father figure.

As I was writing my blog yesterday my dad came in asking what I was doing. I explained it to him and he said, "I hope you're saying good things about me". When I informed him I wasn't writing about him at all he put on a sad face so I promised to write about him next time, promised to devote an entire blog to him. So that's what I'm doing.

It kind of makes sense that I would devote a blog to him. I've always been a daddy's girl and I look up to my dad in so many ways. He's got the classic Tempest family outlook on life which is summed up by one of his favourite sayings 'control the controllables'. If something's out of your hands, don't waste time worrying about it. That's what I love about my dad, he's so easy going.

I know people often take their families for granted and I know I may not always express my graditude or love for mine as well/often as I should, but I think about how lucky I am to have such a great family all the time. I think about it when things are going wrong because it makes me realise how fortunate I really am. My parents are the ones that if anything were to go wrong with their relationship, not only would me and my brothers be sad, but my friends would be sad about it too just because it's 'Mary and Rob'. There'd be something wrong with the world if it wasn't like that.

My dad's the kind of guy you can have really in depth conversations with one minute and find yourself quoting an adam sandler movie with the next. He's pretty cool as far as dad's go, but it's funnier when he just doesn't quite get it. Like when he refers to "dude where's my car" as "hey dude, someone stole my car" or "snoop dogg" as "snoopy puff dogg". Most importantly though, he doesn't have to say much for me to know what he means, and vice versa.

So to sum up the contents of this blog, I love my dad.