Ask Amy: Favorite grandson is the main course at dinner
You ran a question from “Conflicted,” whose father always gave her spending money whenever she went on vacation. (Conflicted’s husband was offended by it.)
In 1941, my dad was five years old when his mother passed away.
One week later, his father dumped all eight children onto the state to grow up separately — being used as farm hands at various locations across the state.
It was a lonely, abusive, and sad childhood.
When he was 13, he ended up at a home next to my mom’s farm, and the two kids fell madly in love. It really was an incredible love story.
My father spent his entire life giving everything he could to our family.
Every Mother’s Day after I became a mother, he gave me money to buy flowers for my yard and vegetables for our garden.
Every scratch ticket he won he put in a card and surprised me for no reason. Every event, every vacation, and every holiday he made extra special with all the wonderful things he did.
The void that has been left in our lives since this wonderful man died is enormous.
The legacy of his selflessness and generosity lives on, as I am my father’s daughter, and I have passed these lessons on to my own children.
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