Happy Birthday Dad!!!

So today is my dads birthday and in honour of his bday I want to say a few things about him. My dad is the strongest most caring man I know! He is a father to 6 kids, and he focuses on each of them individually as a person. He is very dedicated to his family and though sometimes he may get a little overwhelmed with all the hustle and bustle of everyone he truly enjoys those precious moments with us. My dad has a humour like I do, I often find myself just sitting with him on a evening just laughing over things he has said and vice versa. One thing I will always remember about my dad is the way he tells stories or reads them...he has this special way of reading the words on the page that is content, I remember when I was little I would beg him to read to me. And once in a while even now I will ask him to read me something. I love watching hockey with my dad its our special thing that we do together. He always seems to know what to say right in those key moments, for example I will be having a bad day and he will say, " Melissa I love you" nothing more just that and I always cherish the days when he says that. DAD YOU ROCK!!! Thanks for being there for me <3

Cheers dad, may this year be a special one!

Love you, your daughter Melissa

Hard times.....better days are around the corner......

Well its been a week of heartbreak, saturday around 11am I got a phone call from my best friend and the words she said are still etched in my memory. I remember my heart started beating like crazy and I can't remember what I said next......my best friends brother had been killed in a car accident that morning! WOW talk about the unexpected. Our families are super close, they come from a big family too and we all grew up together....they had 8 kids and we had 6 kids in our family and we were all best friends with the kid closest to our age. He was the same age as my sister Joanna. I never had someone so close to me die before, and my first instinct was to go be with my best friend and just give her the biggest hug and cry with her and just be there to listen if she wanted to talk. My parents were really good friends with her parents and they too wanted to be with them. So we spent the rest of the day just sitting with them and having coffee and crying with them. Nothing really makes sense anymore it seems. I wonder if it will ever get better...and my heart keeps breaking for them:(
So heres to some answers! And lots of love and prayers for them<3
Remember to tell those you care about you love them, you never know if you'll get the chance again.