I forgot to mention one thing about being gone on my two trips.
Apparently, it was soooo traumatic on you, T, that what I was gone…
You said your first sentence!
Mom said you were asking about me.
Apparently, you were wondering around the house with a little inflection in your voice saying:
My dada? My dada?
I’m so sorry I left you!
You sure smiled big when I called you on the phone.
I love you forever.
I love you.
-Dad
I am going to stop saying how bad I am at keeping up this blog.
I am.
No need to beat a dead horse, but ugggggggggh.
I skip a day – and then it’s five days. And suddenly it’s two weeks.
Anyway, all the work training I have been doing, I took two trips the last couple of weeks.
I went to farmer meetings in San Angelo the first week.
It was a good trip, but I sure did miss you girls. We met with cotton growers in old and dusty dinners and steakhouses. I ate so much steak I thought I might explode before it was over.
Two of my favorite places were the Lowake Steak House (in Rowena, TX) and Mereta Cafe (in Mereta, TX). We stayed at the Home 2 Suites in San Angelo and spent all of our in-between time driving around looking at cotton.
I came home that Thursday, spent Friday and the weekend at home, and then left for Corpus Christi for an entire week.
Honestly, the Corpus trip was a lot like the San Angelo trip, only with fewer grower meetings. About 50% of this trip was driving around and looking at cotton and the other 50% was going over billing and contracts back at the office.
One day we drove up to Kennedy (Kennedy, TX) to look at one of our warehouses there. I got to meet the guys working there, we all went to lunch, and we even got to watch a few trucks load some of the last bales of the season.
During the trip, I stayed at the Hyatt Place (the one we have all stayed at before). There is a Saltgrass Steakhouse in the parking lot of the hotel, and I ate dinner there nearly every night.
I flew home that Friday.
And – well – that was too long to be gone.
I love you.
-Dad
K mamacita,
You were so sweet to me today.
T got sick this morning and threw up, so I took you and H to church and Sunday school.
Afterwards, I took y’all to Whataburger for lunch where we all got chicken baskets.
We brought mom home a cheeseburger and then all went for a walk after we gathered ourselves.
We walked to the “yellow park” around the corner.
Anyway.
You asked me to push you on the swing when we arrived. I did and you requested that I sing while pushed.
You specifically asked for Amazing Grace, and I Believe I Can Fly (by R. Kelly). Ha!
As I pushed, you told how glad you were that you got me as a daddy.
You said that you loved me so much, and that you were thankful I was so kind and patient and loving to you.
I’m not sure what I did to deserve the deluge of compliments – but I’ll take them!
Later, you and H were fighting and I took you on a drive to separate y’all (you were just tired).
We stopped at Menchies and ate frozen yogurt: Vanilla ice cream, no toppings.
You fell asleep on the way home as I held your hand.
Later you were feeling so partial to me, you sat in my lap for half of dinner.
I love you.
-Dad