Not Your Typical Financial Portfolio

From the Front Porch

I am an "accidental blogger". When I launched my writing career in March of 2014, one of the things that I decided to include was my journaling, which I have always found to be a comforting and therapeutic endeavor. It was a big risk to open myself up in such a public forum, but it has taught me that, for the most part, we share far more experiences than we think. It's comforting to know I'm not alone! (*the "Button Text" is the link to my first novel)

Not Your Typical Financial Portfolio

6/19/2015

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My Husband & Oldest Daughter, Easter 2014

I've been trying all day to pin down in my mind THE recipe for what makes a "good" father. Naturally the first ingredient to that is love, but really that one's a gimme because unless something is very wrong, most men love their children. That love usually comes in an array of forms but it's there just the same. I could list a host of ingredients to the "great dad" mix and I'm sure many items I'd put there are ones you'd agree with. We all have pretty common traits we value, but for me the key ingredient is investment...of time, attention, and support. These are things with absolutely zero "financial" connections but MAN are they important!

The act of investing in people, period, is the most precious act of love there is. It is also, to my mind, the most important thing we ever do in this whacky, crazy life. With Father's Day coming up on Sunday, I've been looking back at the investment my husband has made in our daughter's lives. He texts them almost daily, read and played with them when they were little, taught them how to swim, and ride a bike. And mostly he showed them every single day that they mattered! He is the kind of father I ached for as a child and the one I hope for in our future sons'-in-law. As a woman, there is no better way to show his love for me than by the way he loves our children. None! He honors and respects me and our girls by the way he treats us, the payoff being that all three of us feel cherished. A simple thank you is not enough to show my gratitude but it's all I have (...except for that chainsaw you've been wanting forEVER, Sarge).

Happy Father's Day to all of the strong, wonderful men out there who choose to make the ultimate investment in the children of this world!

Love,
A.

My Husband & Both Our Girls, Outer Banks, NC 2011

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About The Author

I grew up in rural North Carolina. When I was only nineteen, I moved away and became a military wife. My only aspiration at that tender time in my life was to create an adult life that "fixed" all of the "injustices" of my childhood. Secretly, however, I wanted to reach for the sky! I wanted to be a writer and find ways to "save the world" (my mother used to say, "You have Save the World Syndrome".). Mostly, I wanted to matter.

Since then, I have learned to reach well beyond what I ever dared to think was possible. I've learned not to allow fear to stop me from whatever future I want to create!

What keeps me grounded? My Tribe! What provides the wind beneath my wings? A well of reserves filled with unstoppable passion!

From the Front Porch