Author Archives: Dad

Church Golf Carts

H and K, you and I went to church today without mom and T.

T had a little bit of fever – and mom had a touch of stomach bug.

Anyway, I wanted to take a second and point out the rides we take every week in the church golf carts.

We always park in the far back lot against the west fence.

It’s a good hundred yards or so back to the church, but I enjoy the walk.

With that size parking lot, the church provides a golf cart service to shuttle people from their cars up to the nearest doors.

So as we park, there are always half a dozen retirement age volunteers roaming the lot in golf carts, looking for arriving cars.

Let me tell you: You girls live for these morning golf cart rides.

So they come to get us and we all sit wherever we happen to jump on.

H you and I have taken to sitting on the backward-facing back bench the last few times.

But here is the thing.

K, you always sit in the front passenger seat beside the driver. Always.

And you always ask half a dozen questions in the brief time you are there.

It is so cute and so sweet.

Those old men with granddaughters of their own just love talking to you.

I hope you are blessing their day half as much as you bless mine.

I love you.

-Dad

I’m Getting A Tattoo

Just kidding, haha, I am never getting a tattoo.

Maybe if they would fade away in like 12 months?

(H, we talked about all this the other day, but I wanted to codify it here for all you girls.)

On getting tattoos, you could site and argue about Leviticus 19:28:

You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the Lord.

Some would say tattoos are wrong – it’s in the Bible.

Others would say that this was the old testament – and that we don’t live under Levitical Law anymore.

There are other verses about your body being a temple (1 Corinthians 6:19-20) and not conforming to the world (Romans 12:2).

But I took another approach and mostly said it like this.

I asked:

Just looking at her, if you had to guess, which girl below looks classier?

Which girl looks below looks kind and patient and loving and gentle to you?

I'm Getting A Tattoo
I'm Getting A Tattoo

The girl on top looks like she has been through a thing or two…

She doesn’t look fancy at all.

So I will top it all off with this question:

Have you ever seen a princess with a tattoo?

The long and short of it is that most people with tattoos:

Hopefully, all this uses enough persuasion that y’all will never get one 😉.

I mean, I never got one! Mom never got one! And we’re nearly perfect.

But…if you still get a tattoo one day…that’s ok too.

I’m not giving you permission to, I would admittedly be disappointed.

But I’ll still love ya.

I love you forever.

-Dad

Sister’s Names

T, I just love how you say your sister’s names.

“Parper.”

“Ten-dall”

And, of course, your own name, “Tay – Tay.”

Y’all girls are so precious right now.

And two is just the cutest age for talking.

I love you.

-Dad