Father's day is tomorrow..

Life goes by so fast! It is already Saturday, we spent the whole day shopping: home depot kind of store, food store, clothes, coffee place, hardware store etc. blah!
I really enjoy building a deck but I'm tired of all the shopping..
But I think it's funny how Mr L. is so manly man about building stuff and brewing beer and activities of that kind. Should be easy to find him a gift for father's day.
For mother's day he got me a rcoking chair! I am so thrilled. It is SO useful for me right now. I get to sit down and stand back up so much more easily.
I can't seat too long during the day because I get distracted by the messiness so I get back up to put away things.. Before the rocking chair I would really hesitate to sit down because it was so hard to get back up. And then I would get so tired and need to lay down..
Now I can just take a few minutes break whenever, or rock a little with a nice cup of coffee :)

Life is so good.
Well once I heard a sermon about that: " Life is not beautiful. But I love life" and the priest went on to warn us (students) about "happiness". It is not the easy path. Happiness comes from freedom, chosing to make the best of the situation, the best for you but also for the world. So sometimes life is not beautiful, easy or lovely, but you can make do with it, you can be truly happy in dire circumstances.

Tomorrow is father's day and my dad is in the hospital. He has had a hard time recently and got into a crisis a few days ago, tehy had to take him to a psychiatric place. It's been almost 4 years since he last went there. This is the longest he's been out since I can remember. I don't think I'll go visit, I went yesterday and it was better than I expected, but I'll wait a few more days before I go back. He is just too fragile still and he is super happy to have visits but then he gets really impatient for us to leave so things can get back to "normal".
As I grow up I realize how much my childhood was not picture perfect, how my mom was either really courageous or really uncounscious, or maybe both.. But happiness is not to have it easy and perfect. I learned to be happy in most circumpstances because I can be thankful for the littlest things, which turn out to be the most important ones.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I am thankful for father's day.
I am thankful for my baby, for my husband who is already a great dad, taking responsabilities, taking care of me and the baby, talking to him etc.)
I am thankful for my own dad, he has limits but who doesn't?
I am thankful for my father in law who is really really nice and lovely.
I am thankful for all the fatherly figures I met along the way. especially this one priest who celebrated our wedding and who helped me see what a father God is.