Happy birthday Dad!

Well Dad, I thought today was going to be an awful day, but I think you had other plans.

You always made me promise that I wouldn't get upset when you were gone, or grieve too long!!! I always told you that I could never promise that because I miss you too much, and miss you I do!!  So much that even thinking about it brings that stinging pain to my eyes and heart.  I was all geared up to deal with today by filling my day with useful things rather than sitting and dwelling on those things I cannot change, but little did I know what today had in store for me.

Yesterday morning I had a call from groupon (the coupon offer company you were subscribed to) to say that the deal we had agreed for them to run in the future was in fact being run today. Yes today on your birthday!!!!!  So what does this mean for me? Well I think you and God sat down together and planned this all along. Keep me busy you thought! Keep me busy?? At this rate I'll be falling over my own feet.

Today we expect orders in excess of 200 gift baskets by taking part in this deal, so today on the day you should have turned 65, I am busy and I am not thinking about the pain too much, not becuase I am avoiding it but because life will not give me the time today and that's ok.

Dad I am taking this as a sign from you, telling me that you stand by what you said when you were hear. I am not going to sit around and think on what I have lost but spend today being thankful for my wonderful business that you were so proud of.  I learned some of my best business skills from you Dad, so here's to you! Happy Birthday to the best Dad that ever lived and who spurs me on even on the hardest of days.

I love you Dad, today is for you!!!