I was assisting the other kiddos with their seat belts at that time. She repeated herself saying it with fear in a cracking voice, “An Cow! (that’s how she would say my name), The seat belt is following me!” And she meant it, she really believed that the seat belt was following her. At that time I had a car that had front seats that would slide in a track as the door closed. But the back seats had the standard seat belt setup so hers was one of those basic ones. It was so funny but I patronized her and went to her and assured her as I checked the belt for her to make sure she was convinced that the seat belt was okay and not trying to attack her.

 The niece of mine that used to converse with my daughter as one of the night conversationalists, would sometimes describe her lap or her crotch area as her “crouch”. It took us awhile to figure that one out.

  This was a couple of things one of my nephews used to say and do that I found cute. First we went to the San Antonio Zoo and he saw the terrarium that had reptiles. He pointed at them with excitement and said, “snicks. Those are snicks!” Of course he was referring to the snakes but the way he emphasized the word “snicks” he was sincere.

 Another thing that he used to do was over express the beverage of his choice which was juice. He would tense up his body with clinched fists and pucker up his lips and push out the word “juice” from his diaphragm muscles as hard as he could and over-emphasized the “u” in the word saying it like this, “juuuuuuuice”. His face would turn beat red and often he would cough afterwards.

 My great-nephew asked me for some “cow juice”  when he was a about two years old. What he meant to say was, “milk”. He is the one that calls me “TeeTee CoCo”. He came up with that name all by himself.

 I’m sure there are more but that’s all I have for now. Feel free to comment on my blog and add a few of your own!

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