It is with greatest ache in my heart I have to write this. Losing daddy completely in an unexpected way is unbelievably painful. He was my first love. My hero. My roommate. My savior. My reason for doing any and all the things this past year together.
He always set the bar high in the way I expected a man to treat me. I always felt safe and knew he was there if I were to fall. My daddy was the most generous man who loved his family with all his heart. He would do anything for us. He made a way for me to be an amazing single mom to Logan by letting me live rent free all the years. He never wanted me to struggle. My dad was completely self made. He got his GED only to end up as a mechanical engineer with nuclear power.
My dad was the smartest man I ever known. He was always grateful for any gift you ever bought him. His jokes were always readily available. He would joke with Blake and Tony every single day. He loved to make himself laugh and sometimes you. He always tried to ignore the bad things that were going on around him by cracking a joke. He was a protector, and if he loved you then you were under his wing of protection. Dad never met a stranger but also never hung out with anyone outside of us his crew.
My daddy was so full of knowledge and could tell you anything about everything. He was google without using google. He took the role of being a poppy to my son Logan extremely serious. He treated him as if he was his own. Logan became the son he never had. They would talk for hours or maybe just watch some YouTube together.
Any love Logan has for guns and knives came from his poppy. Logan also took on the role of protector just as his pops did. The man Logan is today is greatly impacted because of his pops. Hardworking, driven, taking care of his family, and thirsty for knowledge. This is all my dad.
