What are you grateful for this father's day?

This Father's Day, I had a number of things to be grateful for. One reasons was that my father and I were repairing our relationship. We had a falling out last year before my wedding and it hurt very much, but I chose to forgive him. With that, we are in a much better space than we were last year.

Another reason I was grateful this Father's Day is because my daughter got to celebrate her father on his first Father's Day. She was only six months at the time, but I helped her with cooking dinner and baking for my husband and saying it was from her.

I am grateful to my father. I celebrated this Father’s Day by sending him a pan of brownies because that has become our tradition. He loves brownies with walnuts in them. Since I live out of town, I mail him his package of brownies and a Father’s Day card. I also send my stepmother something in the package, so that she has something to open too even though it is Father’s Day.

Some people don’t have fathers because they died when the children were young. The holiday must be painful for them and I feel sorry for them and hope that they don’t feel bad. However, it makes me more grateful to have my father in my life. We usually bowl too since he likes that if I am in town on Father’s Day.