The older I get the more I realize what an important influence you’ve been in my life. So for Father’s Day I decided to give you two memento boxes, both filled with special memories and things I keep close to my heart, things that you once gave me. In the first and larger box you will find just a few of my special reminders of you and times we shared together just we two.
1. A pair of shoestrings tied with a bow. These are reminders of the hours you spent teaching me to tie my own shoes so long ago.
2. A Band-Aid, to remind me of all the scrapes and cuts you fixed on my elbows and knees teaching me to ride my first bike.
3. A wee storybook, for all the special made-up bedtime stories you read to us all at night.
4. A pack of a child’s learning flash cards, a symbol of your teaching me and helping me through my years of school even when I thought I knew it all.
5. A marble. I wish it was one of the ones you gave to me and I lost, from your special ones you played with when you were in school.
6. A sewing kit and a wee sewing machine reminds me of the real ones you gave me and on which you taught me how to sew.
7. A piece from my childhood blanket that you would always cover me up with each and every night.
8. A broken heart, symbol of all the broken hearts and heartaches you helped me through.
9. A silver dollar reminds me of all the times you gave me your last dollar when you least could afford to