Dear Daddy….

I’ve been meaning to write you this letter for a while now but I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to say or really what I need to say. So many thoughts come to my mind when I think about you. You’re my daddy, my best friend, my mentor, and you’re even my common sense at times LOL. When I tell people about you I’m always at a loss for words. Their like well describe your relationship with your dad…and I’m like where would like for me to begin. So I thought to day I’d tell you what I think about you and how much you mean to me.

Growing up you was always there for me. You never missed a basketball game, softball game, track meet, pageant, or anything that had to do with me. I use to always be so happy to look up in the stands and see you and mama there because out of everybody on my team you were one of the few dads that actually came. And not only that you would always coach my teams from the stands. “Boy did that make me feel loved”! But you didn’t just love me that way; you loved everybody on my team. All the girls looked up to you. They would call you daddy Potter. Your favorite phrase would always be, “leave it on the floor AP”.  You and mama never hesitated to welcome in one of my teammates that were having a hard time at home or didn’t have food to eat. You all would always give everything you had no matter what.

I can remember you saying to me that you would always be at my games, even if you had to work, because I was more important to you than any job you could ever have. At that time I didn’t understand why you were that way but as I got older you told me. You said to me that your daddy, my granddaddy was never there for you, he never came to your games, he never told you that he loved you; he just wasn’t a real father figure to you. And that day you looked me in my eyes said that a long time ago you promised yourself that you would be a better man than your dad was, you would love me and mama no matter what, you would tell me you love me, and you would be a Godly man in your house. I thank God every day that you were a man of your word. I don’t know where I would have been today if you hadn’t been the man in my life that I need.

You taught me how to be tough and strong, how to play every sport that I can think of, how to change a tire, and how to be an independent woman. You taught me that life isn’t just about me, I have to think about others even when it’s not convenient. You always say, don’t wear your feelings on your shoulders or somebodies always going to hurt your feelings. That’s one I had to learn the hard way, but I think I got you now.

You’re in school now and Lord knows it’s got to be hard for you, since you’ve been out for many years now but you have stuck with it. You don’t know how proud of you I am. You have been on the dean’s list almost every semester. You work really hard…..and Funny enough you do it because you simply want to provide a better future for your family. I’m said I want be there for your graduations but you know I’m going to call and send my love.

I have watched you love Mama well and because of you, the bar for my future husband has been set high. They say girls love guys who remind them of their father … well poor man….he has some big shoes to fill. You know how to put a smile on my face even when I’m mad or sad. You keep me laughing all the time. I don’t know what I would do without you…My Daddy…My rock….There are so many other things I could say about you and too you but the most important is I’m so blessed and happy to be your little girl. God couldn’t have given me a better daddy.

I’ve been meaning to write you this letter for a while now but I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to say or really what I need to say. So many thoughts come to my mind when I think about you. You’re my daddy, my best friend, my mentor, and you’re even my common sense at times LOL. When I tell people about you I’m always at a loss for words. Their like well describe your relationship with your dad…and I’m like where would like for me to begin. So I thought to day I’d tell you what I think about you and how much you mean to me.

Growing up you was always there for me. You never missed a basketball game, softball game, track meet, pageant, or anything that had to do with me. I use to always be so happy to look up in the stands and see you and mama there because out of everybody on my team you were one of the few dads that actually came. And not only that you would always coach my teams from the stands. “Boy did that make me feel loved”! But you didn’t just love me that way; you loved everybody on my team. All the girls looked up to you. They would call you daddy Potter. Your favorite phrase would always be, “leave it on the floor AP”.  You and mama never hesitated to welcome in one of my teammates that were having a hard time at home or didn’t have food to eat. You all would always give everything you had no matter what.

I can remember you saying to me that you would always be at my games, even if you had to work, because I was more important to you than any job you could ever have. At that time I didn’t understand why you were that way but as I got older you told me. You said to me that your daddy, my granddaddy was never there for you, he never came to your games, he never told you that he loved you; he just wasn’t a real father figure to you. And that day you looked me in my eyes said that a long time ago you promised yourself that you would be a better man than your dad was, you would love me and mama no matter what, you would tell me you love me, and you would be a Godly man in your house. I thank God every day that you were a man of your word. I don’t know where I would have been today if you hadn’t been the man in my life that I need.

You taught me how to be tough and strong, how to play every sport that I can think of, how to change a tire, and how to be an independent woman. You taught me that life isn’t just about me, I have to think about others even when it’s not convenient. You always say, don’t wear your feelings on your shoulders or somebodies always going to hurt your feelings. That’s one I had to learn the hard way, but I think I got you now.

You’re in school now and Lord knows it’s got to be hard for you, since you’ve been out for many years now but you have stuck with it. You don’t know how proud of you I am. You have been on the dean’s list almost every semester. You work really hard…..and Funny enough you do it because you simply want to provide a better future for your family. I’m said I want be there for your graduations but you know I’m going to call and send my love.

I have watched you love Mama well and because of you, the bar for my future husband has been set high. They say girls love guys who remind them of their father … well poor man….he has some big shoes to fill. You know how to put a smile on my face even when I’m mad or sad. You keep me laughing all the time. I don’t know what I would do without you…My Daddy…My rock….There are so many other things I could say about you and too you but the most important is I’m so blessed and happy to be your little girl. God couldn’t have given me a better daddy.